H. Watson Jordan Ed D.

Dr. Jordan believes resilience is the ability to build and maintain momentum through life’s opportunities and challenges.

An international speaker, he has captivated audiences around the world with talks on Resilience, Team Building, Developing Momentum, and Discovering your WHY.

The Resilience Initiative, which he founded in 2019, promotes resilience around the world with writing and speaking. He is well known for his impromptu handstands. Team facilitation drives superior insight, understanding, and production. Group events utilize the WHY Operating System. This algorithm guides identification of individual and group zones of genius and how to leverage them.

Dr. Jordan is happily married with two children and three dogs in Asheville, North Carolina. He is an active community leader within Rotary and My Daddy Taught Me That, and is involved in global and local fitness programs like Kenzai and Hot Yoga Asheville. He holds the following degrees: MBA – Wake Forest, History – Wofford, and Ed D – Phoenix.

Watson Jordan

Watson's Presentation Topics

  • Ask a Better Question
  • Develop Resilience
  • Discover your WHY
  • Build Community
  • Transform Relationships
  • Generate Momentum
  • Energize Collaboration
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Books by Watson Jordan

As an author, his work includes Mine, Ours, and Yours: A Father’s Journey through the Life and Death of a Child, a book that explores tragic despair and unearths hopeful resilience. Published in 2021, Resilience: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Made Us Wiser and Stronger is a collection of essays from global leaders who provide thoughtful and powerful insight into how adverse conditions do indeed drive us to become wiser and stronger. His renowned 5 3 1 Resilience Plan focuses on our inner circle, community involvement, and core belief is the cornerstone of his work in Resilience.

We need to ask a better question to improve the quality of our life.
Dr. Watson Jordan
The Resilience Initiative