Gary Muszynski

CEO and Chief Orchestrator

Gary is an award-winning musician-composer-producer and a pioneer of personal and organizational transformation who bridges the worlds of business, the arts, education, and well-being. He is a leadership coach, a team-building catalyst, a designer and facilitator of multi-sensory learning experiences, and a TEDx presenter. Gary is influenced by neuroscience research and how it can be applied to learning, collaboration, and creativity. He is the founder of Orchestrating Excellence, a global firm that blends music with other creative engagement experiences to cultivate emotional/social intelligence in leaders and greater harmony across teams and organizations. Clients include Apple, Pixar, Cisco, Disney, Deloitte, Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, the Wold Bank, XeroxPARC, Genentech, Fast Company, U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the North Dakota Correctional System.

Gary Muszynski Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$20,001 - $30,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
California, USA

Gary Muszynski Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$20,001 - $30,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
California, USA

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Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Orchestrating Change (3 to 4 hour workshop)

This workshop uses Afro-Brazilian percussion to form an adaptive, high performing samba percussion orchestra. In this workshop, we empower a group to accomplish a seemingly impossible task: forming a semi-professional sounding orchestra in an impossibly short period of time. ...

This workshop uses Afro-Brazilian percussion to form an adaptive, high performing samba percussion orchestra. In this workshop, we empower a group to accomplish a seemingly impossible task: forming a semi-professional sounding orchestra in an impossibly short period of time. Once they achieve this huge transformation in mindset and performance, we guide them in applying the lessons learned to their work. What else might they accomplish given a shared mindset combined with resonant leadership, collaboration, and connection.

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Working in Concert: Aligning teams and amplifying collaboration

This program can be designed as either a keynote or a fully immersive workshop using lighter and easier to learn percussion compared with the above mentioned flagship program. It can be delivered for a lower fee with fewer supporting personnel and can be scaled to more than 2,...

This program can be designed as either a keynote or a fully immersive workshop using lighter and easier to learn percussion compared with the above mentioned flagship program. It can be delivered for a lower fee with fewer supporting personnel and can be scaled to more than 2,500 people.

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Transforming mindsets and Harmonizing Teams: a musical perspective

Similar to Working In Concert, but customized for HR, Ops, IT, leadership and cross-functional teams. This design can also be used for groups from different companies, i.e., trade associations.

Creating an improvisational mindset for disruptive times (60 to 90 minutes)

This is a mix and match design specifically designed for helping audiences to adopt an improvisational mindset important for the disruptive (AI) times we live in. We think that this kind of experience should open any conference on AI.

About Keynote Speaker Gary Muszynski

Gary is an award-winning musician-composer-producer and a pioneer of personal and organizational transformation who bridges the worlds of business, the arts, education, and well-being. He is a leadership coach, a team-building catalyst, a designer and facilitator of multi-sensory learning experiences, and a two-time TEDx presenter.

Gary is influenced by neuroscience research and how it can be applied to learning, collaboration, and creativity. He is the founder of Orchestrating Excellence, a global firm that combines music with other creative engagement experiences to cultivate emotional/social intelligence in leaders and greater harmony across teams and organizations.

Gary has presented workshops, activations, and immersive keynotes to more than 200,000 organizational leaders on five continents over the past three decades. Clients include Apple, Pixar, Cisco, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Xerox PARC, Google, Chase, Genentech, Fast Company, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Deloitte, McKesson, and the North Dakota Correctional System.

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As a musician and producer, Gary has performed or recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Afro-Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, classical Hindustani bansuri (flute) master Deepak Ram, and raga-meets-jazz scatting vocalist Varijashree Venugopal among many other musical luminaries from 16 countries.

Gary’s last two albums, Roots & Wings and The Journey Home, won the coveted gold medal at the prestigious Global Music Awards in 2021 and 2024.