Facilitated Learning Experiences led by JOrdan Bower

Transformational Team Workshops & Seminars

Jordan’s team workshops offer a structured, expertly facilitated environment for your team to explore Transformational Intelligence™ — developing tailored insights you can apply immediately to solve real team challenges.

Introducing Workshops

Explore how new mindsets, narratives, and strategies can help you solve today’s most pressing team challenges.

Over the last decade, I have facilitated more than 200 workshops for a huge range of executive, leadership and functional business teams.

In a workshop, a team sets aside normal work to spend focused time solving a specific business challenge. Often, these challenges relate to topics like communication (business storytelling), systems innovation, leadership development, or change management.

During a workshop, teams are introduced to a new skills or idea, and then given a structured environment to explore how to apply their new insights. The goal is to learn by doing, and the outcome is for each team — and every individual on the team — to develop both a practical roadmap and an emotional commitment for change.

A workshop is an excellent opportunity for a team to connect practical, pressing objectives with the broader vision of developing Transformational Intelligence™.

All workshops are tailored to the needs of a group. I facilitate every workshop.

Business Storytelling Workshop for Teams

A Business Storytelling Workshop is designed to help leadership and functional teams get outside-the-box to become more impactful in their stakeholder communication.

Morning Session: Foundations & Fundamentals

Get new ideas and facilitated guidance to think outside-the-box

Afternoon Session: Structured Practice & Integration

Apply new insights immediately to your team’s real communications challenge

Closing Session: Debrief & Tailored Next Steps

Discuss your learnings and envision a change journey to Transformational Intelligence™


Full-Day Pricing starts at $10,000


TRANSFORMATIONAL INTELLIGENCE™ IN PRACTICE

Strategic Backcasting™:
Visionary 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 Backcasting:

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.

Innovative Business Systems Redesign

Reimagine organizational structures, processes, incentives, and cultures to enable rather than constrain the expression of Transformational Intelligence.


Workshop package starts at $30,000, including detailed pre-workshop diagnostic.


Workshop Methodology

Introducing
Transformational Intelligence™

Because markets are in flux, attention spans are… huh? and AI is transforming everything.

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Traditional business storytelling training focuses on how to tell a story — by using conventional methodologies, scripts and frameworks like Situation, Task, Action, Result; Bottom Line Up Front; or more theatrical methods like the Hero’s Journey or the Pixar Story Spine.

These can be effective tools — but they all still rely on a deeper intelligence to assess who you’re trying to speak to, what you’re trying to say, and why.

My approach is to build this intelligence first. Transformational Intelligence™, my proprietary methodology, is about synthesizing four domains of human intelligence in a organizational setting to create unprecedented impact.

This workshop draws on my experience training over 200 organizations across diverse industries in the art and science of strategic storytelling:

  • Integrates Multiple Intelligence Domains - The workshop engages your team’s analytical, emotional, social, and creative intelligence

  • Focuses on Strategic Application - Connects business storytelling directly to business outcomes and organizational transformation

  • Builds Sustainable Capability - Develops skills that extend beyond the workshop to create lasting communication excellence

  • Provides Practical Tools - Offers immediately applicable frameworks that transform how your team communicates about change

“Leaders must evolve beyond being managers seeking incremental improvement to become visionaries with the courage to boldly imagine and pursue the future.”

McKinsey Quarterly, May 2023

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“What sets Jordan apart is his ability to help business people integrate emotional intelligence and strategic thinking. He helped us develop practical capabilities that transform the meaning behind our messages — not just the words that are being said.

— Chief Revenue Officer, Professional Services Firm

How My Process Works

Every workshop is tailored to your team.

We start with a detailed pre-workshop assessment.

We make sure that we’re focused on what your team really needs to learn through:

  • 1-on-1’s with selected team members

  • Analysis of current messaging — like decks, reports, emails, strategies and more

  • Uncovering specific communication challenges

  • Setting collaborative goals with team leadership

We make experiential learning the priority.

Expect to challenge existing assumptions and find new way of thinking about your real business and communications challenges

  • Examples customized to your team’s function and industry

  • Participate in paired and small group exercises with your colleagues

  • Use iterative processes to workshop real examples of your team’s work

  • Unpack deeper issues and get expert guidance towards tangible solutions

We provide you with clear implementation guidance.

After the workshop, you’ll get pinpointed and tailored recommendations on how your team can incorporate and sustain your learnings. Additional follow-up can include:

  • Structured follow-up sessions

  • Targeted leadership coaching

  • Practical tools and narratives

  • In-depth guidance for team and organizational transformation

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

Start your change journey

Explore Phase Zero™, an accessible diagnostic engagement, guided personally by master change catalyst, Jordan Bower.

Learn about Phase Zero

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About Your Workshop Facilitator, Jordan Bower.

Jordan Bower brings over 15 years of expertise in transformational storytelling to your team. His unique approach combines deep emotional intelligence with strategic insight, helping organizations navigate complex change through the power of narrative.

Jordan has worked with more than 200 organizations across sectors, from Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups, bringing a rare blend of:

  • Strategic Vision

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Creative Facilitation

  • Business Acumen

  • Change Expertise

“Jordan is unlike any consultant or coach I’ve ever met. He pushes me to go to entirely new dimensions creatively but always then returns me to Earth to take practical steps forward. Perhaps more unique, Jordan knows when to push me and when to let me find my own way. These gifts, over time, have created a very special kind of trust.

Matt Landau, CEO, Here Goes Nothin’

“I was nervous as we intended for it to be disruptive. Seems like we hit a nerve in a good way. I've heard everything from 'best speaker ever to this was long overdue. Regardless of outcome your prep and delivery was top notch and I will happily serve as a reference going forward.”

COO, Mid-Market Consultancy

“Jordan knows his material inside and out, and he communicates it wonderfully.”

Workshop Attendee, Canadian Tire Triangle Leadership Academy

Jordan’s expertise spans industries.

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

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Transform uncertainty into creative possibility.

Ready to kickstart your organization's journey to Transformational Intelligence™? I'd love to collaborate!

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Book Jordan for a Keynote Speech

Jordan regularly shares thought leadership on topics relating to Transformational Intelligence™, like leadership storytelling, creative problem solving, and emotional intelligence.

Let’s set up a call to discuss a transformational experience for your audience.


Based in Vancouver, Canada, Jordan serves clients globally through both virtual and in-person workshops and keynotes.