🤝 How I Help
My work is based around a worldview, a method, a suite of tools, and a practice for transformational integration — I call it Rocket Science 🚀
Hands, Heads, Hearts and Stories — How I Work with My Clients
Businesses aren’t machines. They’re living, breathing systems — made of people, emotions, and — especially — stories.
Included in these stories are the words that literally come out of our mouths, fingers, and thumbs, as well as a deeper layer of narratives about who we are, where we’re going, and the choices we have to make in order to get there.
In a changing world, the old stories no longer fit. Whereas, once, our leadership stories were about predictability and confidence, today, what we all need is the capacity to make meaning in ambiguity — while also delivering on our team, organizational and shareholder goals.
My work is about changing these stories. Clarifying the path. Navigating complexity. Unlocking change at the human level. Making it all practical.
Yes, it really is Rocket Science 🚀
HOw CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS BEGIN
Phase Zero — Your First Step
Phase Zero is a low-commitment, high-insight engagement designed to clarify your most pressing challenges, map the dynamics at play, and identify leverage points for transformation.
What you get:
A shared understanding of where you are and why
Insight into cultural, strategic, and leadership dynamics
A clearer sense of the leverage points for transformation
Typical Deliverables:
Executive interviews & culture audit
Strategic story mapping
Facilitation with your core team
Synthesis & insight briefing
Outcomes
What’s Possible Through Our Work
Transformation isn’t a buzzword here — it’s a real shift in how your people think, feel, and lead. Here’s what that can create:
Executive Team Alignment
New Leadership Narratives
Unblocked Cultural Resistance
Deeper Team Cohesion
Friction Finally Resolved
Business Systems Designed for Resilience and Evolution
“Organizations that successfully increase the capacity of workers to grow personally, use their imagination, and think deeply are 1.8x more likely to report better financial results, 1.4x more likely to say they are creating broad value for customers, community, and society, and 1.6x more likely to say they provide workers with meaningful work.”
🚀 How I Think About Transformation
Einstein famously said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” This is the essence of what I call Rocket Science — a suite of tools, skills, language, and worldviews that provide the backbone to all of my engagements. Here’s a quick peek:
Transformational Intelligence
Real transformation doesn’t just take strategy. It takes a higher form of human intelligence — the kind that knows when to analyze, when to feel, when to imagine, and when to connect.
Most organizations over-index on analytical intelligence — plans, metrics, logic. But deep change happens when leaders can move fluidly across four core intelligences:
🧠 Analytical – make sense of data and systems
💓 Emotional – lead through empathy and intuition
🎨 Creative – imagine new possibilities
🌐 Relational – move people and ideas into alignment
When all four intelligences are activated in a system:
Leaders become more adaptive and emotionally attuned
Teams become more open, generative, and aligned
Change becomes less of a battle — and more of an evolution
Organizations become more comfortable with uncertainty
The 7 Blockages
Sitting above the four intelligences are seven invisible, systemic forces — subtle but powerful dynamics that interrupt the upward flow of transformation.
These aren’t just organizational challenges. They’re ingrained habits of mind, culture, and behavior — often invisible until we name them.
Over-intellectualization
The story that everything must be rationalized or proven before moving forward. This shuts down emotional and creative responses.
Past Orientation
The story that focuses on what’s already been done rather than what’s possible in the future. This keeps us rooted in what worked before rather than what’s needed now.
Invisibilizing the Human Element
The story that focuses on directive outcomes without considering the human commitments and choices that can enable or hinder them. This skips the integration that’s required to make change real.
Over-Emphasis on Performance
The story that leadership requires being polished and in control at all times. This suppresses vulnerability and limits growth.
Fixation on Past Grievances
The stories that rehash failure or harm without resolution. These weigh down the present with unresolved emotion and inhibit moving forward.
Misplaced Conviction
The story that success lies in sticking to a predetermined course through hard work and grit. This narrows our perceptive ability, blocking adaptability and creativity when conditions change.
Impatience
The story that change needs to happen at a certain cadence determined by current perceptions of our goals and timelines. This perpetuates judgements based on who we are today — not the people we will be tomorrow.
Transformation in Action: Client Success Stories
Mid-Market Consultancy
This cross-functional team needed to streamline and clarify their client communications to elevate the value they were providing. Through a Strategic Backcasting approach, Jordan guided the team to envision their ideal client relationships and work backward to identify the precise shifts in messaging and delivery needed to create those outcomes.
Transformational Intelligence™ Applied: Integration of creative visioning with analytical pathway development, resulting in a completely transformed client engagement model.
“We were blown away by Jordan’s prep and insight. He helped our analytical team embrace outside-the-box thinking by providing practical solutions that drive real client impact.”
— Chief Operating Officer
Global Medical Devices Company
Facing resistance to a major transformation initiative, this organization developed a strategic narrative that helped diverse stakeholders understand the business case for change — and what this shift in narrative would require, personally, of leaders.
Transformational Intelligence™ Applied: Integration of analytical data with emotional and social intelligence to create a narrative that addressed both logical and emotional resistance to change.
“We were so focused on the logical message we were trying to get across — we didn’t realize that we were overlooking the hidden messages we were communicating to our stakeholders. By shifting our tone, Jordan helped us be more creative and human-centered — radically shifting our impact.
— General Manager, Americas
Global Brand Marketing Team
Working in a highly technical industry, this company was struggling to take the creative risks to truly differentiate their brand. Through workshops combining Strategic Backcasting and creative intelligence, they disrupted their conventional thinking to see new paths forward.
Transformational Intelligence™ Applied: Activation of creative intelligence within a team that had previously relied exclusively on analytical approaches, resulting in breakthrough marketing initiatives.
“Jordan challenged us perfectly.
— Chief Marketing Officer
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CONTACT JORDAN
Ready to explore how I can support your leadership or team?
My clients include:
Corporate Executives, Business Owners, Executive Directors, or Board Chairs who need to advance innovative or transformational agendas
Start-up Founders, Entrepreneurs or Thought Leaders who need to inspire systematic change through compelling, visionary stratgeic narratives
High-Potential Leaders, Political Organizers, or Influencers who are building inner and outer resources in next level skills like creative leadership and authentic storytelling
Hybrid, Virtual and In-Person teams need to who achieve complex operational goals, improve agility, and win organizational buy-in for change
I work with clients around the world from my office in Vancouver, Canada.
Lead transformation from the inside out.
Ready to start your change journey? Let’s find some time to connect.