Carl Stormer has done what most people dream of -- combined two of his greatest passions -- jazz and business -- to create a successful, highly sought after business. Jazzcode AS, a consulting and entertainment firm specializing in improvisational collaboration and structured communication, offers training for high-performance teams in communication, innovation, and creativity in business and collaboration. Carl, a founding prinicipal of JazzCode, often brings in musicians to illustrate how jazz musicians collaborate in real-time and then draws the parallels for professional teams. JazzCode has been performed with leading musicians for large and small groups at such organizations as IBM, Krafts Food, Oracle, KPMG, Statoil, Hydro, Telenor, Schibsted, Insead Advanced Management Program, Novartis, London Business School AMP, Cap-Gemini and others.

Before he started JazzCode, Carl was the Director of Marketing at Norwegian Airshuttle, one of Europe's largest low-cost carriers which he helped to take public. He was the founder and executive vice president of StudentUniverse Inc., the leading U.S. online student travel agency. Before founding StudentUniverse, Carl worked as a senior strategy consultant for IBM Global Services. He founded "The Real Thing," Norway's most popular jazz groups and worked as a professional jazz musician in New York and Norway for many years. Carl has recorded five CDs in the last five years, "In the Moment" (2007), "Codes for Christmas" (2008), "Being Here" (2010) and "Entering the Human Age" (in 2011). In 2009, he co-authored the Harvard Business School case "Miles Davis Kind of Blue" with Professor Robert D. Austin.

Carl holds two Masters degrees -- in business from Columbia University and in music from Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelor of music degree from New England Conservatory of Music.

Business Leadership, Jazz