Tonight I feel immensely privileged to have been invited to attend a QUT Alumni meeting at the Canberra office of the School of Business.

At this meeting was a performance/presentation by Creative Leaps a non-profit organisation from the USA. Their multi-disciplinary team focus on using the arts to generate ways of thinking creatively to support better leadership and management. The presentation, called a Concert of Ideas, is described on the website as:

music, poetry, theater, storytelling, virtuosic performance and imaginative dialogue across the footlights. It is Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man”, Bernstein’s Finale to CANDIDE, Broadway classics and original compositions performed live and weaving through ideas and stories from Einstein, Picasso, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Margaret Mead, James Baldwin, Richard Feynman, Langston Hughes and more — all blended and sequenced to set the mind in motion and help participants access multiple creative connections, deeper personal insights and rich new…