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Find your next North Star
Explore how I work with CEOs, founders and Leadership Teams
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Process
Leaders bring me in when the North Star goes out.
Pushing harder won’t get you to where you need to go when the plan stops working and the old goal no longer makes sense. If your company is at an inflection point, what you don’t need is more buzzwords on a wall or an AI-powered analysis. You need to move the needle, fast, without leaving people behind.
My work treats organizations as living systems that need three competencies to evolve: the ability to imagine where to go next, how to make current structures and systems more effective, and to deliberately let go of what no longer serves.
The result is an organization that can keep changing without burning out, and a team that feels energized by the change, not worn down by it.
3 Phases of an Evolving Organization
Backcasting (Visioning)
Most strategic planning starts with what’s feasible and stops there. Our work begins with where your leadership team actually wants to go, then works backwards to reimagine what can be possible. The result is a motivational direction people can feel, not just words on a wall.
Innovating (Systems Change)
Change management no longer works when change never stops. Facilitating between your strategy and people teams, I design solutions and programs that shift skills and systems at the same time. The result is the capacity to make sense of change, shape it and bring people along on the journey—rather than just reacting to it.
Composting (Endings)
Most organizations hoard old goals, beliefs and projects long after they’ve stopped serving them, wasting time and energy without seeing what’s dragging them down. I help leadership teams talk honestly about endings and retire what’s done, which frees up energy and optimism for what’s next.
Step One
Discovery
I start by listening. In confidential one-on-one conversations with your leaders and key people, I find out what’s really going on: where the energy is, where it’s stuck, and what no one is saying out loud.
Step Two
Design
Together, with all relevant stakeholders, we unpack and assess what fundamental shift is on its way. My work gets beneath the surface issues to address the emotional and psychological layer, often resulting in a sense of shared empowerment and possibility.
Step Three
Delivery
Working as your advisor and creative partner, I develop and often facilitate systematic interventions, like workshops, think tanks and innovation teams that give you the skills, will and vision to move forward.
It’s so hard to describe what I do directly, because it changes substantially from client to client. The value I provide comes from the quality of my insight into the problem as much as it does from the solution. A typical engagement runs for about 6-9 months. There is no typical outcome. Ultimately, I work as your partner to help tailor the solution that you need—whether you know it yet or not.
A few kind words.
“Jordan knows when to help me and when to let me find my way. These gifts, over time, have developed a special kind of trust.”
Founder, Travel Industry
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