We’re solving brand new problems, plus carrying the weight of past stress and emotional wounds, which make up your daily work life.

THE CHALLENGES

We need a new set of leadership skills, ones that help us adapt to meet the level of change and uncertainty that continues to increase.

EVOLVE LEADERSHIP™
MEET CAROLYN

Leveraging the unique talents on your team can be challenging. Carolyn is here to help.

Find Your Leadership Flow: Evolve how you lead with trauma-informed and embodied leadership training.

Leaders and teams are dealing with unprecedented levels of change.

You’re not imagining it and it’s not just you. In less than a decade, the average rate of change in organizations has increased 400%.

The way we lead and operate is insufficient for this level of change and uncertainty. There aren’t best practices yet for some of our biggest challenges — like AI, effective hybrid environments, or increasing sustainability — and it’s making it impossible to know what to do next.

Employees are juggling 10 change initiatives on average per year; up from 2 per year in 2016.

— GARTNER 2022

It’s a lot.

Uncertainty can feel overwhelming and paralyzing.

As leaders, we’re taught to dig into our existing skillset to be decisive and quick as we move from issue to issue, even if we aren’t quite sure if it’s the right answer.

It’s a lot.

The dynamic within our teams starts to show the strain.

With an increase in agitation, confrontation, and team members becoming withdrawn to avoid further conflict (the classic stress response of fight, flight, or freeze).

It’s a lot.

Overwhelm and burnout often follow, sometimes without us realizing it. All of us — likely you and your team too — are also carrying emotional wounds from our past, creating unexpected stress responses. We don’t need to know what they are, but we need to act accordingly, in order to minimize their impact on how we respond to workplace challenges.

What if you could …

Traditional leadership development programs teach new skills without helping you solve the underlying stress responses that happen, often outside of your conscious control.

Until we learn the practices that help us stay calm in stressful situations, no amount of skill building will help us meet the changing needs of our leadership work.

This is what embodied leadership feels like.

You’ll move beyond emotional intelligence to develop somatic intelligence, by using your nervous system to create a new level of calm and intuition.

In addition to horizontal development (which is focused on learning more concepts), you need vertical leadership development, which focused on integrating the mindset and behaviour shifts needed for more complex problem solving.

Stay calm and even-keeled as you respond to urgent or unexpected issues? Stay grounded during turbulent times?

Have difficult conversations with your team that lead to change without leaving everyone feeling exhausted or being on the defensive?

What if you could …

Bring your team back to equilibrium quickly so they could handle difficult situations more effectively?

Establish boundaries that help you manage the expectations others place on you?

It’s not about “going faster”;

It’s providing support during your change transformation to help you and your team work more effectively,

by creating practices that remove the blocks keeping you from solving the deeper issues blocking the change from happening.

Learn personal and team practices designed to help reduce nervous system responses to change/stress while working effectively as a team.

Build skills to facilitate critical team discussions that create buy-in and engagement, not simply intellectual understanding and surface-level agreement.

Create spaces of belonging where people no longer exhausted from masking/fitting in and can be more impactful in their role.

It’s not about “going faster”;

Build a somatic toolkit, the physical and mental practices that help leaders and teams stay in an optimal state (this is science, not psycho-babble)

Understand the physiology of stress and learn skills to manage reduce your stress responses, to become less disruptive and more effective in difficult or antagonistic situations.

Learn how to lead and work from all 3 centres of intelligence — head, heart, and body — to create more opportunities for new ideas and effective solutions to be identified and implemented.

Connect with Carolyn

Just like sometimes your phone needs an operating system upgrade to work better (not more apps), your new leadership capabilities will feel like a reset of your leadership operating system, instead of only being taught a set of skills that don’t help you solve the real challenges you’re facing.​

Meet Carolyn, trauma-informed leadership consultant and practitioner, author and founder of Evolve. ​

Workplace change is similar to learning a new sport or new level of play — it can happen faster with a great coach.

As a former corporate leader, I understand the stress and challenges you and your team are in. I’m not bringing platitudes and unworkable options to our training sessions. ​

I’m a certified Dare To Lead™ facilitator and deliver impactful learning programs that help leaders embrace vulnerability, a key element for creating both psychologically and physiologically safe spaces.

I am also certified in trauma-informed coaching and consulting, and I’ve completed the Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience.

This training allows me to recognize how past stress and trauma can continue to affect us in the present. Our work together isn’t therapy — I won’t diagnose your emotional wounds. Instead, I create a space where all experiences are acknowledged, without being triggered by any stress or difficult conversations that arise.

Wondering how trauma-informed and embodied leadership can solve your team challenges?

Until we learn the practices that help us stay calm in stressful situations, no amount of skill building will help us meet the changing needs of our leadership work.

Until we learn the practices that help us stay calm in stressful situations, no amount of skill building will help us meet the changing needs of our leadership work.

Let’s Talk.

Workshops →

Sets the vision for the changes needed for today’s leadership with actions and personal practices for creating daily impact that leaders can integrate into their work. Workshops are customized to meet your company’s needs. We work with groups ranging in size from 5-500+.
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Team Development & Coaching →

Helps leaders and their teams build new skills for reducing chaos, increase connection, and improve their team dynamics needed for implementing successful transformation projects. Team programs are typically 3-6 months, with options for a mix of workshops, individual practices, and group or team coaching.
Learn more about customized programs

Executive Coaching & Advisor Support →

Guides executive leaders to embody new skills and mindsets to lead through the next phase of company evolution (e.g.,growth, mergers, new product offers, etc.). Exec programs start for 3-6 months (can be in parallel to team programs) and can extend beyond 1+ years, depending on the needs of the team.
Learn more about tailored coaching support executive development

Learn more about trauma-informed and embodied leadership

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From the Evolve Podcast with Carolyn:

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Leading with Conviction and Empathy with Sam Smith
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