Discovery Assessment
An in-depth assessment of your functional team or entire organization through the lens of emotional narrative. Gives you a precise understanding of how the emotional aspects of your organization are helping or hindering progress towards change goals and key objectives.
The Problem
Organizations are full of humans. Yet most strategy focuses on logic and structured playbooks, often obscuring the nuanced, emotional reality hidden beneath the surface. When something doesn’t work, leaders fixate on the strategic decision making rather than looking to the human element to find their solutions.
The Solution
Our Discovery Assessment puts the playbook temporarily to the side in order to properly assess the human issues at play. By bringing these issues to the surface, leaders can integrate them back into their strategic decision making, combining logic and feeling to achieve greater intelligence and more effective communication and action.
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In-depth interviews bring hidden issues to the surface
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On-site listening sessions go much deeper than engagement surveys
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Leadership facilitation digests findings and clarifies next steps
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More than solutions, we introduce new ways of thinking and working.
New strategies and skills for the new world of change.
Out with the Ordinary!
Unlike other consultants, we don’t write expensive reports or introduce abstract solutions. Our work is explicitly designed to break status quo so you can move into the reality of change. Working with us is nuanced and emotional. We help you address what’s in the way of your vision—as an individual and as an company—and translate your insight into clear, actionable steps you can take to accelerate. We’re very different. A little disarming. And we’re excellent.
Envision a Brighter Future
We help you time travel to a brighter future, using visionary frameworks that allow you to “see” beyond current limitations and accelerate your innovation. We know that vision is not a noun—it’s a verb. We’ll help you unlock yours.
Find Direction in Uncertainty
When the path forward is blocked, the first step is to address the emotions that are in the way. We help you do so practically and precisely, giving you a more intelligent perspective to guide your decisions—and how you bring others along.
Unlock Full Potential
The new world of business requires new strategies, new mindsets and new skills—not another playbook. We’ll introduce the perspectives and insights that will help your company navigate the realities of a rapidly changing world.
Our Team
Jordan Bower
C0-FounderJordan Bower is a multi-talented consultant, coach, keynote speaker, and facilitator with deep subject matter expertise in the art of storytelling. After founding Transformational Storytelling in 2013, Jordan grew a client roster of more than 200 organizations by providing trusted and precise guidance on how to communicate for engagement and impact.
Jordan has worked with teams across the organization, from executive leaders to sales, marketing, product, ops, and more. As a coach, his roster includes founders, CEOs, and US congressmen. Jordan runs our Vancouver office, supporting clients with his playful humor and vibrant creativity.
Co-FounderErwin Pearlman
Erwin Pearlman is a visionary guide who has delivered over 45,000 hours of 1:1 guidance to leaders in science, technology, business, the arts, and beyond. Erwin's work stands out for the depth of his insight and the precision with which he helps clients apply it.
For five decades, Erwin has helped his clients move beyond the threshold of change and into a more positive and creative future. Erwin runs our Los Angeles office, deepening the innovation and vulnerability we bring to all of our client engagements.
How We Work with Clients
We don’t do cookie cutter.
First Look
$15,000
A diagnostic that helps you begin to understand current challenges through an integrated logical/emotional perspective, revealing the most efficient path forward.
Initial research
Short Interviews with stakeholders
Delivers deeper understanding & a clear path forward
Completed within 2 weeks
Discovery
Starts $55,000
An in-depth assessment of your functional team or entire organization. Includes an in-person facilitated "workshop" for your leadership to begin the emotional shifts.
Detailed research
On-site observation
Extensive 1:1 interviews
Focused executive coaching
Facilitated leadership meeting
Completed within 8 weeks
Transform
Starts $120,000
Tailored transformation guidance. We work alongside you to align strategy, culture and systems with the underlying emotional reality, shifting into a new way of working.
Strategic advisory
Trainings, workshops & seminars
Facilitated leadership meetings/offsites
In-depth Executive coaching
New practices, programs, skills and tools all rooted in the history, vision, and goals of you and your business
6 months
We’d love to work together!
We know our approach is very different from most consultants. The best way to assess how it suits you is to schedule a 30 min call. We can listen to your challenges and help you properly assess how we can help.