Jordan Berman

Building better workplaces by strengthening cultures, leadership, communication, and strategy.

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Building better workplaces by strengthening cultures, leadership, communication, and strategy.

CONNECT WITH JORDAN TODAY
Jordan Berman

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We transform your organization by developing better leaders, enhancing communication, strengthening organizational cultures and improving strategic plans. Unlock your team’s potential with thought provoking and engaging training, personalized coaching, strategic advisory, and powerful keynotes. Discover how we can turn your challenges into opportunities for growth.

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Jordan Berman

Our Founder & President

Jordan is a former global executive with extensive experience in leadership and organization development, culture and change management, strategic planning, reputation management and communications.

He has served as a trusted advisor to some of the world’s leading organizations and dozens of CEOs, helping them to develop and launch new strategies and plans, effectively navigate change and transformation, evolve their organizational cultures, increase their employee engagement and successfully manage a number of high-profile issues and global crises.

Jordan is a highly rated corporate trainer and facilitator, sought-after keynote speaker and successful coach, who has helped thousands of people become better leaders and communicators.

Jordan holds a joint Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management and the Schulich School of Business, has taught at the Schulich School of Business, and is Senior Faculty in Executive Education for the school. He is the author of The Trust Trifecta: A Leader’s Guide to Hitting the Trust Jackpot, focused fostering high trust cultures. His book reached #1 on Amazon in a leadership and management category.

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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Blog

  • Your monthly SHIFT – October 2024

    Many of us have experienced stress at work. But when a leader and the workplace that supports them is so toxic that an employee must go on medical leave, this should be disturbing and unacceptable to all of us.

  • Your monthly SHIFT – August 2024

    At SHIFT, we are passionately focused on one thing: building better workplaces. To achieve this, we require a partnership with people just like you - open minded thinkers who are ready to challenge old [...]

  • University leaders fail crisis management 101

    When the Presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania provided testimony at a recent congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses, they demonstrated, among many other things, the ability to successfully create an organizational crisis with significant, negative fallout.

  • Can you really prepare for a crisis?

    Can you really prepare for a crisis? As someone who has managed several organizational crises, I am often this asked this question, and the answer is a resounding yes. The more salient question is why should organizations take the time to prepare and how should they go about it?

  • The Culture Code: Unlocking transformation in your workplace

    Ask most leaders these days and they will tell you that they continue to evolve their organization’s cultures. The reasons for this focus are many and diverse. Organizational changes, leadership transitions, new operating models, and mergers and acquisitions are just a few catalysts driving this ongoing interest and need.

  • Natural born leaders are a myth

    Is there such a thing as "natural born leaders?" No. There I said it. Why? Well to be honest, this has just not been my experience. I’ve coached hundreds of leaders during my careers and that concept alone (that they are strengthening an existing skill, learning a new skill etc.) conveys the point that leaders aren't born with everything they need.

Hear From Impacted Businesses & Individuals

“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

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