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Transformational Storytelling Training Workshop for Leaders
Transform how you lead change through trusted, authentic leadership narratives. Shift mindsets, practice new skills, receive peer feedback, and apply insights right away — all in one transformational storytelling training for leaders.
“Jordan’s leadership storytelling workshop challenged us perfectly.”
Karen Stanton, Chief Marketing Officer, IFF
Build cutting-edge TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Turn Data into Narrative
Practice transforming complex ideas into clear, authentic narratives that make sense, resonate emotionally, and guide intelligent stakeholder action.
Invite Collaboration
Shift your approach, language, and use of visuals so you can improve how you engage the creativity and buy-in of different stakeholders and audiences.
Position Your Leadership
Learn a cutting-edge innovation framework that helps your stakeholders see the big picture around change — and understand the next steps to make your vision reality.
Leaderhship Storytelling Workshop Purpose & Impact
Lead through storytelling into an era of unprecedented change.
The fundamental nature of leadership communication has transformed. In a world of declining trust, increasing complexity, and accelerating change, your ability to create and communicate compelling strategic narratives has become your most crucial leadership capability.
The most effective leaders I work with aren't just sharing information or delivering presentations. They're using strategic leadership storytelling to envision better futures, align diverse stakeholders, and guide sustained change. They understand that in today's complex environment, narrative isn't just how we communicate strategy – it's how we create it. Storytelling helps:
Build trust at a time of skepticism
Create alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
Accelerate transformation in resistant organizations
Innovate systems and strategies proactively
Rise above the noise a distracted world
Today, leaders face a perfect storm: skeptical stakeholders, resistant organizations, competing priorities, and an endless battle for attention. That’s why I’ve designed this leadership storytelling training — to help you and your team be more effective when communicating change.
Jordan’s expertise spans industries.
Jordan Bower has worked with 200+ organizational clients, including Fortune 500 companies, governments, non-profits & innovative startups like:
A different kind of workshop
Transform how you lead change through a Strategic Leadership Storytelling Training.
Unlike most storytelling trainings, which focus on theory, this expertly facilitated workshop challenges existing mindsets and coaches you to put your new insights into immediate action.
Develop Foundational Leadership Storytelling Skills
Learn the building blocks and human dynamics skills that are required to transform complex ideas into compelling narratives that resonate.
Build Creative & Emotional Insights
Dig deeper to explore the human side of communication — developing actionable insights that are directly relevant to your team and your work.
Apply Your New Learnings Immediately
Use what you’ve learned to assess and address a real leadership challenge. Gain new perspective, innovative solutions and next steps.
Transform your team
Let’s partner to make a productive shift in how your team communicates.
BUSINESS storytelling WORKSHOP Structure
Your leadership storytelling training workshop is tailored to real challenges.
“Know your audience” is a core tenet of effective storytelling. We take this insight to heart by conducting a detailed Discovery process that allows us to tailor the storytelling training content — including exercises, examples, and case studies — to your team, your leadership context, and your authentic reasons for wanting to create change.
This enables you and your team to learn the ideas listed below in a relevant, engaging style that not only exhibits the ideas behind the subject matter — it also creates lasting change.
Every leadership storytelling training includes:
Detailed Pre-Workshop Discovery:
1-on-1 executive interviews
Strategic narrative assessment
Stakeholder analysis
Communication audit
Post-Workshop Support:
Implementation guidance
Follow-up sessions and ongoing resources
Tailored recommendations for next steps
Options for additional coaching and strategic support
Morning: Storytelling Principles
Leadership storytelling principles
Narrative strategy development
Emotional intelligence in leadership
Advanced influence techniques
Afternoon: Transformational Application
Real-world scenario work
Strategic messaging development
Peer feedback and coaching
Implementation planning
Your team will become better leadership storytellers in just one workshop with Jordan Bower.
This workshop is designed for senior leaders who need to:
Lead major organizational change
Build stakeholder alignment
Create cultural transformation
Drive innovation and growth
Navigate complex transitions
Build high-performing teams
Workshop INVESTMENT
Transform your leadership team’s strategic narrative capabilities.
Core Narrative Workshop
Tailored to Your Team
$15,000
A one-day immersive storytelling experience that shifts how your team approaches your core strategic narratives.
Full day for up to 40 participants
Includes pre-work and discovery
Tailored workshop design
Follow-up recommendations
30-day extended support
Recommended
Workshop + Support
Extend Your Learning
$25,000
Extend your workshop experience with supporting services like sustain learning and support your team through change.
All core elements + up to 75 participants
Detailed discovery process
90-day implementation support
Two follow-up virtual sessions
Executive coaching credits
Enterprise Storytelling
Customized Package
Starts at $50,000
Catalyze a narrative transformation across your organization, re-imagining core strategy and messaging.
Multiple workshops
Organizational roll-out
Comprehensive support
Coaching and train-the-trainer options
Long-term partnership
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“I've heard everything from 'best speaker ever’ to ‘this was long overdue’. Jordan’s prep and delivery was top notch.”
Chief Operating Officer, US-based turnaround consultancy
Leadership storytelling trainer
Hey, I’m Jordan Bower—expert business storytelling teacher, coach and guide.
Jordan Bower has been teaching storytelling in business for more than 15 years. He has worked with 200 clients in business, government, and non-profits and taught storytelling to 1000s of professionals.
