Transformational Backcasting™ Workshop for Strategic Planning Teams
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Envision the future — then live from it. The Transformational Backcasting™ Workshop helps executive and strategic planning teams move beyond short-term thinking and toward bold, vision-driven action by telling the story of the future and walking it back to today — guided by a master storytelling consultant and transformational facilitator.
Lead Innovation and Transformation by Transforming Your Narrative
In a time of uncertainty, complexity, and accelerated change, organizations can no longer rely on forecasting alone. Real transformation begins not with data from the past — but with a compelling, emotionally resonant vision of what the future could become.
Transformational Backcasting™ is a facilitated workshop experience that helps leadership and transformation planning teams:
Clarify their future state
Build alignment around a shared narrative
And chart a path backward from vision to action
Unlike traditional strategic planning, backcasting isn’t just a tool — it’s a shift in mindset. It empowers leaders to move beyond incrementalism and reactiveness, and begin leading proactively from possibility.
Hi, I’m Jordan Bower — and over the last 15 years, I have guided more than 200 teams to greater organizational impact through better storytelling.
I would love to work with you and your team.
What is Backcasting?
Forecasting asks: What will probably happen next?
Backcasting asks: What future do we want to create? And how do we lead toward it?
It’s a storytelling-powered planning method that uses narrative, reflection, collaboration and creativity to:
Expand your strategic imagination
Integrate vision, purpose, and possibility into decision-making
Build buy-in across diverse stakeholders
Align teams through shared language and meaning
Backcasting is especially valuable during moments of transformation, reinvention, or cultural evolution.
Who This Workshop is For:
This learning experience is ideal for:
Executive and senior leadership teams
Strategy, transformation, and innovation leads
HR, People & Culture, or Organizational Development teams
Cross-functional teams facing disruption, complexity, or misalignment
Whether you're shaping what's next, leading through ambiguity, or realigning your culture and strategy — this experience creates the clarity and shared vision to move forward.
When to Use Backcasting
This workshop is ideal when your organization is:
Navigating strategic transformation
Evolving purpose, culture, or values
Feeling stuck in short-termism or tactical firefighting
Emerging from disruption or preparing for scale
Seeking to unify leadership around a refreshed direction
If you're asking what's next?, Backcasting helps you discover and define the answer.
What Your Team Will Get
Backcasting is more than a planning tool. It's a leadership communication intervention — one that strengthens foresight, clarity, and the capacity to lead from the future, not just react to the present.
But it’s not a quick fix — a Transformational Backcasting workshop is about strategic disruption. This workshop helps initiate change by sparking imagination, surfacing hidden obstacles, and creating the conditions for visionary leadership to take root.
Walk away with:
A shared narrative of a possible future state — co-created, imagined, and emotionally resonant
Early alignment on directional priorities and values that should guide the path forward
A working map of opportunities and barriers between the future and present
Language and metaphors that begin to shape how change can be communicated across the organization
Deeper trust and openness within your team as you explore the unknown together
A powerful nudge out of status quo thinking — and into a new mode of exploration and possibility
Workshop Options
1-3 day in-person immersion
Half-day executive session
Multi-session cohort
Optimal Group Size: 6-15 participants
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
"Jordan's workshop challenged us perfectly.”
Karen Stanton, Chief Marketing Officer, IFF
Why This Workshop is Different
Most planning workshops are focused on answering the question, "What's our strategy?" This one is focused on a more powerful question: "What kind of future do we want to lead?"
The Backcasting Workshop is not about filling out templates or creating a fixed plan. It's about creating a shared future vision and beginning the process of aligning around it. This is what makes it different — and why it works.
✅ Narrative-Driven
This isn’t just vision casting — it’s narrative building. Participants learn to tell the story of the future they want to create, and communicate it with clarity and emotion.
✅ Facilitation Over Frameworks
Rather than pushing templates, we guide an adaptive, reflective process that surfaces insight from the group itself.
✅ Founder-Led and Customized
Jordan personally leads each engagement and customizes content to your transformation context, industry, and team dynamic.
