InspireImagineInnovate! is pleased to announce the 20th Anniversary of our production of the high-definition film, The Artistry of Leadership-Creating Meaningful Connections™!

Our creative and production team of 100% Colorado natives and residents filmed The Artistry of Leadership video at a keynote inspirational event held at the King Center for Performing Arts-Auraria Campus. This production earned an International Gold Telly Award which honors excellence in video and television—as it featured the original, contemporary piano music of Yamaha® Artist Kevin Asbjörnson and his Eight Keys to Inspired Leadership™ model that he used to facilitate the event.
The Artistry of Leadership-Creating Meaningful Connections™ was also honored by the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) as an Innovation Award Finalist in 2006.
According to an article from Harvard Business Review—genius, as Thomas A. Edison famously declared, may be 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. But building a company employees truly love reverses the equation: it’s almost all inspiration, and sweat has only a little to do with it. This is the unexpected conclusion of published research from Bain & Company, conducted in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
In the research, Bain & Company surveyed over 300 senior executives from companies all over the world, asking them to assess, based on their impressions of employee output, the relative productivity of dissatisfied, satisfied, engaged, and inspired employees. The results point to the productive power of an engaged and inspired workforce. If satisfied employees are productive at an index level of 100, then engaged employees produce at 144, nearly half again as much. But then comes the real kicker: inspired employees score 225 on this scale. From a purely quantitative perspective, in other words, it would take two and a quarter satisfied employees to generate the same output as one inspired employee.
Kevin Asbjörnson is recognized internationally for his groundbreaking contribution to bringing the worlds of performing arts and leadership development together into a professional development workshop—which helps to derive inspiration and develop the emotional intelligence (EQ) of managers and leaders. Kevin’s library of original, contemporary piano solos accompanying the event can be found on Pandora, Spotify, Apple iTunes, Amazon Music, Jango and You-Tube Music.
According to Asbjörnson, Founder & Managing Director of The Institute of Inspired Leadership: “Our development of The Artistry of Leadership-Creating Meaningful Connections™ was leading -edge in 2005 and is even more relevant today in 2025, as our world and global economy is in dire need of a leadership renaissance to address the multidimensional and interconnected realities of the 21st century.”
“Inspired Leadership recognizes the eminent need for a human-centric model of engaging and preparing managers, leaders, and contributors for our new world of life and work — a model which embraces our delicate co-existence as responsible, accountable, and mutually respectful global citizens and fortifies our abilities to work together for the advancement of all,” he added.
Asbjörnson has performed and facilitated The Artistry of Leadership-Creating Meaningful Connections™ around the world at world renowned venues including performing art centers and conference centers, serving clients that include NASA Goddard Space Center, Pankey Dental Institute, Este Lauder, Verizon, IBM, American Express, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Center for Creative Leadership, and Banff Centre for Leadership Development. He has also been engaged as the keynote inspirational speaker for numerous professional associations at their annual conferences.
To experience this high-definition film online, please visit https://inspireimagineinnovate.com/the-artistry-of-leadership/.
To contact Kevin Asbjörnson for more information:
Kevin Asbjörnson, MIM, TLA
Managing Director & Global Executive Coach
Inspire Imagine Innovate™
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Email: Kevin.Asbjornson@InspireImagineInnovate.com
Website: www.InspireImagineInnovate.com