the authentic business storytelling workshop™
Business Storytelling Training to build trust and connection that drives buy-in, decisions & change.
If you want to sound like a robot, go to ChatGPT. This business storytelling workshop helps your team communicate with humanity when collaboration, flexibility, and resilience are core business objectives.
200+
Business Teams Trained
40
Max Participants
1 Day
Immediate Impact
Business storytelling training clients include:
drive impact through authentic connection
Emotional intelligence is Business Intelligence. This workshop lets you communicate with it.
Watch Jordan explain how business storytelling connects to your emotional operating system
Great communication is not about scripts or tricks. It’s about learning how to work with your Emotional Operating System, so you can connect what you have to say with what other people think and feel. When people understand that we are always communicating from our emotions — whether we realize it or not — we can make simple, easy adjustments that immediately improve our confidence, our clarity, and our business impact.
This is a new definition of Business Storytelling for a changing world — focused not just on what you say, but the feelings of trust, urgency, and action that you impress on your stakeholders. Forget formulaic structures: this storytelling training addresses the emotional foundation that makes highly effective communication possible.
the authentic business storytelling workshop™
Authentic communication gets results.
This storytelling workshop is about helping your team communicate in clear, honest terms, while still driving powerful business outcomes — rather than delivering formulaic, memorized scripts.
Beyond Formulas to Real Human-to-Human Communication
Most corporate storytelling training focuses on delivery techniques or scripted structures. That may seem valuable on the surface — but beneath the surface, these trainings send the clear message that “good” communication means pretending that you are someone else. That’s only going to block trust, raise anxiety and interfere with collaboration.
I say: your team doesn't need another lecture on how they “should” communicate. What they need is the courage and confidence to say what they really think, so they can communicate from a place of genuine insight rather than performance anxiety. When your people learn to speak genuinely while still being strategic, their influence, impact and results all improve.
This storytelling workshop will show your team the precise path to get there — by learning to work practically and productively with their Emotional Operating System.
Make Complex Ideas Feel Simple
Translate complex data and ideas into clear human language that creates real understanding without undermining your technical expertise.
Help Different Teams Understand Each Other
Get people to understand and buy-in to your value by knowing who you are and what you want to say, and speaking from that place inside of you.
Build Trust, Influence and Urgency
Connect with what stakeholders actually care about through genuine curiosity and understanding rather than manipulation or scripts.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“This isn't another boring corporate training. It's a shift in how we think about influencing our leaders and stakeholders, with practical strategies for driving improved results.”
— Chief Transformation Officer, Consumer Packaged Goods Company
training structure
How The Storytelling Workshop Works
Interactive, experiential sessions that help your team rediscover their natural communication strengths while building practical business skills.
Morning Session: The Inner Foundation
Session 1: Find Your Team's Natural Voice
Move beyond generic corporate language to communicate in a way that feels authentic while still being professional
Understand how your team's emotional operating system affects confidence, engagement and business impact
Practice speaking from within yourself rather than repeating the same buzzwords used by everyone else
Session 2: Connect Through Understanding
Learn to see your message and goals through stakeholder perspectives so you can use their language — not yours
Improve your creative problem solving, so you can create communication that people genuinely want to engage with
Learn to work with emotions as information rather than obstacles to clear communication
Afternoon Session: Practical Application
Session 3: Practice with Real Presence
Apply your authentic approach to actual business challenges
Receive peer and expert coaching that helps you stay honest — even when you’re feeling under pressure
Reinforce the value of communicating what you really think — and see the real impact on your audiences and stakeholders
Session 4: Integration & Sustainable Practice
Identify practical shifts that are necessary to sustain your team's change communication approach
Establish common practices and languages for maintaining this more natural way of connecting
Understand how this foundation can support deeper transformation in your strategy, messaging and tactics
who attends
Tailored to your team’s priorities.
Perfect for teams that need to influence without authority, communicate across functions, or help diverse stakeholders navigate complexity and change.
Technical Teams
Engineers, data scientists, and IT professionals who need to translate complex solutions into business language that gets buy-in and funding.
Project Managers
Managers driving cross-functional initiatives who need to align diverse teams around shared goals and maintain momentum through change.
Sales & Marketing
Client-facing teams who need to communicate value in ways that create genuine connection rather than just pitching features.
Finance & Analytics
Teams who need to translate data and analysis into compelling narratives that drive decision-making at all levels.
