WOW. That’s the only word for it. I had so much FUN on my chairlift coaching day with Jody, and I emerged feeling so much freer, calmer, more focused, and on top of the most significant challenges in my life than I could have imagined! Can’t wait for my next session.
I highly recommend my executive coach, Lakeya Cherry, for anyone looking to improve their self-confidence, become more action-oriented, and think more strategically about their current role and future career trajectory. Working with Lakeya was a transformative experience that helped me grow both professionally and personally.
One of the things I appreciated most about working with Lakeya was her ability to push me with a sense of directness while also demonstrating compassion and understanding. She was always there to support me, even when the going got tough, and helped me to see that I wasn't alone in my journey of self-doubt.
Through our sessions together, Lakeya helped me to identify my strengths and build upon them, while also pinpointing areas for growth and helping me to develop strategies to improve in those areas. She was always available to answer my questions, provide guidance, and offer encouragement, and I felt confident knowing that I had her support every step of the way.
Thanks to Lakeya's coaching, I now feel more self-assured, focused, and empowered to take charge of my career path. I highly recommend Lakeya to anyone who is seeking to grow as a leader, build their self-confidence, and achieve their professional goals.
Britannia Bloom, Partnerships Director at Next Chapter
Lakeya is one of those rare coaches and business leaders that has it all. She has a way of communicating with entrepreneurs. In fact, Lakeya leads with the often unsaid, which screams she understands what’s really going on with entrepreneurs from a business and personal perspective. Lakeya’s insights and coaching experience with start-up companies makes her a real stand-out partner for any entrepreneur leader looking to scale their business enterprise and not lose their soul.The COVID pandemic was an unexpected catalyst that has spurned evolutionary changes in the marketplace. Nothing will ever be the same. Lakeya’s experience and insights provide a grounding perspective for business owners desiring to maintain balance in their lives as they enter the unknown territory of the future.
Ronald J. Steptoe, CMR, DABDA, CEO / Co-Founder, Warrior Centric Health, Inc
“Luke has helped me focus, prioritize, and define my role as a leader - and then take it to the next level. To be sure: He acts as a mentor, guide, and coach. But he’s also a neutral confidant; being a founder CEO can be lonely & isolating at times, and I much appreciated his outside perspective and a safe space to develop the skills, and confidence, I needed to be the strong leader I am today.”
- Shannon De Jong, Founder & CEO of House of Who
“Roth has been, single-handedly, one of the most important and educative things to happen in my tech leadership career so far. He helped me evolve my management style to better reflect the goals of the organization, as well as my own personal beliefs and values. He has an unwavering ability to get to the core of any problem and offer guidance that is practical, insightful and, as with the best of coaches, comes from true integrity."
- Owen Evans, VP Engineering, 8i.com
"When I took the CIO role on, I was viewed as a technology guy trying to help the business. Now I am known as business guy who knows how to leverage IT. In my work with Simon, I was able to expand my executive presence, sharpen my skills and get focused on my leadership legacy. As a result, I believe that I am at a different level now. I have gained credibility and a seat at the table with the executive committee and I am excited about the future."
"David has helped me identify the roadblocks that have stood in the way of my growth, clarify the areas in which my team and I do our best work, and develop a strategy to best attract and serve the clients and markets that highly value what we do. The results have been explosive!"
- John Roland, Wealth Management Advisor, Northwestern Mutual
“Janine has played an important role at HUM helping us to define our culture and then live it for real. She has put together several excellent and involving workshops for our team, including both recruiting and interviewing best practice. Janine has developed valuable insights for us, that are forming a foundational part of how we define ourselves. She is also fun and easy going to work with, and I thoroughly recommend her."
- Chris Coleridge, COO/Co-Founder, HUM Nutrition
"If you are looking for someone who understands working in the tech and start up space and also happens to be a stellar coach, Janine is it. I love working with her because she understands my world of working in a small, high-tech start up and is great at getting to the heart of any issue and pushing me towards action. Within our first few sessions together, Janine helped me to act on something I’d been struggling with for months and has continued to be a strong advocate for me and my goals.”
- Jennifer Bisser, Sr. Director, Talent and Organizational Development, Oblong Industries, Inc.
“Nothing is more critical to building a high-performing executive team than trust and the ability to process conflict. Tracy played two important roles for Loop in pursuit of having such a team..
