Each year, we encourage those we support to use the end of the year as a time to slow down, go within, and take stock for this year and the next. It can seem arbitrary, but the turn of the calendar allows for an inflection point where most of the world is quieter than normal.
Read MoreIt’s easy to write platitudes celebrating gratitude for Thanksgiving week. And certainly, we do know that gratitude leads to happiness and well-being. What’s harder is to embrace the complexity of this week. To have a big enough container to hold it all.
Read MoreUsually, people come to us with a gap in mind: be it engagement, revenues, execution, or even something more vague like “scaling leadership”. What follows can be an incredibly deep exploration that results in both the transformation of the individual and the business. A hallmark of our work is depth. What does this mean, exactly? Many people working in personal growth and coaching use this term liberally.
Read MoreJoy is the cultivation of a well-lived, well-examined life - or - as the poet, Toi Derricotte said “joy is an act of resistance.” Yet, for Black and Brown folks, in particular, joy has been considered elusive. Satiated? maybe. Happy? sure. But deep down soul-filling, body-changing inarticulate joy is something not associated with Black and Brown Bodies. Yet it exists within us, even if we haven’t been taught how to recognize and nourish it.
Read MoreFewer things still have proven to be as effective at deeply developing emotional intelligence skills than the Enneagram. This personality framework holds tremendous depth and clarity about how we view ourselves and others, how we communicate under stress, what we need, want and fear most, and how we instinctively seek to influence those around us.
Read MoreThe mental model used with clients to both simplify and broaden their leadership focus.
Read MoreEvolution is a community of people who share similar values. Chief among these values is Anti-Racism, and a willingness to do our own work in the realm of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Sustainability (DEIS) individually, as a company, and as a community. While we are seeing change happen in this country in combatting racism and targeting black lives, we understand this is an ongoing fight that requires we all join in. Here is a list of resources we have compiled to help our community members continue to educate ourselves & learn how we can change society and make sure Black Lives Matter.
Read MoreWe’ve been using Zoom as our primary meeting platform, internally as well as with our clients, for about 5 years. In that time, we have learned a lot about how to create more engagement, better collaboration, and deeper connection on the platform. We consolidated our recommendations into a 20-page guidebook to support your team with practices that support presence, connection and engagement.
Read MoreBuilding a business is hard, and the gauntlets of being an entrepreneur come fast and heavy early on: clarifying an idea, building a team, finding product-market fit and scaling the organization all require initiations of both the leader and the business itself.
Read MoreMaking use of diverse input isn’t a strategy restricted to the most established companies. For any business, it’s never too early to think about diversity and inclusion.
Read MoreThe power of coaching lies in asking powerful questions that people haven’t yet asked themselves, and then helping them uncover and make sense of their answers. These questions are designed to dig deep and get to the bottom of what’s going on in any situation.
Read MoreA peek inside how our team is looking inward first. Asking questions like: What are we doing to ensure equality? Diversity? Inclusion? Are we walking our own talk?
Read MoreWhen a Culture Code is used in a clear, compelling way and is embraced and practiced by a critical mass of people in a group, it has the potential to positively transform your team, company or community and everyone in it.
Read MoreOne of the times that start-ups begin to falter is when they begin to rapidly scale. Typically once they’ve closed a B round of funding, teams grow and founders and early stage companies sometimes identify this as chaotic or worse, the time they “lost their soul.”
Read MoreMy stomach was queasy. I had so much stress in my body that I couldn’t move my neck. I wasn’t sleeping much. My nervous system was on high alert. My adrenal system was taxed. My fitness routine vanished.
Read MoreI was talking to a new CEO client about her organization. The goal was to understand the current makeup of the leadership team, important aspects of the culture, and key initiatives that were underway.
Read MoreAnxiety is in the air. It’s palpable. Many of my client’s coaching sessions are, at their core, about how a Leader can get from point A to point B in the midst of feeling stopped in their tracks by anxiety. It’s almost as though they feel that they are not allowed to feel anxiety and be a professional concurrently.
Read MoreWe are all plants stretching towards the sun. Life clings to life, even in the harshest environments. There is an impulse in every living thing to grow. And yet, growth is difficult and messy. When we’re in the midst of it, sometimes it feels like it will never end and the process feels fraught with strong emotions.
Read MoreAt some point in my lifetime — perhaps sometime in the mid 1990s — listening fell out of fashion. At least in America. Stridency rose to prominence. The loudest voice in the room seemed to prevail.
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