transformational intelligence™ CONSULTING Approach
Design New Mindsets, Narratives, and Action Plans for Leading Transformation
In these “unprecedented times,” leaders need to think, communicate, and collaborate in new, unprecedented ways. Through Transformational Intelligence™, Jordan Bower guides leaders to harness the synergy of analytical, social, emotional, and creative intelligence so you can navigate a world where change isn’t just constant — it’s exponential.
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Introducing
Transformational Intelligence™
Transformational Intelligence™, our proprietary methodology, is about synthesizing four domains of human intelligence in a leadership or organizational setting to create unprecedented impact.
While many organizations have traditionally viewed intelligence exclusively as logical and data-driven analysis, Transformational Intelligence both broadens the definition and works towards synthesis, so that organizational leaders can find new, more effective solutions to today’s complex business challenges.
The goal of Transformational Intelligence is to do more than change how leaders act — it’s to help them change how they think. Through Transformational Intelligence, leaders can improve complex problem solving, creativity, emotional intelligence, systems thinking, and other foundational skills that are consistently ranked among the most essential capabilities for navigating our rapidly changing business landscape.
“Leaders must evolve beyond being managers seeking incremental improvement to become visionaries with the courage to boldly imagine and pursue the future.”
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Introducing Our Methodology
The Four Dimensions of
Transformational Intelligence™
Analytical Intelligence
The foundation of evidence-based decision-making, analytical intelligence enables organizations to:
Leverage data to identify patterns and opportunities
Apply systems thinking to understand complex interdependencies
Assess risks and rewards with precision
Create testable hypotheses for continuous improvement
Social Intelligence
The architecture of collaborative networks, social intelligence helps organizations to:
Connect, communicate, and collaborate across diverse stakeholders
Build trust across organizational boundaries
Create shared meaning through compelling narratives
Strengthen collective creativity and resilience
Emotional Intelligence
The catalyst for human engagement and resilience, emotional intelligence allows organizations to:
Regulate reactions to uncertainty and ambiguity
Foster psychological safety during periods of disruption
Identify blockages to Analytical Intelligence
Re-ignite motivation, create belonging, and allow creativity to flourish
Creative Intelligence
The engine of innovation and reimagination, creative intelligence enables organizations to:
Challenge established assumptions and mental models
Envision alternative futures and possibilities
Synthesize diverse perspectives into novel solutions
Experiment with emerging planning and creative leadership approaches
TRANSFORMATIONAL INTELLIGENCE™ IN PRACTICE
Strategic Backcasting™:
A Cornerstone Methodology
At the heart of the Transformational Intelligence™ approach lies Strategic Backcasting — a powerful planning methodology that fundamentally differs from conventional strategic planning.
From Forecasting to Backcasting
Traditional strategic planning typically relies on forecasting—projecting current trends forward to predict likely futures. This approach works well in stable environments but falls short in times of rapid change and disruption.
Strategic Backcasting reverses this process. By beginning with a clear vision of success — one that goes beyond goal-setting to get to the heart and soul of what you’re trying to accomplish — leaders can better understand and assess the functional, emotional, social, and creative shifts required to actualize that future state. You can set different priorities and design a different level of strategic narrative coherence.
The Practical Impacts of Transformational Intelligence™
Improve Creativity in Strategic Planning
Develop the capability to envision unprecdented future states — and align your team to use Backcasting to create transformation pathways that connect the present to that desired future.
Implement Adaptive Systems and Mindsets
Shift beyond risk mitigation to embrace complexity, ambiguity, and continuous learning as opportunities rather than threats — and embed this perspective into real business systems.
Transformational Capability Building
Improve agility, resilience, and cognitive flexibility by systematically develop the four TI intelligence domains through experiential learning, coaching, and practice communities.
Business Systems Redesign
Reimagine organizational structures, processes, incentives, and cultures to enable rather than constrain the expression of Transformational Intelligence.
How Jordan Helps Leaders & Teams Turn Transformational Intelligence™ into Action:
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Phase Zero™ Diagnostic Engagement
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Transformational Strategic Narrative Consulting
Craft compelling, strategic and authentic narratives that use Strategic Baskcasting™ to connect culture and history with a visionary future.
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Transformational Team Workshops & Seminars
Participate in a unique team learning engagements that builds the skills and intelligence to be effective in an ever-evolving workplace.
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Creative Leadership Coaching for Executives & Leaders
Work with me as your creative leadership and storytelling coach to build your ability to innovate and communicate as a future-focused leader.
WHO I PARTNER WITH
Who Benefits from Transformational Intelligence™?
