John Michael Schert
Originally from South Georgia, and now residing in Boise, Idaho, Schert began his career as a ballet dancer with American Ballet Theatre and Alonzo King LINES Ballet after attending high school at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
As the founding partner of JMS &Company, John Michael consults for clients such as SYPartners, The House of Beautiful Business, Starbucks, the City of Boise, and Soho House, as well as lectures in cities around the world. He is an executive producer of Boise’s B Corp-certified Treefort Music Fest and is the founder of the American Ballet Theatre Leadership Lab which translates the skills and creative choice-making abilities of dance artists into valuable tools for the private and public sectors.
Topics: Uncertainty, collaboration, creativity, leadership, creative process, authority, systems change, physical intelligence, mind/body, discomfort-as-an-asset
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John Michael Schert
Past speaking engagemens
In 2004 he co-founded Trey McIntyre Project (TMP), concurrently serving as the company’s Executive Director, and a dancer, for nine years. During this time, he gained a unique insight into the process and product of art-making and realized the ability to translate the creative process across different disciplines and domains. From 2013 to 2017 he served as the inaugural Visiting Artist and Social Entrepreneur at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Fall 2014 as an Associate Fellow with the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts. Through these appointments he studied, and lectured on, the utility of the creative process and how the skills and behaviors of creatives can be of relevance and value to other sectors.
John Michael is a recipient of a 2019 USA Eisenhower Fellowship traveling to Thailand and Egypt to study authoritarian systems. Schert holds a Master in Public Administration; with a Certificate in Management. Leadership, and Decision Sciences, from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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