About Mark Harmer
My work encompasses education, media production, music performance, music facilitation, and creativity.
I enjoy connections and think they’re increasingly important in a fragmented world. I hope this site will give you an insight into how I combine these various passions to help people discover more about their organisations, develop new things, or just enjoy music more!
Recently I have been developing and producing a range of video / audio / web media in collaboration with professionals working with young children throughout Gloucestershire, UK, to help them understand and benefit from music.
Following 23 years’ experience in the BBC in broadcast, production, training and leadership development, I graduated in the Ashridge Masters in Organisation Consulting in 2006 and for my disseration, explored ways of combining my musical and OD experience.
Working with one of my colleagues at Ashridge Consulting, I run workshops addressing creativity and strategy development through the use of musical and other artistic means, in groups, as a way not only of looking at these issues in a different way and thereby getting different data, but also as a way of allowing people to experience the power of free dialogue in groups towards a common, co-created goal - something all too rarely experienced in organisations. Think of it as teamwork at a very deep level.
Last, but not least, I play solo harp and also perform with a 6-piece celtic band and run my own online import / export business.
Mark Harmer
BA (Hons) music, University of Southampton
MSc in organisation consulting, Ashridge
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