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Jordan Berman
Our Founder & President
Jordan is a former global executive whose extensive experience with Fortune 500 companies, government, family-owned privately held companies and public sector organizations, gives him a unique advantage in the work he does.
He has been where your organization is right now: as an employee, as a leader, as an executive and, as a consultant. This enables him to bring real-world experience, lessons learned, best practices, and powerful insights to every client engagement.
Jordan’s focus includes four key areas: Organizational change, culture and engagement; leadership development; communications; and strategy.
He has served as a trusted advisor to some of the world’s leading organizations delivering concrete, sustainable results, and has served more than 2,000 leaders through his learning and development programs.
His is a highly rated trainer, sought after keynote speaker, successful coach and author of #1 selling book focused on fostering high trust workplace cultures.
Jordan holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management and the Schulich School of Business, is Senior Faculty in Executive Education at the school, and a member of Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council.
The Trust Trifecta
At its core, leadership is all about cultivating and maintaining the trust of others. This is the only way as a leader you will be able to gain support for a vision, strategy or the implementation of an organizational plan.
Much has been written about trust, but not about fostering it through meaningful connections built on powerful and impactful communication and relationship-building.
This type of communication helps to build high-trust leaders and organizations and delivers concrete results: higher employee engagement, better aligned organizations, more collaborative workforces, lower rates of attrition and stronger business performance.
Backed by compelling research, tangible examples and personal anecdotes, The Trust Trifecta explores leadership and connection-building through a new lens: communication.
It provides a roadmap for understanding the drivers of trust, trust eroding behaviours, and key factors that can help or hinder your communication style and impact.
Whether you are leading one person or one hundred thousand people, a team, department, function or entire organization, you must have trust to get your job done.
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Hear From Impacted Businesses & Individuals
This was one of the most impactful and valuable training sessions I have attended.
William Goh – Director, IT Customer Engagement & Business Partner, Celestica, Singapore
I would highly recommend Jordan as a speaker to inspire current or future leaders; you won’t be disappointed.
Sandra Ferri – President & CEO, Aurora Chamber of Commerce
Your facilitation skills are excellent – you so capably keyed into the ideas from the group and connected them to the topic at hand.
Jill Vienneau – Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Infrastructure
I thought you did a masterful job covering a wide range of ground while still leaving good time for audience questions.
Ray Novak – Chief of Staff for Prime Minister Stephen Harper