Being the change.

Leadership Team and Internal Associates

No cookie cutter solutions here. Together, we’ll co-create the change plan you need.

**JILL L. BARRETT, MPP, PCC**
**Founder & Managing Partner**
Jill founded Evolve in 2015 to support the coaching and organizational development needs in the greater Washington, D.C. region. For her work, she was named a top innovator shaping the city's future for two years in a row by Washington Life Magazine. Today, Jill leads... **Read more**

Ashley Behnke, Facilitation Lead for Evolve Consulting and Startup Coaching Programs — **ASHLEY BEHNKE**
**Facilitation Associate**
Ashley is an experience designer and seasoned facilitator with a passion for working with diverse people to move everyone harmoniously toward a common goal. She brings more than eight years of experience developing and running retreats, workshops and special… **Read more**

**KRYSTAL BOWIE**
**Facilitation Associate**
Krystal is an engaging, confident, and passionate facilitator with a wealth of experience in education, real estate and dyslexia support. Her exceptional communication, organization, collaboration skills and commitment to inclusive practices position her as a valuable… **Read more**

Amy Mayers, Research Lead for Evolve Consulting and Startup Coaching Programs — **AMY MAYERS**
**Organizational Research and Communications Associate**
Amy is a researcher and creative strategist who helps mission-driven organizations, leaders and entrepreneurs translate their vision into reality. Her passion is working with innovators who are creating new models to take the world into a healthier, more positive future. Amy delights in… **Read more**

Evolve COO for the human side of organizational assessments for growth stage VC — **JEREMY SPAULDING**
**Managing Partner**
Jeremy is an industrial engineer and human factors expert who has spent his entire career studying people. His focus has been on understanding human capabilities and limitations related to engineering and sociotechnical systems design. He has researched and applied… **Read more**

Board of Advisors

Evolve’s Board of Advisors support the company by highlighting and co-developing areas of opportunity, sharing expertise and industry best practices, co-hosting conversations and providing concrete feedback so that our leadership team can more efficiently and effectively reach the objectives and key results of the organization.

**JOSH BOWIE, MBA**
Josh is a highly accomplished Strategy and Business Intelligence Leader with experience driving innovation, growth and operational excellence. He excels in data-driven decision-making, cross-functional collaboration and program optimization, consistently delivering exceptional results, achieving ambitious… **Read more**

Evolve Impact Board Member Jennifer Christian Murtie — **JENNIFER CHRISTIAN MURTIE, MBA**
Jen is a partner at Ballentine Partners and leads the firm’s High Net Worth Practice which caters to clients with $3.5 million to $25 million of investable assets. The team provides a fully integrated approach to financial planning and investment management. The team also provides clients access to… **Read more**

Traci Trotter-Hughes, Board Member for Evolve, a top executive coaching company — **TRACI L. HUGHES-TROTTER, ESQ**
Traci is Co-Founder of DEI Solutions, a consulting firm whose mission is to help businesses build globally diverse workplaces with culturally equitable outcomes—so that everyone has a seat at the table. Traci is also Executive Director at All Souls Church Unitarian. Previously, Traci was the… **Read more**

Karl Jessen, Board Member for Evolve, a top executive coaching company — **KARL JESSEN, MBA**
Karl is the Executive Director - Faculty of Science at The University of British Columbia. In this role, Karl leads innovative research and commercialization efforts with corporate collaborators and government partners. Previously, he was responsible for leading the development… **Read more**

ALI QURESHI, MBA

Ali is COO of NuAxis Innovations, where he is responsible for operations to support the execution of strategy for enabling high quality customer service delivery, happiness of team members and organic business development. Ali brings over two decades of experience... Read more

Andrea Tecce, Board Member for Evolve, a top executive coaching company — **ANDREA TECCE, CPA, CFF**
Andrea is Chief Strategy and Customer Officer at Public Partnerships | PPL. Andrea had a distinguished 25-year career at Navigant Consulting where she held several positions, which included Chief Operating Officer for the Global Legal and Technology Solutions practice, Segment Controller… **Read more**