THE RELATIONABLE TOOLKIT
What if the most important skill in business
is not strategy, scale, or speed, but the ability to
build, sustain, and repair relationships?
In The Relationable Toolkit, Justin M. Riordan reframes leadership and culture through the lens of emotional intelligence, offering a practical, human-centered approach to how we work together. Drawing from decades as an entrepreneur, leader, and culture designer, Riordan introduces a simple yet powerful set of tools that help individuals and organizations create clarity, safety, trust, and resilience. This is not a book about being nicer. It is a book about being more effective by becoming more intentional in how relationships are built and maintained.
Through candid storytelling and nine easily accessible tools, Riordan guides readers to understand how emotional dynamics shape teams, companies, and outcomes, often more than any business plan ever will. Whether you lead a company, a team, a family, or yourself, The Relationable Toolkit shows how small, repeatable choices can transform conflict into connection, chaos into clarity, and good intentions into sustainable culture.
Are you ready to practice leadership that actually holds when things get hard?
COMING SPRING 2026
THE TOOLKIT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Justin M. Riordan, author of The Monogamy Spectrum and The Relationable Toolkit, weaves humor, empathy, and design thinking into the quiet architecture of human connection. Trained as an architect and shaped by years of entrepreneurship, he built one of the Pacific Northwest’s most successful home staging companies. Over time, his work drifted from the rooms people live in to the relationships they hope to thrive in.
Through keynote talks and interactive workshops, Justin invites leaders, teams, and couples to build trust, emotional safety, and communication that holds up under real life. His framework rises from two decades of business leadership, marriage, parenting, and personal reinvention. He teaches that relationships are like buildings, their strength depends on the structures we create and the care we give them.
At home with his husband, Joe, and their son, Dooley, Justin practices what he teaches. Connection is both art and discipline. His approach blends story, science, and heart, guiding audiences away from performance and toward genuine presence with one another.
Justin’s work is not a call to perfection. It is an invitation to be Relationable. To lead with kindness. To stay curious. To build cultures where honesty and humanity stand together with room to breathe.