IESE Business School and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra have announced a new partnership to deliver a collaborative executive training initiative through the IESE–Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Leadership Institute.

The program aims to combine IESE’s organizational development framework with Orpheus’s conductorless rehearsal model in order to offer business leaders a hands-on approach to shared leadership.

The workshop will be co-led by John Almandoz, Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE, and Alexander Scheirle, Executive Director of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Participants will get a chance to take note of Orpheus’s democratic artistic process and engage in facilitated discussions on translating the ensemble’s principles—active listening, shared ownership, and distributed accountability—into corporate management structures.

Orpheus Leadership Institute has previously worked with a range of companies, from small businesses to Fortune 500 firms, emphasizing how human-centered, agile practices can positively influence performance outcomes.

“Orpheus shows us what it means to truly listen—to music, to each other, and to the shared vision that unites a team,” said Scheirle, per an official press release.

“They display another leadership model which is often better for people, organizations, and society,” Almandoz added.

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