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Canadian Michael Jones is an accomplished composer and pianist as well as a leadership educator, writer and speaker. He is widely recognized for his unique and innovative work in bringing together leadership practice with creative artistry to further the work of personal transformation and community and organizational learning.

He has integrated musical performances with his public speaking and seminars in a variety of forums, including; The Association for Managers of Innovation, Leading the Innovative Organization and the Spotlight on Leadership for the Banff Centre Benefactors Mid Summer Ball, The MIT Dialogue Project and Dialogos Inc. The Creative Education Foundation, The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, The International Leadership Association, Penn State Milton S.Hershey Medical Center, Proctor and Gamble, The Canada School for the Public Service and Towers Perrin Tillinghast and The DeBaak Management Centrum in the Netherlands among many others.

Michael is a Leadership Fellow and Associate Faculty with the Executive MBA and Executive Leadership programs at The Center for Professional Excellence, University of Texas, San Antonio; A Charter-Consulting Member with The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL); and a Senior Fellow with The Centre for Leadership and Executive Effectiveness at the Office of Executive Programs, The University of Maryland.

He has recently been engaged in several innovative projects including a four week Creative Leadership Program with a leading international energy technologies company, a series of dialogues on Leadership for Transformation with The Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo Michigan and Connecting for Change a series of broadly based multi-sector dialogues through The Dali Lama Center for Peace and Education in Vancouver B.C.

An evocative writer and storyteller, Michael is the author of two books; Creating an Imaginative Life (1995,2006) and Artful Leadership, Awakening the Commons of the Imagination (2006). He has also contributed essays on transforming leadership and reawakening the imagination to numerous journals.

As a pianist/composer he has often been described as a musical painter. The founding artist of Narada Records, he has sold over 2 million of his many recordings of original solo piano music worldwide. His music has served as a benchmark for the emerging genre of contemporary instrumental music and he has performed solo concerts widely in the US as well as in Seoul, Tokyo and the International Piano Festival in Montreal, Canada.

Michael holds a BA in Music and Psychology from Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B and an MA in Adult Learning from the University of Toronto. He lives with his partner Judy, an educator, healer and fine artist, in a lakeside community north of Toronto.