I am
Recover presence. Tell truer stories. Innovate at a human pace.
Recover presence. Tell truer stories. Innovate at a human pace.
What I am for
I help people experience the oneness of things.
I do it by making depth palatable across difference, helping people feel more at home with their multiple selves, holding the terror and exhilaration of being small inside something too big to comprehend, and wrestling with the Unknown.
Three ways in
Whether you lead a company, carry a life story nobody has heard yet, or want guidance in slowing down, it starts the same way. A conversation.
You arrive with a decision, a role you have outgrown, or a life running faster than you chose. We slow it to the speed of a conversation. Six of them, across three months, until you can hear what your own life has been telling you the whole time.
Before We BeginWith Samir Selmanović I co-founded Epic Ordinary, a guided memoir studio. We treat a life as sacred, write it down, and hand it back, yours to keep or read aloud at the table. You deserve your flowers while you are still living.
An Hour to Be SeenFor the past decade I have guided thousands of people from more than forty countries across every kind of industry. I talk for about a fifth of the time, because the people in the session often already know what is needed.
Bring me to your team00 — 50
Fifty-one story snippets. A Starbucks on Forbes Avenue, a pony named Honey, a marathon finish line where the whole village was waiting and then was gone, a Spanish forest where I lost the path and kept walking anyway. The same work I do with other people, done on myself first.
Jordan is what I'd call a deep listener. In a world where so many are fighting for attention, he actually gives it, and will then respond with depth, feeling, and wisdom.
Johnnie MooreFounder, Unhurried
He thrives in connecting with and guiding students from diverse global cultures and industries, which is a testament to his creative leadership and attentive presence.
Ed CrawleyProfessor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
His unhurried philosophy to helping his clients make decisions and take actions leads to accelerated change and organizational success.
John FarrellManaging Director, Carl Marks Advisors
There definitely was an unhurried, non-anxious presence Jordan brought to every interaction. It's immediately noticeable and puts people at ease.
Nidhi GuptaSenior Sales Director, Capgemini
Every week, more or less
My Substack, where I practice returning attention to what is real and then offer what I find as light you can carry. Some pieces are short and clean. Others stay with a question longer and refuse the quick fix. A few are written with no internet at all, just memory, attention, and the page.
Follow along
An open invitation
Samir and I host it on the third Thursday. Presence and story, feet on the ground, head in the clouds. People have joined from six countries and four continents to tell the truth about an object, sit with a death doula, and refuse to tidy the paradox. Come and see.
You tell me where you are and what you are up against. I tell you how I would work with it. Bring something specific if you can. A decision you keep circling. A transition you are in the middle of. A question about where AI belongs in your work.
Before We BeginIf a calendar link feels like too much, just write to me. jordan@jordansoliday.com
