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IESE Business School - Orpheus Leadership Institute
Leadership teams elevate both performance and engagement across their organizations through live observation, dialogue and expert facilitation.
Shared Leadership In Action
IESE Business School is committed to developing leaders who create impact by developing people and cultivating collaboration and purpose-driven action. Together, with Orpheus, this collaborative workshop offers a transformative experience designed specifically for senior leadership and management teams seeking not only stronger business outcomes—but more meaningful, flexible and human-centered ways of working.
Orpheus offers a powerful example of shared leadership in action. As organizations strive for greater agility and alignment in a rapidly changing world, this immersive workshop invites leaders and teams to reflect on purpose and the quality of their collaboration and shared vision. Renowned for performing, rehearsing and recording entirely without a conductor, Orpheus relies on a democratic, participatory model. This structure highlights the value of shared responsibility, active listening, feedback, adaptability and collective decision-making, making it a compelling case study in modern leadership and team dynamics.
Explore The Program
Learn more about IESE-Orpheus Leadership Institute and view our full program brochure.
What You'll Learn
Experience Orpheus’ unique conductorless model through a live rehearsal and guided observation. Reflect on how shared leadership and collective intelligence can be applied in your own organizations. Explore how to build cultures of trust, agility, flexibility and mutual accountability within high-performing teams.
This experience helps leadership teams elevate both performance and engagement across their organizations. Through live observation, dialogue and expert facilitation, you will:
- Discover how shared leadership fuels agility, innovation and high-functioning collaboration.
- Experience the power of active listening and mutual accountability in real time.
- Learn how to lead through vision and shared values—not hierarchy.
- Examine frameworks for evolving from directive to participatory leadership styles.
- Understand how to foster trust, co-ownership, learning and creative alignment within your teams.
- Explore how the democratic approach of Orpheus can inspire your organization’s leadership culture.
Before and after the session with the orchestra, Professor John Almandoz from the Department of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School, will provide a leadership framework connecting the Orpheus model to your company’s strategy, culture and leadership development journey.
The Orpheus workshop was a powerful reminder that impactful leadership is not defined by authority, but by our ability to collaborate and truly understand the rhythm of those we serve. It was a privilege for our leadership team to experience the courage to co-create, the wisdom to listen and the grace to lead with or without a baton.Rocio Del Carpio, VP Global Talent, Leadership & Organizational Development Global People, Culture & Communications Suntory Global Spirits
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Methodology
A half-day immersive workshop facilitated by IESE faculty and tailored to your organization’s particular experience, challenges and strategy.
Includes the observation of a live orchestra rehearsal followed by a structured debrief and leadership discussion. Participants witness high-performing collaboration in action and reflect on parallels with their own leadership practice.
An inspirational fireside chat with a top leader about values-driven leadership based on collaboration, active listening and shared values.
Not every leader needs a baton. Just a shared purpose.
Traditionally, orchestras are led by a conductor who decides what they will play, who will play and how they will play.
In Orpheus there’s no single conductor who owns the creativity and leadership.
Every single musician is fully empowered. Everyone owns the artistic vision. Everyone rotates in and out of roles. Everyone is a leader all the time.
Rather than following one person’s direction, the musicians tune into and respond to each other in the moment as they are playing.
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