As a 1-1 coach for our executives, she helped them process their interpersonal challenges and take a Powerful mindset into them. As a facilitator in our team sessions, she equipped us with the tools and conversational frameworks to process our issues effectively and productively move forward.
Hearing our team use the language and tools Tracy gave on a daily basis is the surest sign of the positive impact she's had on our team!”
- Jonathan Poma, CEO & Founder, Loop Returns
“Before I had a baby, my career was my whole life. Once my daughter was born and I returned to
work, I realized I needed a new way of working. I sought out a coach to help me with that big transition and found Tracy. Tracy has helped me with so much more than just navigating my new work life. She's guided me through a big promotion and my first time in the C-suite, helped me find my voice as a leader in my organization, and led me to find more time for joy in my day to day life. Her advice is both strategic and tactical and she's given me so many tools that I use on a daily basis.”
- Noelle Laing, Chief Investment Officer, Builder’s Initiative
“I’ve personally done a few of these team type personality tests and the Enneagram, by far, is the most useful to see in a TEAM context. The team has been talking about how great it was and all the little nuggets of learning they walked away with - they are all buzzing. Learning more about each other, how we operate, how our communication styles appear was incredibly beneficial for us as a leadership group. Erin was also so great at probing with the right questions and drawing conversation out of our team. Everyone walked in to Day 2 today with full hearts and we have Erin to thank for that. Truly appreciate the work and time put into the session.”
- Kathy Lee, Slack Marketing Leadership
“Evolution was an invaluable part of our leadership team’s dialogue to re-define our vision, mission and strategy. They created the space and process that led to a big unlock for company engagement.”
- Jason Wilk, CEO, Dave
“As a CFO who has worked with technology startups over the last 25 years, I have attended a lot of off-sites, and this was by far the best off-site facilitation I have ever seen. Norian and Todd helped our team connect deeply as people, not just as coworkers, creating a foundation of trust that is already paying dividends as we build our company at a blinding pace. Our leadership team could not be more pleased with both the process and the outcome, and we will definitely be doing more work with Evolution in the future.”
- Portia Kersten, CFO Firstbase
Working with Janine has been one of the most eye-opening experiences of my career. She’s an incredibly knowledgeable, experienced, empathetic, intuitive, and supportive coach and friend, and I’m very thankful to have her on my founder journey with me. I was told once that a successful founder needs a support system of at least a coach, a therapist, a mentor, an advisor, and a peer to regularly talk to, and I feel like I hit the jackpot by having it all in Janine. Even though I was a skeptical, coaching newbie, she got through to me quickly, posing questions and suggestions in a way that made sense for my logic/mathy brain. She was so impactful in a period of time I didn’t even realize I needed extra support for, and she has armed me with a level of confidence and clarity where I now truly see that my unique founder self is giving my company the absolute best chance for success. I continue to feel grateful to have Janine in my life.
- Saujin Yi, Founder/CEO at Liquid
Our executive team offsite with Caneel was the most productive day we've ever had together as a team. It will have such an amazing impact on how we go forward as leaders individually and together.
- Ariel Kaye, Founder & CEO, Parachute Home
“I found a tremendous amount of value working with Matt and Evolution. Specifically, he gave me the opportunity to reflect in a structured way and helped me create practical strategies to deploy when I was most at risk of acting out of my leadership values. Over time, he helped me habitualize those behaviors and I was able to gain a high level of trust and responsiveness from the team I worked with.”
- Amit Shah, Head of Operations and Customer Success, Virta Health
“Evolution has been instrumental in cultivating our leadership team’s dialogue about what makes Castlight unique and distilling those insights into clear actions we can take to continue reinforcing and building our culture during a time of rapid growth.”
- John Doyle, Chief Operating Officer, Castlight Health
“I have worked with Evolution continuously for well over a year, as have many of the senior people on my team, and I highly recommend Geoff, Matt and the team at Evolution. In addition to being a pleasure to work with, Geoff has been very effective as an executive coach, and he and the others at Evolution have greatly supported us with leadership development. Evolution has had a significant impact on our organization and many of its senior leaders.”
- Eldon Mayer, Senior Vice President, Questcor Pharmaceuticals
“Evolution was instrumental in helping us articulate our culture and building the necessary framework around it to help us scale successfully. They truly understand the needs of start-ups and the cultural challenges they face.”
- Mike Farley, CEO, Tile
