Align Strategy and Soul
Not everything can be solved with AI. Jordan helps improve human capacities, so leaders can create a hopeful future.
Jordan is a facilitator, author, speaker, and mentor who helps individuals and orgs come alive to uncover brilliant, innovative pathways forward.
A human pathway to a dynamic future
Business can be a catalyst for growth, beauty and dynamism, not just a race to the bottom line.
As AI redefines workflows, structures and systems, the focus shifts to the human. Capacities like judgement and vision, collaboration and creativity, resilience and adaptation have become essential for smartly navigating uncertainty and change. Beyond the buzzwords, how can these human capacities be produced? By expanding the conventional definition of intelligence—analytical—to include other intelligences: emotional, creative, physical and spiritual.
This integrated intelligence produces a practical business benefit: dynamism—the capacity to create new ideas, shift patterns and perspectives, and move people through change.
From facilitating organization-changing conversations to inspiring audiences, Jordan Bower guides business leaders to connect with the dynamism we all need to shape today’s reality of uncertainty and change into a future of hopeful possibility.
Jordan’s Work
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Strategic conversations that shift what’s possible.
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Keynotes and conversations that bridge to a human future.
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Posts, content and experiences that illuminate new pathways.
Mentor
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Soulful guidance and human skills for the future of leadership.
Strategic conversations that help leaders shift what’s possible
Facilitator
Signature Offering
X-Stasis: Overcoming Human Blockers to Move Innovation Forward
X-Stasis begins with a one-day, facilitated in-person experience for founders or owners of small-to-mid-sized businesses—and, for larger enterprises, executive leaders of business functions. The focus is guiding leaders to set a dynamic strategic agenda for their company by stepping beyond the beliefs fo the past.
Much more than a “blue-sky session,” X-Stasis works at the level of mindset, EQ and spirit to shift perspective and uncover practical solutions. It changes what you can do, and also how you think. The outcomes? Clarity achieved, decisions made, possibilities revealed, with a clear plan to put your new vision to action.
Your 1-Day Experience Includes:
Discovery research. Deep dive into your current strategy, interviews with your leadership team and core stakeholders.
Custom offsite agenda. Have the real conversations you need to have, tailored to where you actually are as a business.
New vision, narrative and plan. Clear, efficient direction, summarized in a doc that you can use to build excitement.
Skill-Building Workshops
Working with businesses and functional teams to develop critical human capacities of the future: storytelling, creative thinking, facilitation skills and more.
Sprints & Think Tanks
Guiding transformation teams to make progress with an approach rooted in experimentation, collaboration, risk-taking and creative thinking.
Off-Sites & Retreat Design
Shaping the goals, arc, themes and rhythm of leadership summits and learning journeys, balancing strategic business goals with the human element.
Immersive Formats
Unique signature experiences like hosted dinners, “HR wakes”, and curated salons that create intimate space to have real, meaningful discussions.
“He challenged us to have the discussion we all knew we needed to have and that all of us were avoiding.”
Managing Partner, Impact Investing Firm, Toronto, ON
“His ability to shift mindsets and open people to new possibilities in real.
Zach Vitztum, King’s Hawaiian, Los Angeles, CA
“It’s not just what he says, it’s how he says it. I appreciate his courage to challenge us to go futher.”
Vito Ciccerelli, CEO, Dynacare, Toronto, ON
Keynotes and conversations that recenter the human in the future
Speaker
Signature Talk
Strategy + Soul: Developing the Human Capacities for an AI Future
As AI attempts to automate everything, business will need to develop new human capacities, shifting away from linear, administrative tasks and towards dynamic abilities like judgement and creativity. So who will lead this transformation: HR or the CEO? And what does this shift ask of us at the level of mindset, EQ and even deeper currents?
Drawing from practical examples as well as insights from science and the creative arts, Jordan lays out a hopeful vision for the future of our businesses, and challenges leaders to find the deeper human courage that is required for real transformation to happen.
A Dynamic Audience Experience
Jordan’s facilitative presentation style is inseparable from his message. He engages the audience in dialogue, rather than from pre-prepared remarks, as a practical demonstration of the human capacities he discusses.
Every Talk is Different
Before every keynote or event, Jordan works with organizers to conduct research on the audience, tailoring his ideas, message and examples not only to their needs, but also to their perspective and operating context.
Bridges Business With Human
Jordan’s relatable, funny style touches business leaders at the level of their practical strategy at the same time that it nourishes their heart and soul. A perfect balance of insight, perspective shifting and human motivation.
Select Clients
Autodesk
CIBC
Electronic Arts
King’s Hawaiian
Pleo
Big Panda
Culture Amp
Federal Reserve Bank
Mölyncke Health Care
Rakuten
Cisco
Dynacare
Johnson & Johnson
Pearson Education
Volvo Cars
Canadian Tire
DHI
Government of Canada
Mozilla
Signal49
Keynotes (In-person or virtual) • Fireside chats & onstage conversations • Interactive workshops & breakouts • Custom talks based around your theme
Formats
Posts and content that illuminate new pathways for learning and growth
Creator
Jordan curates the visions, ideas and stories that move leaders to think differently about the next age of work, turning shared ideas into emotional meaningful experience.
Soulful guidance and skills for change-seeking leaders
Mentor
Alongside his work with organizations, Jordan supports individual leaders who are asking bigger questions about how they can elevate their impact across society and business through deepening their connections with themselves.
This is not conventional executive coaching. Rather, it is an intimate partnership between souls. Jordan’s expertise and nuance helps you explore the intricate relationship between how you create and communicate as a leader and how you connect with yourself.
Specific focuses of mentorship often include strategic narratives, communications styles and vision, as well as confidence, creativity and self-expression.
Alongside his experience with CEOs, founders and political leaders including city mayors and US Congressmen, Jordan is committed to working with younger and underserved populations, providing pricing that is accessible to all.
Jordan works at the level of mindset, emotional intelligence and spirit to help you build the bridge from where you are today to where you’re going.
About
A dynamic leader exploring the overlap of business and human in the Age of AI
Exploring the integration of multiple intelligences—analytical, emotional, creative, physical and spiritual—in service of the highest human goals: judgement, creativity, risk-taking and wisdom.
Jordan Bower is a Canadian entrepreneur, facilitator, speaker and creative. He is the co-founder of X-Stasis, an innovative consultancy focused on developing human capacities and using these to design transformational strategy and culture in the Age of AI. Previously, he was the founder of Transformational Storytelling, a Learning & Development consultancy that worked with 200+ organizations.
Jordan has spoken at multiple conferences worldwide including the Future of Storytelling Summit and Culture First, and has delivered keynotes, workshops and facilitated leadership conversations for leading global brands, like Autodesk, Mozilla, Rakuten, Volvo Cars and Johnson & Johnson.
Jordan’s work is built upon deep personal experience exploring the edges of transformation. In his earlier years, Jordan traveled on long trips independently to 50 countries, diving deep into the emotional and spiritual aspects of the creative arts. His personal art projects have been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail and The Huffington Post. He has spoken widely about his personal pilgrimage across America, walking 3,000 km solo and through 3 pairs of shoes.
Jordan holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and two silver medals from the World Championships of Ultimate Frisbee.
He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Contact
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Press & Media
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