Jordan Bower’s
Storytelling Training for Leadership Teams

Jordan’s energizing leadership storytelling training enables leaders to communicate vision with clarity and conviction, align teams around purpose, and lead through disruption with authenticity.

About Jordan’s Leadership Storytelling Training

Jordan’s leadership storytelling workshop helps your team communicate strategy in a way that feels real — connecting the dots between high-level vision and what it means for employees, teams, and customers on the ground by bridging the gap between data and emotion.

Designed as a stand-alone 1 day learning session or woven into a conference or off-site.

Using your team’s real content — projects, roadmaps, challenges, decks and data —so you realize immediate value.

Strengthen the ability to lead through ambiguity and show up with clarity, confidence, and messages that land

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

"Jordan's leadership storytelling workshop challenged us perfectly.”

Karen Stanton, Chief Marketing Officer, IFF

What is Leadership Storytelling?

Leadership storytelling is the practice of using narrative to inspire, align, and mobilize people around a vision, strategy, or change. It’s not about performance —it’s about making ideas relatable, memorable, and emotionally resonant.

Great leadership storytelling helps:

  • Clarify complex strategies by connecting them to real human stakes

  • Build trust by showing vulnerability, empathy, or lived experience

  • Create alignment by giving teams a shared language and direction

  • Drive behavior change by shifting mindsets, not just issuing mandates

  • Lead through disruption by helping people make sense of uncertainty

Ultimately, leadership storytelling turns abstract goals into something people can see themselves in—so they feel motivated not just to follow, but to lead with you.

Who Jordan’s Leadership Storytelling Workshop is For

This Leadership Storytelling Workshop is designed for senior leaders and high-potential executives who need to communicate with clarity, authenticity, and influence—especially in moments of complexity, change, or transformation.

It’s for:

  • Executives and divisional leaders tasked with aligning teams around strategy, vision, or change

  • Functional heads (e.g., operations, HR, finance, product) who must engage cross-functional teams and influence without micromanaging

  • Emerging senior leaders preparing for larger stages — town halls, boardrooms, investor calls, or global team briefings

  • Leadership teams seeking a unified, consistent voice to support cultural alignment, transformation efforts, or strategic rollout

  • Anyone in a leadership seat who needs to move people not just with logic, but with meaning

Whether you're entering a new market, repositioning, restructuring, or evolving your culture, this workshop will help you build the skills that spread the narrative.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“Jordan's prep and delivery was top-notch. This isn't just another training—it's a fundamental shift in how we connect with our clients and stakeholders, so we can drive improved results.”

Chief Operating Officer, Mid-Market Turnaround Consultancy

What Your Team Can Expect

Expect a hands-on, immersive learning experience that’s personalized to your team — including exercises, examples, and a combination of tools and coaching — guided by a masterful facilitator and expert in leadership storytelling.

1. Tools for Leading Change

Build belief, reduce resistance, and inspire action through storytelling — especially when people are fatigued, skeptical, or disconnected.

(We can help you find, develop, and even transform your strategic change narrative.)

2. Balance Head & Heart

Elevate the impact of data, logic, and business rationale with authentic empathy, emotion, and narrative flow — resulting in stronger presence in high-stakes moments.

(We can provide follow-up coaching, guidance, and resources that are customized to your needs.)

3. Team Alignment & Cohesion

Get your team telling a cohesive shared story through customized frameworks and language that aligns your messaging without sounding scripted.

(We can bring you together around the story that builds belief, reduces resistance, and inspires transformational action.)

About Jordan Bower

I’m 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)

I’d love to share my passion for this work with your team!

Great clients across industries.

Jordan Bower has worked with 200+ organizational clients, including Fortune 500 companies, governments, non-profits & innovative startups like:

How Your Workshop is Structured

Your personalized workshop will include examples, exercises, and case studies customized to your team, based on detailed Discovery research that’s included with every session.

1. Kick things off with the Role of Storytelling in Leadership

Learn why narrative matters in complex organizations.

  • Explore how storytelling drives alignment, trust, and action

  • Understand the difference between data-driven messaging and narrative leadership

  • Reflect on the current stories shaping your team, division, organization or change/transformation initiative

2. Explore the Art & Science of Crafting Your Strategic Narrative

How to structure strategy, change, and vision as compelling narratives

  • Translate business priorities into messages that resonate emotionally

  • Combine data, values, and human insight into a cohesive arc

  • Adapt tone, structure, and emphasis for tailored impact

3. Real World Application for Communicating with Narrative

Bring your story to life with clarity and conviction.