Transformational Intelligence can help any forward-thinking leader who sees the urgency of adopting new ways of leading, planning and communicating:
Corporate Leaders, Owners, Executive Directors, or Board Chairs who are responsible for leading teams to new levels of skills, engagement, and success while also advancing innovative or transformational agendas
Start-up Founders, Entrepreneurs or Thought Leaders who are designing systematic change and need to create compelling and visionary narratives to engage their teams, investors, the market, or society at large
Hybrid, Virtual and In-Person teams who need to achieve complex operational goals, improve creativity and win organizational buy-in while also addressing burn-out, isolation, and lack of belonging
High-Potential Leaders who are building their inner and outer resources in next level skills like creative thinking, collaborative leadership, and compelling and authentic storytelling
TRANSFORMATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN PRACTICE
How Transformational Intelligence™ Helps Leaders & Organizations
Most organizations rely solely on Analytical Intelligence, through data-driven analysis, logical reasoning, and scenario planning. This domain of intelligence can be a powerful tool. However, because Analytical Intelligence extrapolates from what has already occurred, it can hamper an organization’s ability to properly evaluate truly innovative and creative alternatives.
Analytical Intelligence requires the integration and balance of the other components in order to achieve today’s complex goals like:
Accelerate Value Creation
TI-powered organizations identify and capture value faster than competitors relying on traditional change approaches.
Navigate Complexity
TI-powered organizations more easily make sense of ambiguous situations and find clarity amid uncertainty.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Rather than managing specific changes, TI-powered organizations develop the fundamental capacity to evolve continuously.
Sustain Momentum
TI-powered organizations maintain transformation energy beyond initial enthusiasm, creating sustainable evolution.
Foster Innovation Ecosystems
TI-powered organizations create environments where breakthrough thinking flourishes naturally.
Create Transformative Futures
Through strategic backcasting, TI-powered organizations envision compelling futures and develop clear pathways to achieve them.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Through our work with Jordan, we quickly shifted our focus from how we messaged top-down change to how we could engage our stakeholders authentically in a transformational process.
In just a few days, he (gently) helped us peel back the layers, revealing blind spots we never knew existed and giving us creative guidance on how to move forward.”
—VP of Analytics, Fortune 500 Technology Company
Transformation in Action: Client Success Stories
Mid-Market Consultancy
This cross-functional team needed to streamline and clarify their client communications to elevate the value they were providing. Through a Strategic Backcasting approach, Jordan guided the team to envision their ideal client relationships and work backward to identify the precise shifts in messaging and delivery needed to create those outcomes.
Transformational Intelligence™ Applied: Integration of creative visioning with analytical pathway development, resulting in a completely transformed client engagement model.
“We were blown away by Jordan’s prep and insight. He helped our analytical team embrace outside-the-box thinking by providing practical solutions that drive real client impact.”
— Chief Operating Officer
Global Medical Devices Company
Facing resistance to a major transformation initiative, this organization developed a strategic narrative that helped diverse stakeholders understand the business case for change — and what this shift in narrative would require, personally, of leaders.
Transformational Intelligence™ Applied: Integration of analytical data with emotional and social intelligence to create a narrative that addressed both logical and emotional resistance to change.
“We were so focused on the logical message we were trying to get across — we didn’t realize that we were overlooking the hidden messages we were communicating to our stakeholders. By shifting our tone, Jordan helped us be more creative and human-centered — radically shifting our impact.
— General Manager, Americas
Global Brand Marketing Team
Working in a highly technical industry, this company was struggling to take the creative risks to truly differentiate their brand. Through workshops combining Strategic Backcasting and creative intelligence, they disrupted their conventional thinking to see new paths forward.
Transformational Intelligence™ Applied: Activation of creative intelligence within a team that had previously relied exclusively on analytical approaches, resulting in breakthrough marketing initiatives.
“Jordan challenged us perfectly.
— Chief Marketing Officer
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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
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Hypothetically Asked Questions
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Traditional approaches often focus exclusively on analytical intelligence—strategies, processes, and metrics. Transformational Intelligence™ integrates analytical perspectives with emotional, social, and creative intelligences to create more comprehensive and sustainable change. This integration allows organizations to address both the visible, technical aspects of transformation and the invisible, human dimensions.
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Traditional strategic planning typically projects current trends forward (forecasting) to determine likely futures. Strategic Backcasting reverses this process by first defining a desired future state and then working backward to identify the steps needed to achieve it. This approach is particularly powerful for transformation because it frees your thinking from current constraints and assumptions, allowing for more innovative and ambitious visions.
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Not at all. Transformational Intelligence™ is designed to solve real business problems by expanding the range of resources available. The methodology doesn't replace analytical approaches but enhances them. Many organizations find that their toughest challenges persist precisely because they've been approaching them too narrowly—through analysis alone. Adding emotional, social, and creative intelligence often unlocks solutions to problems that have resisted traditional approaches.
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While some benefits are immediate—such as new insights and perspectives—developing full integration of all four intelligence domains is an ongoing journey. Most clients see significant shifts in thinking and tangible results within 3-6 months, with deeper transformation unfolding over longer timeframes. The approach is designed to create both immediate wins and lasting capability.
In short, I help you find your own answer, rather than giving what I think is the “right” one to you.
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Both. Transformational Intelligence™ can be developed at the individual leader level through coaching, at the team level through workshops and facilitation, and at the organizational level through strategic narrative and systems change work. Often, the most powerful approach combines work at multiple levels simultaneously.
Transform uncertainty into creative possibility.
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