Bring Jordan in as a facilitator
Immersive Team
Skill-Building Workshops
Develop transformational leadership communications and creative problem solving skills, and get tailored guidance on how to incorporate your insights into your business systems.
A workshop is an opportunity for a team to step back from normal work to develop new skills, explore new ideas and changing perspectives, and identify the tailored, practical next steps required to sustain change.
I facilitate every workshop myself, with both in-person and virtual options.
WHAT WORKSHOPS INCLUDE
Cutting-Edge Ideas & Examples
I conduct a thorough Discovery before every workshop and customize content and examples to meet your team where you’re at.
Structured Practice & Integration
Every workshop is built around collaborative group exercises to practice new skills and discuss how they apply to your team context.
Authentic Inspiration & Motivation
The primary goal of a workshop is to catalyze a change in how your team thinks — essential to creating conditions for sustaining change.
Storytelling for Leadership & Functional Teams
Improve your team’s ability to influence and engage stakeholders by learning to translate facts, features, and complex data point into an emotionally accessible strategic narratives.
Learn foundational business storytelling skills
Improve understanding of your stakeholder/audiences
Get applied practice and peer feedback
Identify practical, accessible, and tailored next steps
“Jordan’s storytelling workshop challenged our team perfectly.”
Karen Stanton, Chief Marketing Officer, IFF
how business storytelling can help
Building Voluntary Buy-In
When you can't mandate compliance, storytelling helps others willingly align with your vision
Earning Credibility
Authentic storytelling demonstrates expertise, passion and understanding of other perspectives.
Creating Shared Purpose
Storytelling builds common ground and shared values that transcend organizational hierarchies.
Driving Cultural Change
Storytelling helps change behaviors by reshaping the narratives about "how we do things here."
Bypassing Resistance
Stories can circumvent analytical resistance that direct requests might encounter.
Finding Meaning During Uncertainty
Storytelling make senses of disruption by connecting change to a larger purpose and future.
Find a New Strategic Path: Transformational Backcasting™
Learn an innovative planning process that helps leader connect their current reality to an aspirational future. Assess roadblocks, develop creative alternatives, and lay out the narrative that guides next steps.
Learn to plan what you’ve never done before
Build the capability and intelligence to transform
Embrace complexity, ambiguity, and continuous learning
Develop open-ended strategies that anticipate evolution
Explain it all in simple, emotional terms — as a story
“We came into the workshop with a complex product that we were struggling to message — even internally. We walked away knowing which story to tell, and why.
Rick Perrault, Chief Product Officer, Unbounce
Greater Innovation Potential
Backcasting creates psychological permission to imagine breakthrough approaches that might be dismissed in traditional planning, leading to more innovative implementation strategies.
the practical impacts of transformational backcasting™
Increased Stakeholder Alignment
Backcasting helps diverse stakeholders construct collective meaning around change, bridging perspectives and creating a common emotional investment in the transformation journey.
Creating a Story of Possibility
Backcasting transforms abstract goals into vivid future narratives that people can see themselves in, creating resonant stories that inspire genuine commitment rather than compliance.
More Resilient Change Management
Backcasting involves people in creating and refining the narrative, activating intrinsic motivation through shared ownership rather than relying on extrinsic compliance drivers.
Shifts the Relationship to Obstacles
Backcasting reframes challenges as parts of the journey rather than signs of failure, creating a more resilient emotional stance toward setbacks and maintaining momentum through difficulty.
Builds Meaning During Uncertainty
Backcasting gives people an emotional anchor during change, reducing fear of the unknown and providing a sense of direction that helps teams navigate ambiguity with confidence.
WHO JORDAN WORKS WITH
Let’s custom design a transformational workshop.
Executive Leadership Offsite or Retreat
Cross-Functional Innovation Summit
Virtual Transformation Sprints
Embedded Narrative Coaching
Transformational Learning Journeys
Human Centered Skill-Development
About Your Workshop Facilitator, Jordan Bower.
Jordan Bower brings over 15 years of expertise in transformational storytelling to your team. His unique approach combines deep emotional intelligence with strategic insight, helping organizations navigate complex change through the power of narrative.
Jordan has worked with more than 200 organizations across sectors, from Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups, bringing a rare blend of:
Strategic Vision
Emotional Intelligence
Creative Facilitation
Business Acumen
Change Expertise
“Jordan is unlike any consultant or coach I’ve ever met. He pushes me to go to entirely new dimensions creatively but always then returns me to Earth to take practical steps forward. Perhaps more unique, Jordan knows when to push me and when to let me find my own way. These gifts, over time, have created a very special kind of trust.
Matt Landau, CEO, Here Goes Nothin’
“I was nervous as we intended for it to be disruptive. Seems like we hit a nerve in a good way. I've heard everything from 'best speaker ever to this was long overdue. Regardless of outcome your prep and delivery was top notch and I will happily serve as a reference going forward.”
COO, Mid-Market Consultancy
“Jordan knows his material inside and out, and he communicates it wonderfully.”
Workshop Attendee, Canadian Tire Triangle Leadership Academy
Jordan’s expertise spans industries.
Jordan Bower has worked with 200+ organizational clients, including Fortune 500 companies, governments, non-profits & innovative startups like:
Transform uncertainty into creative possibility.
Ready to accelerate your organization's change journey with a workshop? Let’s find some time to discuss a collaboration.
Book Jordan for a Keynote Speech
Jordan regularly shares thought leadership on topics relating to Transformational Intelligence™, like leadership storytelling, creative problem solving, and emotional intelligence.
Let’s set up a call to discuss a transformational experience for your audience.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Jordan serves clients globally through both virtual and in-person workshops and keynotes.