Seek Change.
“Change seeking” is the next evolution in leadership: challenging assumptions and experimenting with new ideas before disruption demands it.
Jordan Bower is a facilitator, speaker, advisor, and storytelling coach who helps companies and individual leaders move boldly into a creative future.
Change can be a choice.
Rapid change has disrupted traditional ideas about how businesses are managed. Today, leaders must “choose” a future to create, drawing from human capacities like creativity and storytelling to set a bold vision and move it to reality.
This represents a significant shift from traditional analytical and risk-mitigating leadership. It’s a challenge that can’t be solved by AI alone.
Jordan’s work with companies and individual leaders delivers groundbreaking insights and wise support that moves people along this transformational journey.
Jordan has helped 200+ Companies including:
“Jordan’s ability to shift mindsets and open people to new possibilities is real.”
Zach Vitztum, VP, People, King’s Hawaiian
How Jordan Helps
I work with courageous leaders who are willing to challenge existing assumptions as they boldly move their businesses and themselves through growth.
Whether working with a company, a team or an individual, I see my role as helping you stretch towards new possibilities—guiding you to find insights and solutions through the creative challenge.
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For business teams
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For founders and owners of small-to-mid-sized companies
For conferences, SKOs and retreats
Dynamic creative sessions that start to shift how your team sees and prepares for the future.
Transforming culture, systems and strategy to incorporate the “change-seeking” philosophy.
For dynamic, human individual leaders
For colleagues
New perspectives on why to foster a “change-seeking” culture, with practical guidance on how to move forward.
Build storytelling skills that set inspiring visions and move others to want to change.
Learn how you can advocate for “change-seeking” and get support from others who think like you do.
Dynamic creative sessions that start to shift how your team sees the future.
Facilitated Workshops for Business Teams
Skill-Building Workshops
Working with businesses and functional teams to develop critical human capacities of the future: storytelling, creative thinking, facilitation skills and more.
Sprints & Think Tanks
Guiding transformation teams to make progress with an approach rooted in experimentation, collaboration, risk-taking and creative thinking.
Off-Sites & Retreat Design
Shaping the goals, arc, themes and rhythm of leadership summits and learning journeys, balancing strategic business goals with the human element.
Immersive Formats
Unique signature experiences like hosted dinners and curated salons that create the intimate space that catalyze real, meaningful and human discussions.
Change-seeking guidance for companies creating a dynamic, hopeful future.
Strategic Advisor to Founders and Business Owners
Rapid change has disrupted traditional ideas about how businesses are managed. Today, leaders must “choose” a future to create, using creativity to set a bold vision and dynamic systems to make it reality—a significant shift from analytical, risk-mitigating management.
As the co-founder of X-Stasis, an innovative consultancy, I deliver groundbreaking insights and wise support to move your business along this journey.
We help you adapt systems, strengthen culture and develop the human capacities that create “change muscles” at all levels.
“Our leaders were so focused on implementing AI that we hadn’t realized that our own mindsets had to change. Jordan guided us through the challenging conversations to help us achieve a new reality.
J.S., CEO, 150 employee Impact Investing Firm
Keynotes that build courage for change, with practical takeaways that support progress.
Speaking for Conferences, SKOs and Offsites
Signature Talk
Fostering a Change-Seeking Culture in the Age of AI
Rapid change has disrupted traditional ideas about how businesses are managed. Today, leaders must “choose” a future to create, using creativity to set a bold vision and dynamic systems to make it reality—a significant shift from analytical, risk-mitigating management.
Though many are hurrying to rewire workflows and processes, Jordan Bower argues convincingly that they are jumping over the essential first step: mindset change. Without guiding people to address and overcome their natural change resistance, visionary innovation is never going to stick.
Delivered with heart, depth and exceptional good humor, Jordan’s timely message helps audiences move forward with simple, practical takeaways.
A Dynamic Audience Experience
Jordan’s facilitative presentation style is inseparable from his message. He engages the audience in dialogue, rather than from pre-prepared remarks, as a practical demonstration of the human capacities he discusses.
Every Talk is Different
Before every keynote or event, Jordan works with organizers to conduct research on the audience, tailoring his ideas, message and examples not only to their needs, but also to their perspective and operating context.
Bridges Business With Human
Jordan’s relatable, funny style touches business leaders at the level of their practical strategy at the same time that it nourishes their heart and soul. A perfect balance of insight, perspective shifting and human motivation.
Select Clients
Autodesk
CIBC
Electronic Arts
King’s Hawaiian
Pleo
Big Panda
Culture Amp
Federal Reserve Bank
Mölyncke Health Care
Rakuten
Cisco
Dynacare
Johnson & Johnson
Pearson Education
Volvo Cars
Canadian Tire
DHI
Government of Canada
Mozilla
Signal49
Keynotes (In-person or virtual) • Fireside chats & onstage conversations • Interactive workshops & breakouts • Custom talks based around your theme
Formats
Build leadership storytelling skills so you set inspiring visions and move others to change.
Storytelling Coaching for Dynamic, Human Leaders
With 15+ years experience teaching leadership storytelling, Jordan has established himself as a trusted coach for established and up-and-coming leaders.
Whether you are an executive trying to guide your team to buy into your vision or a younger leader trying to help your stakeholders understand your insight and value, Jordan can help you strengthen how you communicate.
His holistic approach considers narrative structure, understanding your audience and technique, as well as the nuanced, emotional side of communicating with authenticity and confidence.
Jordan enjoys working with any change-seeking individual. He has helped CEOs, mayors of major cities and US congressmen, as well as mid-level managers, solopreneurs and new hires.
His coaching is priced for accessibility and stands out for his playfulness and good humor.
Effective storytelling begins with the stories we tell ourselves. As your coach, I’ll guide you to shift your outer abilities and your inner perspective at once.
Advocate for “change-seeking” and get support from others who think like you do.
Ideas and Community Experiences for Colleagues
Jordan curates the visions, ideas and stories that move leaders to think differently about the next age of work, turning shared ideas into emotional meaningful experience.
About Jordan Bower
A multidisciplinary change seeker pushing the frontier of the Future of Work
Exploring the integration of multiple intelligences—analytical, emotional, creative, physical and spiritual—in service of the highest human goals: judgement, creativity, risk-taking and wisdom.
Jordan Bower is a Canadian entrepreneur, facilitator, speaker and creative. He is the co-founder of X-Stasis, an innovative consultancy focused on developing human capacities and using these to design transformational strategy and culture in the Age of AI. Previously, he was the founder of Transformational Storytelling, a Learning & Development consultancy that worked with 200+ organizations.
Jordan has spoken at multiple conferences worldwide including the Future of Storytelling Summit and Culture First, and has delivered keynotes, workshops and facilitated leadership conversations for leading global brands, like Autodesk, Mozilla, Rakuten, Volvo Cars and Johnson & Johnson.
Jordan’s work is built upon deep personal experience exploring the edges of transformation. In his earlier years, Jordan traveled on long trips independently to 50 countries, diving deep into the emotional and spiritual aspects of the creative arts. His personal art projects have been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail and The Huffington Post. He has spoken widely about his personal pilgrimage across America, walking 3,000 km solo and through 3 pairs of shoes.
Jordan holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and two silver medals from the World Championships of Ultimate Frisbee.
He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Contact
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Speaking Bookings
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Press & Media
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Private Mentorship
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