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 develops leaders, teams and talent to innovate and foster impactful change. As Founder and Managing Partner at Evolve Impact, she guides a team of over 30 experienced coaches who collaborate with clients, using adult learning methodologies, to facilitate... **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**

**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 serves as the Director of Venture Catalyst at the University of California, Davis. In this role, he focuses on driving the commercialization of UC Davis research innovations and fostering venture creation to generate meaningful impact and support economic 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, CPA, CFF

Andrea is the Chief Financial Officer at HumanSide, a learning design and culture development organization dedicated to helping companies enhance their workplace effectiveness. Before joining HumanSide, Andrea played a pivotal role at PPL, where she was brought on in 2018 t … Read more