![]() The course was the brainchild of Harry L. My focus, of course, was very much about how we can use music as a lens for growing ourselves in our teams and organizations as leaders.” “This whole idea is that we as leaders can look at leadership not in the old, dry, textbook way, but as a creative, experiential activity. “It’s all through the lens of leadership as a performance art,” said Kohler. Stephen Kohler, MBA’02, a leadership coach and lifelong amateur musician who led the session that day in Spring Quarter, describes Leadership Studio as a new kind of course, in which students dig deep through rehearsals and hands-on lessons to discover their own leadership skills. It was showtime in the Leadership Studio course, one of three new leadership courses the Booth School of Business introduced in the 2019-2020 school year, and one of the most unique classroom experiences at a leading business school. The students were ready to shake, strum, jingle, drum and clap their way through the lesson, staring down their stage fright and prepared to get a little musical in their quests to become better leaders. Instead, one by one, they shared their homemade instruments-whimsical improvisations that included a glass jar packed with pennies, a xylophone made from silverware and a set of wine glasses filled to play different pitches. But they didn’t turn in the usual slide decks or Excel analyses. One day earlier this year, a dozen or so Chicago Booth students logged in to their virtual classroom and presented their assigned homework.
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