for change-ready leadership teams

The Resilient Organization Workshop

Build the Five Capabilities Your Leadership Team Needs to Thrive in Uncertainty

introducing the resilient organization workshop

The Resilient Organization Workshop develops the 5 core capacities leadership teams need to turn uncertainty into competitive advantage rather than just surviving disruption.

who the resilient organization workshop is for

A workshop for leaders who sense they need something deeper than conventional team building or strategic planning

Executive teams ready to operate from a completely different paradigm during uncertainty and chaos.

Leadership teams of fast-growing companies where change is the only constant and traditional approaches are breaking down.

Organizational functions and change management facing major transitions, like mergers, pivots, market disruptions, or growth.

Teams that are high-performing but hitting limits with their current approaches to complexity and change.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“This wasn't typical leadership development. Jordan helped us discover capacities we didn't know we had. Our decision-making has been fundamentally different since the workshop."

— CEO, Mid-Sized Tech Company

workshop overview

About The Resilient Organization Workshop

Build the Five Capacities Your Leadership Team Needs to Thrive in Uncertainty

Your leadership team knows something fundamental has shifted.

The old playbooks don't work when AI can reshape your industry overnight, when supply chains collapse without warning, when your best people burn out from constant change.

Most leadership teams are trying to solve this with better planning, more data, or resilience training for individuals. But the real challenge isn't individual — it's systemic. It's whether your organization as a whole can sense, decide, communicate, adapt, and sustain performance when everything is uncertain.

Some organizations are thriving in this chaos. They're not the ones with better forecasting models or more sophisticated frameworks. They're the ones whose leadership teams have developed five core capacities that allow them to navigate uncertainty as a competitive advantage.

What resilient leadership teams can do that others can’t

  • Sense what's emerging before it becomes obvious. They feel shifts in their market, their people, and their environment before these changes show up in the data. They position for what's coming rather than react to what already happened.

  • Make clear decisions with incomplete information. They don't wait for perfect data. They've learned to integrate multiple forms of intelligence—analytical, intuitive, and experiential—to choose direction quickly and confidently.

  • Create alignment during chaos. When external conditions are shifting rapidly, they can help their people make sense of contradictory information and maintain coherence even when the path isn't perfectly clear.

  • Change course while maintaining direction. They adapt fluidly to new conditions without losing their core purpose or confusing their teams. Change becomes strategic rather than reactive.

  • Sustain performance through extended uncertainty. Instead of burning people out, they create more capacity than they consume. Their teams get energized by challenge rather than exhausted by it.

What your leadership team will walk away with

  • Shared vocabulary for navigating uncertainty together. No more confusion about whether you're dealing with a crisis or an opportunity. Clear language for what you're sensing and how to respond.

  • Individual and team resilience profiles. Detailed assessment of where each person and the team as a whole currently operates across the five capacities, with specific development priorities.

  • Practical tools you can use immediately. Decision-making protocols for incomplete information. Sensing practices for early pattern recognition. Communication frameworks for maintaining alignment during change.

  • 90-day resilience development plan. Specific practices, check-ins, and milestones for building the capacities your organization needs most. Implementation support to ensure momentum continues.

  • A team that thrives on uncertainty rather than being depleted by it. The confidence that comes from knowing you can navigate whatever comes next, together.

investment & Logistics

  • $25,000 for two full days
    Includes pre-workshop assessment, all materials, individual resilience profiles, team development plan, and 90-day implementation support.

  • 8-15 participants maximum
    Designed for intact leadership teams who work together regularly and need to navigate uncertainty collectively.

  • Your location or ours
    We can facilitate at your offices or at a retreat location that supports deep work and honest conversation.

  • Follow-up support included
    30-day and 60-day check-ins to ensure implementation momentum and address emerging challenges.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"Jordan challenged our team perfectly. We didn't just learn new concepts—we experienced what it feels like to lead from a different place inside ourselves."

— Managing Partner, Impact Investment Firm

Storytelling Frameworks and Concepts

How The Resilient Organization Workshop Works

This two-day intensive will transform how your team operates under pressure.

Morning 1: The New Reality

  • Why traditional approaches to uncertainty are failing

  • Introduction to the Five Capacities Framework

  • Individual assessment: Where is your leadership currently?

