Phase Zero™
Kickstart your team's journey to Transformational Intelligence™ with a deeply insightful diagnostic engagement, guided by master change catalyst, Jordan Bower.
The Transformation Leader’s Challenge
Organizations facing the pressures and complexity of change can often overlook the intricate connections between seemingly unrelated issues. This can create widespread change resistance — and leadership indecision about where to start.
The Phase Zero Solution
We’ll spend a few days with your team, observing dynamics and asking revealing questions. With our unique expertise and outside perspective, we’ll (gently) reveal blind spots — helping synthesize insights and envision new paths forward.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Through Phase Zero, Jordan quickly shifted our focus from how we messaged top-down change to how we invited stakeholders into a transformational process. In just a few days, he showed us what we had overlooked, while delivering clear, tailored, and practical guidance on how we could move forward.”
—SVP, Americas, Global Medical Solutions Company
Introducing Our Methodology
Why Phase Zero?
Phase Zero is your first step towards the elevated intelligence you need to navigate complex change.
In these "unprecedented times", the convergence of technological disruption, market shifts, and evolving social values requires that organizations must transform — not merely change. This new reality demands a fundamentally different approach to leadership than the skills, mindsets, and change management methodologies that were designed for the industrial age.
Transformational Intelligence™, our proprietary methodology, represents the integration and amplification of four intelligence domains that, when working together, can create a new foundation for organizational evolution.
By harnessing the synergistic power of analytical, emotional, social, and creative intelligence, leaders can accelerate team success in a business environment where change is not just constant — it's exponential.
Move beyond "future-proofing" to plan and achieve transformative futures
Foster innovation ecosystems that allow creative thinking to flourish
Build change capability through cross-functional collaboration, skillful facilitation, and authentic leadership communication/storytelling
Develop visionary leadership narratives that "build the bridge" from today's cultural values and history to tomorrow's evolutionary future
"Leaders must evolve beyond being managers seeking incremental improvement to become visionaries with the courage to boldly imagine and pursue the future."
How Phase Zero Will Help
Transformational leadership can be a dizzying process. Unlike traditional organizational change, transformation is an ongoing creative process — instead of A to B, it's A to ∞.
Phase Zero kickstarts this journey with an intimate exploration of your current state. Through stakeholder interviews and attentive observation, we'll deeply understand your organizational goals, history, and ecosystem — allowing us to make customized, creative recommendations for practical next steps.
THE OUTCOME: A summary report that synthesizes learnings and observations — and recommends three transformational pathways forward, each offering different levels of change impact.
PHASE ZERO BUDGET: $15,000
How Phase Zero Works
The goal of Phase Zero is to intimately understand the heart and soul of your organization by considering your past — culture and history — and your desired future — vision, mission, and strategy — through the lens of current skills, initiatives, challenges, and narratives.
Phase Zero includes:
On-Site Immersion
Jordan will spend two days on-site with your team, observing operations and team interactions. (For hybrid/virtual teams, "on-site" means participating in virtual interactions.)
Stakeholder Interviews
Jordan will conduct formal and informal interviews with a cross-section of your team — from executives to staff — revealing the deeper beliefs and narratives shared by your organization.
Communication Audit
Jordan audits your internal and external communication, reviewing existing strategy, brand, positioning, cultural values, leadership development, change messaging, and more.
Leadership Debrief
Jordan facilitates a debrief with team leadership to present synthesized insights — skillfully shifting your thinking and mindsets, and guiding you to see a transformational path forward.
Go Beneath The Surface: How Phase Zero Helps:
By interrupting habitual patterns and opening up headspace to see from new perspectives
By stepping back to think big picture about how your world is changing, so you can assess new opportunities that may not have been visible the last time you looked
By listening intently to the narratives behind the data, so you can include in your analysis the insights and information that you may not have been able to track
By shifting the focus from risk mitigation to creative problem solving, so you can lead change proactively instead of being caught in the cycle of reaction
By becoming more attentive, intentional, and, therefore, effective in how you move towards goals, guide your team, and shape your organization’s culture
By infusing insight, authenticity, and charisma into your communication, so you can be more compelling, engaging, and impactful.
By remaining steadfast in your commitment to change through ongoing, supportive, and intimate guidance.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Jordan challenged us perfectly.”
— Chief Marketing Officer, Global Health & Biosciences Company
My Risk Free Guarantee
100% Satisfaction or Your Money Back.
The truth is that all transformation is inherently exploratory—it surfaces challenges that may not have been initially visible and reveals new solutions that could not have been foreseen. My experience has shown me that this uncertainty can feel uncomfortable to leaders accustomed to traditional consulting's predefined deliverables.
That's why I offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
If you're uncomfortable with any aspect of the Phase Zero process — including the recommendations that the process produces — you'll receive:
A complete refund with no questions asked
Referrals to three comparable consultants who can leverage the insights already gathered
Full ownership of all work products produced in Phase Zero
This guarantee reflects my confidence in my ability to deliver valuable and creative insights, as well as my commitment to client success, even if that means recommending a different path forward.
What Comes Next?
Get tailored transformation guidance.
We offer a suite of consultative, coaching, and facilitative services that can guide your path forward.
After completing Phase Zero, you'll have three clear pathways for next steps. Depending on your organization's specific needs and readiness, you might choose to proceed with one of the following:
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Strategic Narrative Development
Transform insights from Phase Zero into a compelling change narrative and strategic roadmap that aligns your team around a shared vision.
Investment: $25,000 - $45,000
02
Capability Building
Activate your strategy through leadership coaching, team workshops, and organizational system redesign focused on developing sustainable capabilities.
Investment: $15,000 - $100,000
03
Evolutionary Partnership
Maintain transformation momentum through ongoing advisory support, progress measurement, and strategic refinement to ensure sustainable evolution.
Investment: Custom retainers available
Hypothetically Asked Questions
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Unlike traditional consulting that often begins with predefined solutions, Phase Zero is an exploratory diagnostic that prioritizes deep understanding before making any recommendations. It creates space for creative insights and customized approaches that are truly aligned with your unique organizational context.
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The on-site portion of Phase Zero typically takes two days, with a synthesis and debrief meeting scheduled shortly thereafter. From initial engagement to final report delivery, the entire process usually spans 2-3 weeks.
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Phase Zero is particularly valuable for organizations navigating significant change or transformation, including leadership transitions, strategic pivots, mergers/acquisitions, culture evolution, or market disruption. It's designed for leaders who recognize that sustainable change requires more than just technical solutions.
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No. Phase Zero is designed to deliver standalone value through its diagnostic insights and recommendations. Many clients choose to continue working together on implementation, but there's no obligation to proceed beyond the initial engagement.
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My approach integrates technical business understanding with deep human insight. I'm not just analyzing processes and systems, but also mindsets, narratives, and cultural dynamics that often remain hidden in traditional assessments. This creates a comprehensive picture that addresses both the visible and invisible aspects of your organizational ecosystem.
Transform uncertainty into creative possibility.
Ready to kickstart your organization's journey to Transformational Intelligence™? I'd love to collaborate!