  • Build a narrative around a current initiative, shift, or vision

  • Get real-time coaching on style, tone, and structure

  • Work individually and in small groups for high-level personalization

4. Debrief your learning and plan your own Tailored Next Steps.

Scale storytelling across teams and initiatives.

  • Learn how to align leadership messaging across functions and levels

  • Discuss how to embed storytelling in ongoing leadership practices

  • Leave with a personal story asset and toolkit for future use

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“This workshop helped our leadership team find a shared voice. We now communicate strategy in a way that feels unified, human, and compelling—whether we're talking to employees, investors, or each other.”r.

— Division President, Enterprise Technology Company

What Outcomes You’ll Get

This workshop goes beyond “how to tell a story” to reframe how to lead through story.

Teams that attend Jordan’s workshop consistently report these outcomes:

1️⃣ Sharper, More Resonant Strategic Communication

Translate complex strategies and change initiatives into clear, human-centered narratives that inspire understanding, alignment, and action — internally and externally.

2️⃣ Stronger Executive Presence and Influence

Gain tools to communicate with greater clarity, authenticity, and emotional intelligence in high-stakes settings — whether it's a town hall, boardroom, or 1:1 conversation.

3️⃣ Greater Alignment Across the Leadership Team

Develop consistent messaging around vision, values, and direction — reducing confusion and reinforcing cultural cohesion — by learning a shared narrative framework.

4️⃣ More Effective Leadership Through Disruption and Change

Get better equipped to guide teams through uncertainty by addressing resistance, making meaning of change, and fostering trust through storytelling.

5️⃣ A Reusable, Personalized Story Toolkit

Leave with a crafted leadership narrative tied to a real initiative or communication need, plus a repeatable structure and mindset your leaders can apply to future messaging.

Common Workshop Use Cases:

  • Creating unity around the strategic narrative behind a project, strategy or change effort

  • Overcoming obstacles to leading complex organizational transformation

  • Communicating vision and addressing resistance

  • Cascading consistent messaging across the org

  • Balancing data-driven and human level leadership communication

READY TO GET STARTED?

Book A Call With Jordan

Equip your leaders with the tools to inspire trust, align people, and lead with clarity in a time of constant transformation. Let’s talk about how this leadership storytelling workshop could support your goals.

What’s included:

  • Pre-workshop research including 1:1 interviews with your team and detailed review of your existing messaging

  • An in-person or hybrid workshop tailored to your team

  • Options for detailed follow-up including advisory, coaching, and more

Pricing varies depending on audience size, event duration/location, level of customization, and follow-ups.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Most leadership communication training focuses on presentation delivery or message structure. Our leadership storytelling training addresses the deeper strategic challenge: how to develop and deploy narratives that drive organizational transformation. We focus on the cognitive and emotional dimensions of leadership storytelling, not just delivery techniques.

  • Through our confidential executive discovery process, we identify your team's specific strategic challenges, stakeholder dynamics, and transformation objectives. The program incorporates your actual strategic priorities and leadership challenges, ensuring immediate relevance and application.

  • Executive teams consistently report three key outcomes: accelerated stakeholder alignment, enhanced change leadership capabilities, and more authentic leadership presence. Leaders develop practical narrative tools they can apply immediately to their most pressing strategic challenges.

  • Yes. We've designed specialized versions of our workshop for virtual delivery that maintain high engagement and impact. Our virtual workshops utilize collaborative digital tools, breakout sessions, and specially designed activities that create meaningful interaction despite the digital format. Many clients choose a hybrid approach, with initial in-person workshops followed by virtual integration sessions.

  • 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.

  • Post-workshop support varies by package but typically includes implementation guidance materials, follow-up check-in sessions, leadership coaching options, and access to additional resources. Our $25,000 package includes two structured follow-up sessions and 90 days of implementation support. We believe real transformation happens after the workshop, which is why we emphasize sustainable integration into your team's actual work.

  • We establish clear success metrics during the discovery phase based on your specific goals. Common measurements include before/after assessments of stakeholder engagement, time-to-decision on key initiatives, team alignment scores, and qualitative feedback from key audiences. Clients typically see measurable improvement in the first 30 days, with significant transformation occurring over 90 days as new approaches are integrated into regular workflows.

  • Absolutely. Many clients begin with a single team workshop that demonstrates tangible results, then expand to a broader organizational approach. Our enterprise transformation program is specifically designed to embed new narrative capabilities across departments, creating organizational alignment and consistent stakeholder experiences. We've helped organizations implement storytelling as a core strategic competency that drives innovation, alignment, and external impact.