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Make music, make better companies

The Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, led by Ian Woodward, helps corporate clients assess their roles as managers and team players.

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Helmi Yusof

Helmi Yusof

Published Mon, Apr 27, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    CAN a professional orchestra teach corporate managers the finer points of leadership and communication?

    The Metropolitan Festival Orchestra (MFO), led by its associate conductor Ian Woodward, proves that it certainly can.

    The Sounds of Leadership course is a unique and much-lauded corporate training workshop created and copyrighted by Prof Woodward who is both a trained musician and the director of Insead's Advanced Management Programme.

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