Deep emotional intelligence
Strategic insight
Creative facilitation
Corporate understanding
Innovation and change expertise
Recognized subject matter expert and thought leader in his field
how we can work together
Let’s discuss how to sell this unique storytelling workshop to your decision making team.
There’s a simple reason why storytelling isn’t more widely used in organizations: it’s vulnerable and outside-the-box compared to more traditional business communications. That’s why it’s essential to get buy-in from the top — otherwise, even the most brilliantly facilitated learning engagement will be unsustainable. Here’s three themes about business storytelling that I often bring up when discussing my content with decision makers.
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AI is totally changing the landscape.
AI automates any communication that involves reporting information — and much more. This requires business people learn to lead with human-centered skills, rather than just passing along data:
Creating engagement, trust and credibility
Inspiring meaningful change
Guiding stakeholders through transformation
If we don’t transform how we communicate, we put ourselves at risk for being replaced by AI.
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Trust has plummeted.
We all know how difficult it is to assess what’s true and what’s not in a world that’s swimming in information. Facts can’t tell the story when the facts themselves are always changing. We must:
Connect authentically and vulnerably
Embrace creative problem solving
Shift focus from outcomes to process
The old command-and-control structure is being replaced by a new style based on narrative.
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Status quo is no longer an option.
Whether we like it or not, disruption is coming. Rather than try to “future-proof” against the inevitable, we can proactively envision and create a more desirable future. Every team must:
Communicate a vision of where they’re headed
Create context and direction to get there
Communicate with authentic belief
These new narrative-driven skills have already become table stakes for innovative businesses.
Let’s collaborate
Let’s discuss how to frame the value of this workshop for your decision making team.
executive Storytelling TRAINING FINE PRINT
Dig into the details of Jordan’s storytelling training for leaders.
Have a question? Send Jordan a message.
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Workshop Learning Obejctives include:
Develop your “influence without authority,” improving how you can engage and persuade cross-functional teams
Go beyond one message to create a “constellation of narratives”—so you can adapt to different audiences
Improve the impact of complex ideas and data, distilling insights into simple, narrative forms
Build your confidence and ability to engage others, becoming someone who can hold audiences’ attention
Address objections and resistance to change through counter-narratives that can reframe and clarify
Discuss how your messaging strategies and tactics can change to adapt to the opportunities and threats of AI
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Standard workshop length is 1 full day. Half day, one and a half, and two day options are also available. Virtual sessions can be accommodated — but in-person is best.
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Jordan delivers workshops in-person throughout the US and Canada — and, occasionally, at locations in Europe and Asia. Jordan is based in Vancouver, on the West Coast of Canada.
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Leadership storytelling workshops work best with groups between 8-25. We can easily accommodate larger teams — contact us for more details.
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Executive Leadership Teams
Sales Leadership Groups
Marketing & Communications Teams
Product Development Leaders
Cross-functional Innovation Teams
Change Management Groups
Jordan also offers a version of this workshop tailored to functional teams. See more here.
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Pre-workshop assessment
Custom content development
Digital resource library
Post-workshop support
Implementation tools
Follow-up consultation
Common Questions
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This is a full-day immersive experience tailored specifically for leadership teams. The training combines expert facilitation, interactive storytelling exercises, strategic discussion, and practical application of narrative tools. Leaders learn to craft compelling stories that drive change and create alignment.
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Unlike traditional communication training that focuses exclusively on presentation skills, this leadership storytelling training also addresses the emotional and strategic dimensions of narrative. We help leaders develop authentic voices that build trust, drive change, and create lasting impact in an AI-driven world.
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The training is ideal for executive teams, senior management groups, and cross-functional leadership teams. We've trained leaders from every division — including sales, marketing, product, finance, operations, and innovation. The optimal group size is 8-25 participants.
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Through detailed pre-training discovery, we adapt content, examples, and exercises to your specific industry context and organizational challenges. Every training incorporates your actual strategic narratives, making the learning immediately applicable to your leadership situations.
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While the training is optimized for in-person delivery, we offer virtual adaptations for distributed leadership teams. These include specially designed interactive elements to ensure engagement and impact in a digital environment.
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Leaders develop practical storytelling skills to:
Transform complex ideas into compelling narratives
Build trust through authentic communication
Drive change through strategic storytelling
Enhance leadership presence and influence
Create stronger team alignment and engagement
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We establish clear objectives during discovery and measure outcomes through:
Leadership feedback and implementation success
Observable changes in team communication effectiveness
Stakeholder engagement and buy-in
Change initiative success rates
Team alignment metrics
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We provide several options for continued leadership development:
30-90 day implementation support
Follow-up coaching sessions
Digital resource library
Implementation tools
Progressive learning journeys for organizations
Advanced storytelling training modules
Leadership storytelling training outcomes
Transform how you lead through strategic narrative.
Strategic Vision Creation
Transform complex strategies into compelling narratives
Create emotional resonance around abstract goals
Build stakeholder engagement across silos
Drive meaningful organizational change
Authentic Leadership Presence
Develop your unique leadership voice
Build trust through strategic vulnerability
Create genuine connection at scale
Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics
Transformational Influence
Lead change through strategic storytelling
Build momentum for transformation
Create sustained organizational buy-in
Drive meaningful cultural change
Ready to transform your leadership impact?
Schedule a consultation to explore how this program can help you:
Create compelling strategic narratives
Build authentic leadership presence
Drive meaningful organizational change