Work with JOrdan
Strategic Narrative Consulting
From defining long-term strategy through Backcasting to aligning executive teams and building the narratives that drive change — my strategic narrative consulting can help you and your team move forward with vision.
How JORDAN HELPS
Does this sound like you?
You have a vision — but your team isn’t fully aligned and your communication isn’t landing.
You’re in the middle of disruption — and your solutions aren’t working, but you don’t know what else to try.
You’re carrying the weight of complex change — and you’re feeling emotionally isolated.
I’m here to help.
Most organizational change misses the human-level reality. We try to manage, plan, and program change — even though we know full well that the human-level of change can’t actually be managed, planned, or programmed.
A generation ago, we got away with these strategies — even despite the reality that over 70% of organizational change programs failed. But today, when change is continuous, unpredictable, and exponential, we simply can’t afford that rate of failure. — or the fear, fatigue, resistance, and disconnection that it inevitably accelerates.
My work takes an integrated approach to organizational change — meaning that I help change succeed by first helping you. From there, we can ladder change throughout your systems, strategies and narratives.
From my first hand experience working with more than 200+ companies over the last 15 years, I know that lasting change needs to start from the inside out. My work equips you and your team to unblock your vision, plan for adaptability, and lead into the creative unknown.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Jordan led us through the tough conversations that got our partners unstuck (despite our resistance). The strategy that came from that process was clear. More importantly, it was ours. Because of that, we finally actually acted on it.”
— Managing Partner, Impact Investing Firm
How I Can Help
My consulting services are a system, not a sequence. This allows me to customize every consulting engagement fluidly to meet you where you’re at and take you where you want to go. These three services below form a part of an integrated whole — the whole process begins with Phase Zero (at the bottom).
Vision & Strategy
Backcasting the Future
An innovative strategic visioning & narrative development planning process
Instead of trying to predict the future, why not create it? This is the concept behind Backcasting — a deceptively simple alternative to traditional planning.
Unlike Forecasting, which tries to predict the future based on past data, Backcasting begins with the unprecedented — and then uses the discrepancies between a future Vision of Success and the current reality to prioritize next steps and tangible, inventive actions.
Backcasting is widely used in many innovation contexts, from NASA labs to Silicon Valley firms to systems change think tanks to arts & entertainment. My guidance can help your team utilize this perspective shift to its potential.
What You’ll Get:
Align your executive team around a shared transformation vision
Translate long-term ambition into short-term action
Surface what’s in the way and create space to solve it
What It Looks Like:
Pre-work & stakeholder discovery
Facilitated leadership workshop
Post-session roadmap & vision narrative
Ideal for: strategic planning cycles, transformation initiatives, founder/CEO transitions, offsites
Story & Alignment
Transformational Narrative Coaching & Development
Build clarity, credibility, and authenticity in how you communicate vision and strategy
Instead of trying to explain a change program, why not communicate it in a way that brings it to life within those that are affected? This is the thinking behind Transformational Narrative — a new way to tell the story of a team or organization in continuous evolution.
A few decades ago, when things were relatively predictable, we used legacy communications tools like missions and goals to focus on a clear deliverable and mobilize our forces towards completing it. But today, in an environment defined by unpredictability, leaders need to continuously reconnect vision to reality — not only helping others make sense of where we are, where we’re going, and why it matters, but re-evaluating our destination as things change.
Transformational Narrative is a complex leadership tool that has been successfully used in many organizational settings — from business to politics to the military and beyond. My guidance can help you translate your legacy missions and goals into a new narrative so that strategy is felt and believed.
What You’ll Get:
Design narrative frameworks for change, vision, and culture
Coach executives for keynotes, town halls, and board-level conversations
Train leadership teams to speak in one aligned voice
Ideal for: transformation communication, leadership team alignment, culture rollout, high-stakes messaging
integration & ongoing evolution
Transformational Integration & Evolutionary Org Design
Ongoing leadership guidance for a world of continuous change
Instead of turning to AI to solve our problems — or, perhaps, in addition to it — why not develop the skills and competencies that make it easier to navigate unpredictable change? This is the concept behind Transformational Intelligence — an inner toolkit designed for the Future of Leadership.
Most traditional executives and leaders are strong with data, logic, and business rationale. What they often lack is the ability to complement that with empathy, emotion, and narrative flow — especially in times of disruption, change, or renewal. They know how to speak to head, but they got lost when engaging with the heart — and that compromises their ability to inspire adaptability, resilience, or renewal.
More than a skill, Transformational Intelligence is a synthesis of multiple forms of human knowing. The integration of these four intelligences is the foundation to today’s complex leadership goals.
My guidance can help your team unblock the barriers impeding you from navigating the human, emotional, and operational dynamics of transformation as they unfold. The benefits include: greater responsiveness, resilience, sophistication, and creativity
What You’ll Get:
Facilitate key conversations and retrospectives
Lead transformational trainings, events and experiences
Embed adaptability, resilience and renewal in organizational systems
Ideal for: post-planning integration, change enablement, cultural alignment and transformation, product and org. design innovation
READY TO GET STARTED?
Phase Zero — Your First Step
Phase Zero is a low-commitment, high-insight engagement designed to clarify your most pressing challenges, map the dynamics at play, and identify leverage points for transformation.
What you get:
Get to the heart of the human-level issues that are blocking forward functional or strategic progress
Identify leverage points for transformation
Map out next steps that suit your context, people, goals & budget
Deliverables:
Executive interviews & narrative/messaging audit
Synthesis & insight briefing
Facilitated debrief with your core leaders
Summary document and recommended next steps
Budget: $15,000 + travel