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Welcome to the November 2006 edition of Key Inspirations with Kevin Asbjornson, MIM, Leadership and Performance consultant, keynote inspirational speaker and performing artist. Thank you for subscribing!
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Artistry of Leadership Integrated into Center for Creative Leadership’s HR Professionals Leadership Program
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Kevin Asbjornson, MIM, Contributing to Global Community Advancing Creativity in Business
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World Business Forum Executive Leadership Survey Confirms Need for Inspired Leadership
“In the year since the survey, the ascension of inspired leadership as a coveted corporate asset has continued,” Kevin Asbjornson, MIM, says. “But it’s one thing to buy into the concept. It’s another to put it into practice, and that’s where most business and organizations fall short. Artistry of Leadership gives executives the capacity to inspire others in ways that can be implemented easily and immediately.” The World Business Forum is an annual colloquy of top executives, thinkers, and business decision makers from all sectors of industry. To download a copy of the survey results, click here. To inquire about booking Kevin Asbjornson, MIM and Artistry of Leadership for your event, click here. |
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Kevin Asbjornson’s Music Now Available on iTunes®
iTunes, the world’s most popular online music source, now offers for purchase and download selected recordings of Kevin Asbjornson’s original contemporary piano solos. The three recordings currently available come from the Acoustitherapy CD collection of contemporary music featuring acoustic piano, harp, guitar, flute, and cello. In the near future, all of Kevin’s recordings from his own CDs (Collage, Inner Voices, and Awakenings) will be available at iTunes. To visit iTunes, click here. In addition, it is now easier than ever to sample Kevin’s music on his website. To visit the enhanced Music of Kevin Asbjörnson section of the site and listen to selected tracks from Kevin’s CDs, click here. Kevin Asbjornson’s DVD portfolio, featuring a Telly award-winning, high-definition film about Artistry of Leadership®, is now available. The DVD includes information about Kevin’s groundbreaking work on creative leadership, his clients, testimonials and three complimentary recordings from his CDs of contemporary piano solos. To order a complimentary copy of the DVD at Kevin’s website, click here.
Kevin's music enhances individual and classroom learning, attention and focus, and creates an ideal ambiance for relaxation, concentration and insight. Kevin’s CDs are an excellent choice by parents, teachers, physicians, coaches, trainers, and facilitators who understand the positive impact of music in their workplace, home, and automobile environments. Let Kevin’s music be a transporting counter-balance to the cacophony of daily life. Ideal for gift giving! Selected recordings of Kevin’s original contemporary piano solos from the Acoustitherapy CD collection are available for purchase and download online on iTunes. To visit iTunes, click here.
A 3-CD gift pack of his original contemporary piano solos, as well as the Acoustitherapy collection of CDs featuring recordings from Kevin and other acoustic instrumental artists, can be purchased with a credit card or check through the toll-free and online ordering services of Colorado Creative Music. To place an order for any PianoOne CD, please call 1-800-730-5959 or visit www.PianoOne.com and select "CD Reviews & Ordering." To preview Kevin's calendar of appearances, please click here. If you know a friend, family member, colleague or client who would appreciate receiving Key Inspirations, please direct them to www.PianoOne.com. We diligently respect the Internet Protocol of Personal Choice. If this Key Inspirations subscription has reached you by mistake, or you would like to discontinue your subscription, please use the safe unsubscribe below. Thank you for your support of contemporary piano and acoustic instrumental music. |
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Key Inspiration for the Day: Creativity is a strategy that drives business performance. Fallon Worldwide is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative advertising agencies of the past 25 years. In their book Juicing the Orange – How to Turn Creativity Into a Powerful Business Advantage (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), founders Pat Fallon and Fred Senn attribute the company’s success to what they call “creative leverage, the daily practice of making creativity actionable and accountable for business results.” These corporate leaders recognized long ago the business value of treating creativity not as an ethereal ideal but as a core business strategy. This is the essence of Artistry of Leadership – Creating Meaningful Connections, Kevin Asbjornson’s leadership and performance experience. Through his original music and perspective as a performing artist, Kevin reveals to business leaders their own creative powers and how they can be leveraged to inspire the intrinsic motivation and creativity of others. The result is innovation that drives business performance. For more information about Juicing the Orange, 
Kevin Asbjornson’s Leadership and Performance experience Artistry of Leadership - Creating Meaningful Connections has been added to the Leadership Development for Human Resources Professionals curriculum at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). The program prepares HR executives to become more effective leaders of people and processes, focusing on self-awareness, proven methods of building leadership skills, and ways to positively impact their organization's business strategy. Artistry of Leadership gives program participants a unique, interactive experience in Performing Arts-based Learning that awakens their creative competencies and ability to inspire, imagine and innovate. Kevin serves as Senior Adjunct Faculty and Performing Artist in Residence at the CCL. Earlier this year the CCL was ranked among the overall Top 5 providers of executive education worldwide in a survey by the Financial Times. For more information about Leadership Development for HR Professionals at CCL, 
Kevin Asbjornson, MIM, is now a member of the Creative Skills Training Council/Asia Pacific & Australia (CSTC), an on-line community of creative practitioners, including business executives, academics, designers, artists, and behavioral and cognitive scientists, involved in advancing the practice of creative skills training in business, organizations and government through arts-based processes and creativity tools and systems. “It is invigorating to be associated with a global peer group of thought leaders who share my vision of creativity as a prime driver of business performance,” Kevin says. “Collectively we are building a body of knowledge and practices that translate into real innovation for business.” For more information about CSTC, 
The ability to inspire people with a compelling vision of the future was cited by attendees of the 2005 World Business Forum as the most important leadership capability, even more important that developing organizational talent and providing strategic direction. 
