About Jordan
I spent eight years teaching secondary-school English in Lagos. The hardest audience I have ever had was a room of sixteen-year-olds at 2pm on a Friday, and everything I do on stage I learned from them.
Why questions
In my third year of teaching I wrote one question on the whiteboard and left it there all term: "What would have to be true?" I meant it for essays. My students started using it for everything: their grades, their football team, a fundraiser nobody thought would work.
In 2014 a state education conference asked me to talk about it for twenty minutes. A sales director was in the audience with her daughter's teacher, and a month later I was in front of her team. I have been in front of somebody's team most weeks since.
I still teach one evening class a term. It keeps me honest: a keynote that would not work in that room does not go on a stage.
From the classroom to the stage
Starts teaching secondary-school English in Lagos.
First paid keynote, at a state education conference, for 400 teachers.
Leaves the classroom to speak and run workshops full time.
Qualifies as an executive coach; starts working with sales leadership teams.
Publishes "The Possibility Question" with Calloway Press.
More than 300 events in 17 countries, for audiences from 12 to 9,000.
In numbers
312
events since 2014
17
countries
9,000
the largest room
4.8 / 5
average organiser rating
Certified executive coach. M.Ed., Westbrook University. Author of "The Possibility Question" (2022).
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