Miha Pogacnik Speaking Fee, Schedule, Bio & Contact Details

Miha Pogacnik

Creative Leadership Expert, Violinist & Visionary

Miha Pogacnik

Biography

Miha Pogacnik
Classical Concert Violinist and Cultural Ambassador of Slovenia
Inspiring Leaders, Igniting Change, Evoking Creativity and Spurring Innovation .

" Through his consummate violin artistry and his deep appreciation of the human journey, he is able to take his audiences into their own experience with change and transformation He creates a spell that allows us to go more deeply into ourselves, and from those depths extract new levels of awareness and capacity." Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science and co-author of A Simpler Way

Miha Pogacnik (Po-gah-chnik) offers an original response to today's quest of the business world for creativity. His cutting edge approach and genius fuel organizational and individual development in an inimitable way. He uses live performing to shed new perspectives on corporate strategy. This involves taking a musical masterpiece apart, exploring it and at the end, putting it together again.

Miha, renowned for setting the world standard in "Art and Business":

has exceptional capacity to inspire business leaders to "think out of the box";
helps teams intensify the spirit of innovation -- leading them towards new ways of listening to themselves and to others, by tapping the pathways of their intellect and emotion;
uses music to enhance understanding of the most pressing demands of business, ranging from the search for excellence and quality, to problem-solving, leadership and development;
demonstrates that art is a significant force for productivity, creativity, and organizational renewal.

Miha has worked with scores of leading companies, such as Ericsson, Shell, IBM, Hewlett and Packard, Saatchi & Saatchi, Whirlpool, Skandia Insurance, ABN Amro Bank, Nike, Body Shop and others. He has addressed the World Business Academy, World Economic Forum/Davos, and agencies of the United Nations.

As President of the Institute for Development of Intercultural Relations through the Arts (IDRIART), he has directed an innovative interdisciplinary international event, the "Annual Business and Art Conference", in Castle Borl-Ankenstein, Slovenia since 1998, and over 180 intercultural festivals around the world.

Miha works in English, German and Slovene.

Thank you again, Miha, for your wonderful presentation of transformational relationship musical masterpieces can have on organizational development. This resonates deeply with our striving for excellence and inspiration here at Porsche.

Porsche

Gobbi Foundation

Hearing Miha Pogacnik is so "AT ONE" with his violin, it is sheer joy to listen to his commentary and hear the profound sounds that he evokes from that magnificent instrumen . . . it is an extension of his very being!

Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals

The approach Pogacnik recommends is useful in certain aspects of running a business, because it helps people see there are different ways to solve problems. It changes attitudes. Pogacnik's theory seems to get to the core of things, the driving force.

Deutsche Telekom

Through his consummate violin artistry and his deep appreciation of the human journey, he is able to take his audiences into their own experience with change and transformation. He creates a spell that allows us to go more deeply into ourselves . . .

author of Leadership and the New Science and co-author of A Simpler Way

Miha, I thought your method was fascinating. Using the Bach fugue to illustrate in sound the development of individuals--and by extension, of organisations too--threw up a new set of insights for all of us. Thank you--and your visual art was vivid as well!

Arts Council England

Listening to your violin . . . was a magical moment--it stirred my blood and moved my stomach--and my heart, of course. Miha, you make magic with your music and you have truly helped me listen with more understanding, not only to music but to people too.

co-founder of London Business School, social philosopher, best-selling author

A great way to help management and leaders to learn to actively listen! Miha was passionate, instructive and really opened up the audience.

ABN Amro Bank

Miha, you are truly a friend whom I never forget, especially your presentation in Budapest.

Apple Computer Inc.

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