Operations Teams
Managers implementing new processes or systems who need to overcome resistance and drive adoption across the organization.
HR & People Teams
Professionals communicating culture change, policy updates, or organizational shifts that require genuine employee engagement.
workshop features
Content tailored to your team
Sales teams needing client narratives
Product teams explaining features
HR teams communicating policy changes
Operations teams driving process adoption
Analytics teams contextualizing data
Change teams moving transformation forward
Cutting edge approach
Develop emotional intelligence as business intelligence by working with your Emotional Operating System for better communication outcomes
Build collective narrative intelligence that helps teams communicate facts and data effectively
Focus on genuine sense-making during volatile conditions, not just message delivery
Access creative problem-solving through storytelling that expands possibilities
Interactive learning methods
Live scenario coaching using your team's actual business challenges
Peer-to-peer feedback loops that build collective communication capacity
Stakeholder simulation exercises with real-time adjustment practice
Collaborative problem-solving around complex communication obstacles
Inner work exercises that build authentic confidence
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Jordan’s storytelling workshop challenged our team perfectly.”
— Karen Stanton, Chief Marketing Officer, IFF
Meet Jordan Bower
Narrative facilitator. Change consultant. Transformation leader.
Over the last 15 years, Jordan has taught business storytelling to more than 200 organizational teams. His experience stretches across industries and includes a wide range of organization functions, from technical teams to sales, marketing, ops, product, change management, data analytics and beyond.
Jordan doesn't just teach communication techniques. He helps teams discover their authentic voice and learn to communicate from that place of genuine confidence. His approach bridges the inner work of personal development with practical business skills that drive real results.
Beyond storytelling, Jordan is an acclaimed transformation guide who helps businesses build resilience, agility and flexibility across leaders, teams and the wider organization.
workshop investment
Options for every team budget.
Flexible options designed for corporate teams and L&D budgets. All workshops include pre-work assessment, customized materials, and follow-up resources.
Half-Day Intensive
Perfect for immediate impact
$8,500
4-hour focused session
Authentic communication foundations
Quick-win tools for immediate application
Up to 40 participants
Virtual or in-person delivery
Full Day Deep Dive
Begin a team transformation
$15,000
Full 8-hour immersive experience
Complete authentic storytelling toolkit
Real business scenario practice
90-day implementation plan
Up to 40 participants
Post-workshop resources
Workshop + Integration
Sustain behavior change
$25,000
Everything in Full Day package
Follow-up coaching sessions
Custom communication templates
Team presentation feedback
90-day support
Additional virtual sessions
Satisfaction Guarantee
If your team doesn't walk away with immediately applicable tools that improve how they communicate,
I’ll stay involved at no extra cost until we get it right.
If I can’t get it right, I’ll return your budget.
Ready to Go Deeper?
This workshop teaches foundational skills for working with your team's Emotional Operating System. Teams ready to develop these capacities at the leadership level can explore our executive workshop or organization-wide development through Rocket Science™.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“We went from avoiding difficult conversations to actually getting energized by them. Complex problems became opportunities to demonstrate our communication capacity.”
— Director of Strategy, Professional Services
let’s get started
Ready to build future-ready communications skills?
✅ Emotional, social and creative intelligence for human-centered leadership
✅ Systems thinking to communicate interconnected business challenges
✅ Resilience building through communication that strengthens under pressure
✅ Continuous adaptation mindset for thriving in constant change
Frequently Asked Questions
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Most programs focus on delivery techniques and formulaic structures. This workshop addresses the inner foundation that allows authentic communication to emerge naturally. Your team learns to speak from genuine confidence rather than borrowed frameworks.
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In an AI-dominated world, authentic human connection is your competitive advantage. When people communicate from their genuine voice rather than corporate scripts, they naturally create more trust, engagement, and influence.
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It means moving beyond transactional communication to help stakeholders feel understood and valued. When you connect with what people actually care about, they become genuinely engaged with your message and outcomes.
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Absolutely. The principles of authentic communication are even more important in virtual settings where building genuine connection is more challenging. We adapt all exercises for virtual delivery while maintaining the personal impact.
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Teams typically report improved confidence in high-stakes communications, better cross-functional collaboration, and more engaging presentations. Many describe it as "remembering how to be human while still being professional."
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This workshop often serves as an entry point for teams interested in deeper organizational change. It provides a foundation that naturally leads to leadership coaching and more comprehensive transformation initiatives through our other programs.