Experienced practitioners for consequential organizational work.
Complex leadership and organizational challenges rarely fit neatly inside one discipline.
They can involve strategy and structure, leadership and relationships, organizational culture, human behavior and the particular realities of an industry or institution.
Evolve brings together experienced organizational advisors, coaches, facilitators and specialists whose expertise can be matched to the work an organization actually needs.
A multidisciplinary practice
Our people bring experience across organizational development, executive leadership, coaching, strategy, human resources, entrepreneurship, engineering, innovation, finance, design and other disciplines.
That breadth matters because organizations do not experience leadership, culture, strategy and execution as separate problems.
We work collaboratively, bringing together different perspectives when the situation requires them and staying focused when it does not.
The team follows the work, not the other way around.
Depth of practice. Breadth of perspective.
Evolve's practitioners have worked inside and alongside organizations across sectors including architecture, engineering, construction, real estate, energy, technology, media, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, higher education and the social sector.
Our coaches bring rigorous professional preparation in leadership and human development. Our advisors contribute experience leading organizations, functions and complex initiatives themselves. Many have worked across industries, cultures and organizational settings.
Across the practice, our work draws from disciplines including organizational development, adult development, systems thinking, neuroscience, depth psychology, linguistics, human factors and organizational learning.
We combine developmental depth with the practical judgment required to work inside real organizations.
How we work together
Evolve operates as a networked practice.
Some engagements are led by a single senior practitioner. Others require a team with complementary expertise. A leadership-development initiative may bring together program design, assessment, facilitation and coaching. Organizational work may combine advisory, diagnosis and facilitation. A complex transition may require different expertise at different stages.
The model allows us to build around the client rather than forcing every engagement through a fixed consulting team.
Our practitioners also learn from one another, sharing perspectives, practices and experience across the network.
Clients get the intimacy of a senior-led engagement with access to a broader bench when the work requires it.
Meet the people behind Evolve
Our network brings together organizational advisors, executive and team coaches, facilitators and specialists with complementary experience and expertise.
What connects us is a shared commitment to rigorous development, thoughtful practice and organizations in which people and performance can strengthen one another.
Leadership
JILL L. BARRETT, PCC
Founder & Managing Partner
Jill advises CEOs, senior leaders and executive teams during consequential periods of growth, transition and change. She brings an organizational and developmental lens to questions of leadership, team effectiveness and organizational capacity, helping leaders see what the moment requires and build the conditions to meet it.
JEREMY SPAULDING
Managing Partner
Jeremy brings more than twenty years of experience at the intersection of engineering, human factors, innovation and business. He brings a systems and commercial lens to Evolve's work, helping leaders understand how people, technology, operations and organizational conditions interact in complex environments.
Our Practitioner Network
JULIE ALLEN, PCC
Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant
Julie brings experience across coaching, consulting, technology and entrepreneurship, with a deeply whole-person approach to leadership development. She helps conscientious, empathic leaders navigate complexity and pressure with greater clarity, groundedness and authenticity, drawing on cognitive, emotional and somatic ways of knowing.
RUDI DOKU, PCC
Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant
Rudi works with senior leaders and leadership teams facing pressure, complexity and significant change. He brings particular depth in executive communication, presence and human behavior, helping leaders recognize the patterns shaping how they respond when stakes are high and expand their capacity for choice and effective action.
MICHELLE DOAN, ACC
People & Organization Advisor / Leadership Coach
Michelle brings more than 15 years of HR and talent leadership across technology, real estate and other complex organizations. She works at the intersection of leadership development and people systems, helping leaders strengthen individual capacity while building the talent, leadership and organizational conditions that support performance.
AÏCHA DOUCOURÉ, ACC
Executive & Leadership Coach
Aïcha brings more than 15 years of experience leading global strategic initiatives alongside deep expertise in coaching, communication and human development. She helps leaders strengthen self-awareness, navigate difficult conversations and build stronger relationships, drawing on cognitive, emotional and somatic intelligence to lead with greater clarity and care.
SARAH-MARIE HOPF, PCC
Leadership Coach & Facilitator
Sarah-Marie works with leaders navigating transition, complexity and significant thresholds, helping them lead with greater presence, clarity and trust. She combines deep developmental and mindfulness practice with substantial experience in executive assessment, institutional change and human-centered design.
JOY KHOO, MCC
Executive Coach & Facilitator
Joy helps leaders deepen self-awareness, navigate change and pressure and lead with greater presence, resilience and connection. Her whole-person approach integrates neuroscience, mindfulness, creativity, nature and embodied practice, bringing distinctive developmental depth to executive coaching and facilitation.
JANICE MUÑIZ, PCC
Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant
Janice brings more than 20 years of executive coaching experience alongside firsthand experience leading organizations herself. She helps senior leaders navigate complexity, transition and pressure while developing the clarity, presence and inner capacity to lead people and organizations more effectively.
ANGELLA OKAWA, PCC
Leadership & Team Coach / Facilitator
Angella helps leaders and teams navigate complexity, difference and difficult relational dynamics with greater clarity and connection. Drawing on cross-cultural experience, deep human-behavior expertise and a background in design, she helps groups work through difficult conversations, repair strained relationships and build genuine collaboration.
RITU ROHATGI, MCC
Executive Coach & Leadership Capacity Builder
Ritu combines senior business experience with deep expertise in executive coaching, leadership development and organizational effectiveness. Drawing on decades of work across strategy, operations, people and culture, she helps executives and teams strengthen strategic leadership, navigate change and build the capacity required for larger and more complex challenges.
DEIRDRE SORACI, PCC
Executive & Team Coach / Facilitator
Deirdre brings more than 20 years of global experience to her work with senior leaders and teams navigating transition, growth and increased responsibility. She combines executive coaching, team development and facilitation to strengthen individual leadership and how teams work together.
PERRI STRAWN, PCC
Executive Coach & Leadership Development Advisor
Perri brings deep experience developing senior leaders and building leadership programs in healthcare, higher education and other complex institutions. A former executive with The Advisory Board Company and EAB, she combines organizational experience with developmental coaching, facilitation and leadership-program design.
STRYK THOMAS, ACC
Executive Coach & Strategy Advisor
Stryk brings 20 years of corporate strategy experience and a broad perspective shaped by work across industries and cultures. He helps executives and founders connect personal development with the strategic choices, complexity and responsibilities of leadership.
JENNIE TRANTER, ACC
Executive Coach & Consultant
Jennie combines more than 25 years of international organizational experience with deep training in coaching, counseling and depth psychology. She helps leaders understand the patterns shaping how they lead and develop greater clarity, resilience and choice as they navigate complex professional environments.
BRAD WEYANT, PCC
Executive & Team Coach
Brad combines the perspective of an operating entrepreneur with deep experience coaching leaders in technical and complex organizations. His background spans construction, engineering, energy and business ownership, giving him an unusually practical lens on leadership, team dynamics and the realities of building and running organizations.
DAN WINTER, PCC
Executive & Team Coach / Organizational Consultant
Dan brings more than 30 years of experience across organizational leadership, executive coaching and team development, including nearly three decades at Intel. He helps senior leaders and teams navigate complex change, strengthen how they work together and build the organizational capacity required for what comes next.