With a career spanning more than 25 years, British jazz musician Eddie Severn is an internationally recognized performing artist and composer. He has performed with numerous well-known musicians and groups notably saxophonists Phil Woods and Dave Liebman, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Temptations. Eddie holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Salford in Manchester, and has held teaching positions at the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music England, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He has recently begun to take his extensive experience as a performer and educator in the world of music to teach leadership and management skills to business and community leaders. In this talk he defines the parallels between the seemingly disparate worlds of business and music.

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