Meet Storytelling Keynote Speaker Jordan Bower

Best Audience: Corporate events, Associations, Annual Conferences, Sales Meetings, Leadership Events

In this compelling and unique keynote, Strategic Storyteller Jordan Bower sets the foundation for a visionary story about the future of business. Using fascinating examples from digital marketing paired with cutting-edge insights from behavioural neuroscience, Jordan helps attendees imagine the future of their work and develop an actionable plan for creating valuable and fulfilling work in the Age of Automation.

What You Will Learn

• the terrifying truth about what digital media has done to our sense of trust;
• how authentic storytelling naturally creates the type of connections that digital natives crave most;
• how to create and tell an honest, professional and motivating story that helps you achieve practical business objectives.

Best Audience: Corporate events, Associations, Annual Conferences, Sales Meetings, Leadership Events

Storytelling. You’ve heard of it. You know it’s important. But how do you do it in a professional context? And why does it work so well?

In this thoughtful and engaging keynote, Strategic Storyteller Jordan Bower lays out the art and the science of effective business storytelling. Drawing from case studies, videos, neuroscience and the cutting edge of digital media, Jordan stitches together a clear argument for how business people can integrate their own, personal and unique stories as a way of creating closeness with their co-workers and prospects — closeness that leads to better work, higher sales and greater satisfaction with work and life.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the science of storytelling, and how it is changing the way we work;
• a new way of defining a story — not just as a piece of content, but as an emotional relationship between a storyteller and an audience;
• how to find and tell a personal story in a sales, marketing or leadership context that create results.

Best Audience: Corporate events, Annual Conferences, Leadership Events

Once, organizational culture was articulated in the C-Suite and driven down through the organization. But in the world of decentralized communication, where every customer is a critic and every employee a potential dissenting voice, the traditional Mission, Vision, Values structure no longer applies.

Just ask Wells Fargo, who cite “What’s right for our Customers” as one of their corporate values.

In a world where the organizational story is told in real time, by everyone, organizational culture will bubble out from a bottom-up, purpose-driven approach to storytelling. In this world, executives will be distinguished by their ability to tell real stories — stories about where the organization has come from, where they are going and  the real, profound and honest lessons they learned along the way.

What You Will Learn

• the Art & Science of why Storytelling affects us on an emotional level;
• how to create and tell an honest, professional and motivating story that helps you achieve practical business objectives;
• how to discover a shared, authentic organizational story, and spread it through your company and out into the world.

Best Audience: Corporate events, Annual Conferences, Leadership Events

Issues of gender and identity have grown beyond the portfolio of diversity & inclusion managers to become one of the most profound challenges facing modern managers. Companies as broad ranging as Airbnb and Budweiser have used their position on diversity in their marketing campaigns; companies like Uber and United have been punished by the marketplace for their lack of sensitivity and tact.

But what is the deeper problem? In this compelling and emotionally deep keynote, Strategic Storyteller Jordan Bower takes audiences beneath the data to travel a journey — a solo, 316 day walking trip between Canada and Mexico.  Along the way, audiences will explore the ancient conceit of initiation and ask profound questions about how renewing its importance in today’s workplaces can affect strategy, culture and organizational composition.

Through unique case studies, personal stories and uncommon intimacy, audiences will leave with a new perspective on how to address diversity & inclusion, as well as clear, actionable steps for what to do next.

What You Will Learn

• the functional role that initiation has played to create alignment around a shared goal;
• how to create and tell an honest, professional and mature leadership story that creates emotional alignment and motivation;
• how to discover a shared, authentic organizational story, and spread it through your company and out into the world.