Jammin Sessions

Jeff Prouty was inspired by John Kao, author of Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity, when the idea for Jammin Sessions was realized 22 years ago. Prouty read the book and heard the Harvard Business School professor speak at a conference. Here’s an excerpt from a Publishers Weekly review of Kao’s book:

“It took a Chinese American student listening to jazz and jamming with a group of African Americans at a private boarding school to internalize the polar tensions between musical score and improvisation and come up with a formula for creativity. Kao, now a professor at Harvard Business School, has been using the jamming metaphor to teach creative entrepreneurship for 14 years. In business, the score is not a musical theme but an idea, process or question that takes on new dimensions when bandied about by a group. This business version of jamming, Kao says, is the creative advantage that can give a company a competitive edge.”

Since then, The Prouty Project has hosted 10 “jams” a year on topics addressing virtually every aspect of business and life — topics that draw 10-year-old kids to 92-year-old grandparents and all ages in between to participate in energizing and thought-provoking discussions.

Keynote Addresses

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Our professional speaking topics range from human centered design to the hero’s journey; from audacious goals to blue ocean strategies; from mission-vision-values work to board assessment and development; from organizational readiness to cross-cultural communication; and from team effectiveness to the power of creativity.

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