Miha Pogacnik

Miha Pogacnik: Profile

At the vanguard of innovation, classical concert violinist Miha Pogacnik is world-renowned for inspiring organizational transformation and leadership. Applying the artistry of music to the demands of business, Miha works with corporations around the globe to enhance understanding of change and to heighten innovation and competition. His message of celebrating meaning and renewal is a critical one in response to the current atmosphere of worldwide fear and uncertainty. 

As a virtuoso violinist, creative genius, and speaker, he shows us that art is a significant force for productivity, creativity, peace, and renewal; that music offers effective answers to the most pressing needs of business—including the needs for integration, quality, and meaning.

As a keynote speaker and cultural entrepreneur, Miha:

• Offers an original response to today's quest of the business world for innovation and leadership.
• Hailed by The Guardian, London, as an artist who is making “hard-nosed executives turn to the world of creative talent in a pragmatic effort to improve efficiency.”
• Renowned for setting the world standard in “Art and Business.”

After completing a Fulbright Scholarship, Miha’s intellectual curiosity, joie de vivre and vision to position the arts as a driver for social change, led him to step outside the parameters of a classical concert violinist. Why? Because “creativity and innovation are primary business skills central to growth and sustainability. If you add passion, courage, performance and imagination, you have the qualities that artists live by. By establishing a new relationship between the arts and business, one in which I bring the profound musical process to the corporate floor and use the arts as an organizational development tool, bold visions can be considered and realized. The linear and rational must fuse with inspiration, beauty and passion for change to be implemented.”

Miha taps the largely unexplored potential of art as a significant force for productivity, creativity, and organizational renewal by:

• inspiring business leaders around the world to “think out of the box”;
• helping teams intensify the spirit of innovation — leading them towards new ways of listening to themselves and to others by tapping the pathways of their intellect and emotion;
• using music to enhance understanding of the most pressing demands of business, ranging from the search for excellence and quality, to problem-solving and leadership.