Music Thinking Book
Learn leadership and co-creation tools for personal development, strategy and teamwork. Including templates, playlists, and exercises.
Jam Cards
An inspirational card set in a beautiful box the size of a 45 rpm single record
Use them in ideation sessions or on-boarding rituals. Scan the cards to hear a sound.
Courses Overview
Learn about future leadership skills and mindset
How do you co-create your company purpose, tell the story of your purpose, make the first step with your brand story, and more?
Podcast
The Power of Music Thinking
Creative Companion Christof Zürn takes you inside the minds of some of the world’s most exciting people AND Musicians’.
Blog & News
Here we share updates about workshops, programmes, new templates, tips and tricks and you can read all the 38 stories from ‘Behind the Cards’ – the background thoughts about every inspiration card of the Music Thinking Jam Cards.check out the blog page
Science, Music and Regulating Emotions with Hauke Egermann
What can people and organisations learn from science and music? Why should we care? Are universal mechanisms valid all over the world to all human species? Or is everything an individual experience? How does regulating emotions work? Today, we talk with Hauke Egermann, Professor of Systematical Musicology at the University of Cologne. We speak about universal […]
Everything about Orchestration with Robin Hoffmann
A few episodes ago, I asked the question What is Orchestration? This was because I saw a lot of different orchestrators, nota bene, non-musical orchestrators with job titles like Design Orchestrator, Value Network Orchestrator, Data Orchestrator and Innovation Orchestrator, just to name a few. It is a long list that combines one field, like Design […]
Inspiring Books on Music Thinking
Let’s talk about books today. What was the last book that inspired you? Was it a novel, a non-fiction book, a design book, a music book or a cookbook? In this episode, I share three books that inspired my sound way of thinking, experiencing the world with an open ear and what has led to […]
Sonic Branding with Willemijn van Hussen
Welcome to a new year of The Power of Music Thinking. This is our first episode of the year, and today, we are diving deep into how sound can make a difference for brands. We speak with Willemijn van Hussen – a trained concert pianist, strategy consultant – co-founder and owner of Sonic Branding agency […]
Listen a bit louder and longer – Happy Epiphany 2025
This is my epiphany story for 2025, January 6th. Tip: For an enhanced experience, listen to the sound while reading the story slowly. Epiphany Story 2025 It was hot. Maybe the hottest day in July. Far above 30 degrees Celsius. I have my recording equipment with me and hold the stereo microphone in my right […]
The role of emotions and rationality in research with Leonoor Opstelten
The circle is round, not only because this is the last episode of the year, but also because we started this year with a young researcher’s science and music dialogue and her approach to translating research into a poem and live music – or in other words combining rationality with emotions. We end this year […]
From Thinking Music to Music Thinking
Christof Zürn talks about music thinking, the music thinking framework, and JAMMIN’ before SCORE and what this means in the context of co-creation in business. But, how does this sound? It sounds marvellous; we hear a lot of musical excerpts from the new (digital) album of MRZ – an ambient improvisation trio. “To reward attention, […]