Workplace Jazz: 9 Steps to Creating High-Performing Agile Project Teams - Paperback

by Gerald J. Leonard (Author)

In Workplace Jazz, the author raises a battle cry for individual and corporate responsibility in building cultures that are healthier and more productive for those working in them.

What should leaders do to address this workforce engagement and productivity gap? Should companies keep implementing culture improvement processes and procedures that do not address the emotional connection that teams need?

Workplace Jazz offers a step-by-step process, enhanced with stories, neuroscience research, case studies, metaphors, and a strategic blueprint for developing connected and high-performing project teams based on the author's experiences as a professional musician, certified conversational intelligence coach, and certified business consultant.

Author Biography

Gerald J. Leonard is currently the CEO of Principles of Execution, a certified MBE dba Turnberry Premiere, and is a strategic project portfolio management and IT governance firm based in the metro Washington, DC, area. Gerald attended Central State University in Ohio, where he received a bachelor's in music and later earned a master's in music from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. During the last 20+ years, Gerald has worked as an IT project management consultant and earned his PfMP, PMP, MCSE, and a certification in conversational intelligence (C-IQ) coaching. He has acquired certifications in project management and business intelligence from the University of California, Berkeley; theory of constraints portfolio management from the Goldratt Institute, executive leadership from Cornell University; and The Wharton School: Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program. To learn more, visit www.geraldjleonard.com