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Carl Størmer (pronounced "Sturmer") is a popular public speaker and the founding prinicipal of   JazzCode Inc. , a consulting and entertainment firm specializing in improvisational collaboration and communication in high-performance teams.  JazzCode offers a two day class in structured communication and a 60-90 minute performance with musicians showing how jazz musicians collaborate in real-time, called the JazzCode.  JazzCode has been performed with leading musicians for large and small groups at IBM, KPMG, Krafts Food, Oracle, Statoil-Hydro, Telenor, McKinsey & Company, Schibsted, Insead Advanced Management Program, London Business School AMP, DnBNor Bank, Cap-Gemini and others.

Before he started JazzCode Carl was the Sr. VP of marketing at Norwegian Airshuttle, one of  Europes largest low-cost carriers which he helped take public.   Carl was the Executive vice president and founder of StudentUniverse Inc., the leading U.S. online student travel agency.  Before founding StudentUniverse, Carl worked as a senior strategy consultant for IBM Global Services.  Mr. Stormer spent four years as a database designer in New York, founded "the Real Thing", Norways most popular jazz groups and worked as a professional jazz musician in New  York and Norway for many years.

Carl holds two Masters degrees -- in business from Columbia University, in music from Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelor of music degree from prestigious New England Conservatory of Music.  Post graduate studies at IBM and Harvard University. 

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Blurb about the JazzCode Live program:

How do you enhance the productivity of professional teams when every day is different? Teams must often perform in real-time without time to rehearse.Traditional planning is being replaced by complex interactions driven by a highly dynamic context.  Rather than the product or service being a result of our conversations; our conversations is the product or service we offer, and this requires a new mode of operation, one where being fully immersed in the moment is more important than having all the answers. 

Jazz musicians have developed their own code, in order to reduce the need for rehearsals, to enhance interaction and embed renewal into the ever shifting ensembles of professional jazz.  In his performance, Carl Stormer will -- together with some of the best jazz musicians available -- explain the JazzCode and how it relates to work in professional teams.