Druminar
The Ultimate Team-Building Experience
Motivate and Engage Your Team!
No prior musical experience is required to participate!
Druminar™ is a new twist on the concept of team-building and leadership development training. Our certified facilitators are trained to help your team’s engagement, motivation, communication, enhance corporate culture and improve employee performance.
Drum Circles
Regardless of the size, age, or composition of your group, Drum Circles channel the power of music and percussion to bring people from large corporations, small businesses, or students of any age together as a team.
Benefits:
- Brings team members together to achieve a common goal
- Emphasizes the importance of each team member’s contribution
- Promotes cooperation among co-workers
- Demonstrates the value of effective communication and listening skills
- Illustrates the importance of diversity
- Encourages individual creativity within a group setting
- Breaks down hierarchical barriers
- Improves critical team management/leadership skills
- Develops camaraderie among co-workers
- Relieves stress
- Fun!
Learn How to Conduct an Orchestra
Our Maestro will demonstrate the significance and importance of clarity, expressiveness, preparation, and confidence needed to be a successful leader and manager. The symphony conductor is used as a metaphor for your CEO.
I think I speak for the entire group when I say that I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to draw the connection between the corporate and music worlds…
I can honestly say that Druminar provided a very unique opportunity for our team to work together in unexpected ways and that the new perspectives will certainly be carried forward!!
How it Works…
Using guided rhythmic activities and discussion, participants take team-building to the next level. Everyone on your team is given a unique drum or percussion instrument to play. Our certified facilitators employ an interactive, hands-on approach to help participants gain personal insights and group connections, leading to individual and organizational growth. In addition, our Conductor will teach your team the skills needed to be a conductor and a successful leader.
No prior musical experience is required to participate!
Team Building Exercises
This program is designed to teach both managers and employees the value of highly functioning teams, resulting in increased levels of employee/team engagement and business performance.
Leadership Development
The symphony orchestra conductor is used as a metaphor for your CEO. Our Maestro will focus on developing leadership skills for the corporate environment. Your team will see examples of full conductor scores and learn the basics of various beat patterns used by conductors. Your team will experience the significance of clarity, expressiveness, preparation, and confidence needed to be a successful leader and manager.
Conferences
Druminar™ is perfect for conferences. Whether it’s for kick-offs or closings, retreats, conventions, or seminars, you will create connections between participants that will last well beyond your event.
Student Sessions
Our student programs are hands-on rhythmic experiences geared towards students of all ages–starting as young as third graders and going through to college and university students..
Pricing
For quotes on our drumming programs, please contact us. We can deliver this unique experience at your venue or arrange a suitable venue for you.
Team Building Exercises
This program is designed to teach both managers and employees the value of highly functioning teams, resulting in increased levels of employee/team engagement and business performance.
Leadership Development
The symphony orchestra conductor is used as a metaphor for your CEO. Our Maestro will focus on developing leadership skills for the corporate environment. Your team will see examples of full conductor scores and learn the basics of various beat patterns used by conductors. Your team will experience the significance of clarity, expressiveness, preparation, and confidence needed to be a successful leader and manager.
Conferences
Druminar™ is perfect for conferences. Whether it’s for kick-offs or closings, retreats, conventions, or seminars, you will create connections between participants that will last well beyond your event.
Student Sessions
Our student programs are hands-on rhythmic experiences geared towards students of all ages–starting as young as third graders and going through to college and university students..
Pricing
For quotes on our drumming programs, please contact us. We can deliver this unique experience at your venue or arrange a suitable venue for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Drum Circle?
The drum circle is led by a facilitator who guides the group through various rhythms and rhythm-based activities. A drum circle is highly interactive and does not require any prior musical knowledge by the participants. Because each group is different, each rhythm-based musical experience is unique.
What are the benefits of Drum Circles?
- Brings team members together to achieve a common goal
- Emphasizes the importance of each team member’s contribution
- Promotes cooperation among co-workers
- Demonstrates the value of effective communication and listening skills
- Illustrates the importance of diversity
- Encourages individual creativity within a group setting
- Breaks down hierarchical barriers
- Improves critical team management/leadership skills
- Develops camaraderie among co-workers
- Relieves stress
- Is energizing and fun!
- Is accessible to all!
Do I need to be a drummer to participate?
How many participants can you accommodate?
Where are your programs held?
I’m ready to book an event. What comes next?
We will deliver this unique experience to your venue or can arrange a suitable venue for you. We provide all the drums needed for your program or event.
Remember–no musical experience is required! Let us provide a powerful drumming experience that will have a lasting effect on your team!
What They’re Saying About Druminar …
Our Certified Instructors
Jamie Shrock, MBA, SHRM-SCP, RACR
Co-Founder
Jamie Shrock is the co-founder of Druminar and a certified executive Human Resources professional with more than 15 years of leadership and organizational development experience in multiple industries including Banking and Health Care. She is a passionate, resourceful, inclusive, people-oriented leader who develops teams of human resources professionals and senior leaders. Shrock has expertise designing, creating, and leading innovative programs and systems to enhance corporate culture, improve employee performance and support organizational change. She has over ten different psychometric (personality), recruiting, talent and change management Human Resources licenses and certifications.
Currently she is the Director of People Operations & Culture at Circuit Clinical, located at its headquarters in Buffalo, NY.
Little known fact about Jamie... As a former professional musician, Shrock has held both management and musician positions with multiple symphony orchestras. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and also played in prestigious halls such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Shrock holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Bassoon performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Mark Hodges, MBA, M.M.
Co-Founder
Mark Hodges is currently the co-founder of Druminar and the Principal Percussionist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also a member of the percussion faculty at the State University of New York, Buffalo State.
In addition to many recordings with the Cleveland orchestra, Hodges has performed in over 35 recordings with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. His performances were part of the orchestras three Grammy awards received as recently as 2021. As an artist/endorser for Freer Percussion and Zildjian Cymbals, he is a highly sought after lecturer, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States.
Hodges holds degrees from Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, Capella University and the University of Cincinnati/College Conservatory of Music.
Little know fact about Mark ... Mark has performed many concerts with some of the top rock and pop artists including The Moody Blues, Sarah McLachlan, The B-52s, Johnny Mathis, Stewart Copeland (The Police), Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Burt Bacharach, Olivia Newton-John, The Temptations, and The Four Tops.
Maestro Paul Ferington
Facilitator
Druminar Facilitator Paul Ferington is hailed as a "distinguished Guest Conductor" by the Buffalo News. Ferington conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for over 25 years as a member of the executive conducting staff. During this tenure, he conducted the orchestra in over 400 concerts in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to his conducting, Maestro Ferington is Professor Emeritus from the Niagara campus of State University of New York (SUNY) and was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005. During his 32 years as an academic educator and administrator, Maestro Ferington served in major supervisory roles as Division Chair of Fine Arts and as Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs. He has supervised over 400 full and part-time faculty, along with support and clerical staff.
Little known fact about the Maestro ...
Ferington has conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and chorus every July 3rd to an audience of over 16,000 people for over 18 years. At his last BPO performance, July 3 was declared “Maestro Paul Ferington Day” in Buffalo, NY by Mayor Byron Brown.
Some of Our Clients
In the News...
Bankers get management training through conducting
The League of American Orchestras- summary of Buffalo News Article on Druminar
BPO promotes music education to school leaders
National Public Radio WBFO Broadcast Buffalo/Toronto
Drumming up teamwork
Buffalo Business First News