Afternoon 1: Collective Mapping

  • Collective assessment: Where are we strong and vulnerable as a team?

  • Understanding your organization's current resilience profile

  • Identifying the gaps that create the biggest risks

Morning 2: Experiencing the Five Capacities

  • Sensing exercises: Learning to read patterns before they crystallize

  • Decision-making under pressure: Choosing direction with 70% certainty

  • Communication practice: Creating coherence from complexity

Afternoon 2: Building Your Resilience Plan

  • Designing practices that strengthen your weakest capacities

  • Creating shared language and protocols for uncertainty

  • 90-day implementation roadmap with specific milestones

what makes this workshop unique?

It's the only resilience workshop that treats uncertainty as a learnable skillset rather than something to manage or endure.

Most leadership development assumes stable conditions and teaches you to plan better or communicate clearer. This workshop teaches you to thrive when those approaches break down - to sense what's emerging, decide with incomplete information, and actually get energized by complexity instead of exhausted by it.

You're not learning to cope with uncertainty - you're learning to use it as fuel for breakthrough thinking and competitive advantage.

"Our team went from feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty to actually getting energized by it. We're spotting opportunities our competitors are missing."

— Chief Operating Officer, Professional Services

"Our team went from feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty to actually getting energized by it. We're spotting opportunities our competitors are missing."

— Chief Strategy Officer, Financial Services Firm

"This workshop didn't just change how we work together—it changed how we think about change itself. Our team has become the one others come to when things get complex because we've learned to find clarity in chaos."

— VP of Product Development, Healthcare Technology Company

Meet Jordan Bower

Narrative facilitator. Change consultant. Transformation leader.

Jordan Bower has spent 15 years developing approaches that help leaders navigate uncertainty by accessing intelligence most people don't know they have. Through working with 200+ teams across industries, he's discovered that the organizations that thrive in chaos are those whose people can create clarity and alignment through communication, not just deliver information effectively.

storytelling Workshop Clients

Book a discovery call with jordan

Ready to build a leadership team that thrives in uncertainty?

The question isn't whether more disruption is coming—it's whether your team will be prepared for it.

In our 30-minute planning call, we'll assess whether this workshop is right for your team and design an approach that addresses your specific challenges and context.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Most workshops teach you to plan better or build individual resilience. This develops your team's collective capacity to outperform when traditional approaches fail. You learn to sense market shifts before competitors, make strategic decisions with incomplete data, and turn disruption into competitive advantage. It's leadership development for conditions where conventional playbooks break down.

  • Teams report faster strategic decision-making, earlier identification of market opportunities, and sustained high performance during extended uncertainty. Most importantly, you become the leadership team others look to during crisis because you've developed capacity to thrive where others struggle. Your organization gains strategic advantage through superior navigation of complex conditions.

  • Intact leadership teams of 8-15 who need to navigate uncertainty collectively. Executive teams ready to operate from a fundamentally different paradigm. Leadership teams of fast-growing companies where change is constant. Organizations facing major transitions or market disruption. High-performing teams hitting limits with current approaches to complexity.

  • Every exercise uses your actual strategic challenges, stakeholder dynamics, and market conditions. We begin with leadership interviews and analysis of your current decision-making patterns. For tech companies, we focus on rapid iteration under uncertainty. For traditional industries, we emphasize sensing market transformation. All practice is with real stakes, not hypotheticals.

  • Yes. This work requires the ability to read group dynamics in real-time and adapt the content based on what's emerging in the room. That level of responsiveness and depth can't be standardized or delegated. For enterprise engagements involving multiple workshops, I lead the core sessions while occasionally bringing in carefully selected associates for supporting components.

  • Two-day intensive plus 90-day implementation support. Includes pre-workshop assessment, materials, individual and team resilience profiles, structured 30 and 60-day check-ins, and additional resources. Real transformation happens when you're applying these capacities to live strategic challenges, which is why implementation support is essential.

  • Absolutely. Many clients begin with their senior leadership team to demonstrate results, then cascade these capacities throughout the organization. We've helped companies embed the five capacities across departments, creating consistent approaches to uncertainty and change. The goal is building organizational resilience where these capacities become part of how your company naturally operates, not just something leadership knows about.