✅ Outcome-Focused
This isn’t a brainstorm. It’s a launch point for culture, communication, and leadership evolution.
✨ Ready to explore a workshop for your team?
From Workshop to Strategic Engagement
The Backcasting Workshop is often the first phase of a longer collaboration. Following the session, clients often continue with:
Narrative consulting: Bringing the future story into messaging, campaigns, and internal communications
Executive coaching or facilitation: Supporting leadership presence and cohesion as transformation unfolds
Strategic planning support: Helping teams prioritize and sequence based on their backcast
Let’s design an engagement that fits your journey.
Why Choose This Workshop?
As an HR or leadership development decision-maker, you need training that delivers more than inspiration. You need:
Clear alignment to leadership competencies and communication goals
Behavior change that lasts beyond the session
Relevance to the real challenges your teams are navigating now
A trusted facilitator who can handle nuance, power dynamics, and emotion with care
ROI you can see — in stakeholder engagement, alignment, and performance
This is what I deliver — and why over 200 organizations have trusted me with their teams.
About Jordan Bower
I’m Jordan Bower — a storytelling consultant, coach, and facilitator with 15+ years of experience helping teams and leaders transform how they communicate.
I’ve worked with global brands, scale-ups, governments, and nonprofits — supporting leaders in times of growth, uncertainty, and change.
My approach blends:
Narrative strategy (storytelling that aligns to business goals)
Emotional intelligence (to help people connect with honesty and empathy)
Facilitation mastery (to shift team dynamics in real time)
This isn’t just what I teach — it’s what I live.
I’d love to share my passion with your team.
Jordan’s expertise spans industries.
Jordan Bower has worked with 200+ organizational clients, including Fortune 500 companies, governments, non-profits & innovative startups like:
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Jordan knows his subject matter inside and out, and he communicates it wonderfully.
Workshop Attendee, Canadian Tire Triangle Learning Academy
a true transformational learning experience
Let’s begin.
Ready to imagine a future that feels worth working toward — and start moving toward it with clarity and intent?
This workshop is designed for leadership teams ready to reconnect to purpose, define direction, and build toward a shared future — not by guessing what will happen, but by choosing what they want to create.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Leadership communication training helps individuals — especially those leading change — develop the skills to influence, align, and inspire through clear, authentic, and strategic communication. This workshop focuses on storytelling as a leadership capability, integrating emotional intelligence and backcasting.
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Change agents are anyone in your organization who plays a role in leading transformation — whether formally (HR, L&D, DEI, strategy, innovation) or informally (trusted voices, team leads, cultural stewards). This training supports those responsible for translating strategy into human terms.
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This isn’t about performance. It’s about presence, alignment, and real influence. We teach storytelling as a tool for navigating resistance, creating emotional resonance, and shaping strategic direction — not just for the stage.
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Yes. We offer formats from 90-minute keynotes to multi-session virtual cohorts. All options can be customized for your audience size, delivery environment, and strategic priorities.
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Clear frameworks for storytelling in leadership and change
Personalized narratives that connect their work to strategy
Practice applying story to real-world challenges
A renewed sense of confidence and cohesion as communicators
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Backcasting helps participants think like storytellers of the future: Where are we going? What do we want people to believe, feel, and do? Then we work backward to shape stories that move the organization toward that vision. It’s a strategic, story-driven approach to transformation.
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Yes. I personally facilitate all workshops to ensure consistent quality and depth.
For enterprise-level engagements that involve multiple workshops, Jordan leads the core program while occasionally bringing in carefully selected and trained associates for supporting components. This ensures the unique blend of emotional intelligence and strategic insight that defines our approach is present in every engagement.
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We often embed this as a module inside broader L&D, cultural, or strategic transformation initiatives. We can partner with internal teams to ensure seamless integration, language consistency, and lasting impact.
Lead transformation from the inside out.
Ready to kickstart your organization's change journey?
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Jordan serves clients globally through both virtual and in-person business storytelling workshops for teams.