WHAT IS GROOVE SYSTEM?

Groove System uses live music and world-class musicians to show organizations how to develop and lead collaborative teams.

Imagine an awesome concert, but where the audience gets to interact with the band and experience first-hand how musicians groove - and learns how to apply these principles in their teams. Engaging experience, great music, powerful learning.

We provide keynotes or hands-on workshops that will energize and elevate your next conference or event. But more than that, your organization will come away with actionable lessons that will make a difference in their work and lives.

ABOUT CODY LOUCKS

Groove System was developed by Cody Loucks.



Cody great up in a musical household. His mom was a piano teacher and his dad was a drummer.

Cody would play on his dad's drums whenever he got the chance, and at around 10 years old, he started playing them seriously. He pursued this passion intensely from middle school through college with the intent to play and teach for a living.

He attended the University of Northern Colorado, one of the premier music schools in the country. There he performed with the renowned UNC Jazz Lab Band I for several years. During that time, the band shared the stage with GRAMMY winners, was invited to perform at prestigious events across the country, and twice was awarded DOWNBEAT Magazine's highest honor of Best College Big Band   in 2005 and 2006.

But the greatest thing to happen during college was marring this amazing red-head named Jamie. They quickly started a family and had three children before graduating with a Masters degree in Jazz Studies in 2007.

Cody could find only one job in the country for which he was qualified though - with a music association based in Eastern Kansas. He got the job and moved his family from Colorado to Kansas in July of 2007. He started working at the association and teaching drumset part time at the University of Kansas.

A short seven months later, in February of 2008, the association went bankrupt, leaving Cody unemployed and with fragments of a crushed dream.

Miraculously, a friend offered Cody a job as a Product Manager at a professional development company in the same town. He didn't know what that job did or anything about publishing, but needed to provide for his family, and it felt like the right thing to do, so he took the job.

He was put in charge of all the intellectual property for leadership and team development. As he read and studied material about collaboration, developing effective teams, etc., he realized that everything these authors described was familiar - because Cody had been doing these things in bands all his life. In fact, some authors specifically mentioned that a jazz band provides an ideal metaphor for understanding how collaboration and alignment in teams should work.

So in 2012 Cody put together a session that brings a live band to organizations and shows them first-hand what it looks like to collaborate. They can see and experience THE SOUND OF COLLABORATION.

The response has been awesome. People say it's the best, most memorable session they've experienced.