Meet Jordan Bower
With 15+ years experience at the intersections of strategy and culture, learning and change, my work moves people beyond outdated mindsets and guides human systems into the future.
Founder, X-Stasis
Jordan’s Story
When I was 26, I quit my career job and set off on a profound personal exploration. Living on less than $10,000 a year, I traveled the world, giving myself a first-hand experience of the depth and breadth of human culture. I studied with great teachers, read brilliant texts and honed my skills as a storyteller; I traveled to 50 countries and I walked by myself across America. Then one day, I woke up when I was 33 and saw that my bank account was empty. It was time to take all that wisdom I had gained and apply it back to the real world.
In 2013, I founded a business called Transformational Storytelling and set off to teach communications skills to business leaders. Without any entrepreneurial experience, I somehow found a way to acquire Fortune 500 clients and develop a reputation as one of the experts in my field. As I gained experience with more than 200 businesses, including global companies like Autodesk, Mozilla and Rakuten, I continued to push the envelope for how I could apply the lessons my inner journey to the goals and objectives that my clients aimed to achieve in the world.
Then, in March, 2020, my business came to a screeching halt, as the COVID-19 pandemic sent the whole world into lockdown. While most of my colleagues rushed to take their content online, I decided to step back and re-imagine how I provided my value. This challenging journey to re-imagine myself, again, in my late-thirties, reminded me of the enduring wisdom that nothing in life is static.
This was the birth of my new initiative: X-Stasis—a business focused on continuous change.
Reimagination is not easy. It takes courage, creativity, and hope. Though emotional capacities like these have been traditionally thought of as “fluff,” my work emphasizes that these capacities are just as important as analysis and planning to true transformation. In my work with companies today, I help leaders hold the balance: between thinking and feeling, and between the best parts of the past and the most innovative aspects of the future.
“There is no right way to do what you have never done.”
