Evolve With Intention.

Rooted Evolution is a holistic consulting practice that guides social and creative sector organizations and leaders through growth and change.

Activate Change.

Rooted Evolution partners with mission-driven organizations, artists, and entrepreneurs to bring their visions for change to life. We’ve got the hard skills and experience to bring pragmatic solutions to the table, and we get there through a thoughtful, intentional process rooted in core values. We customize our approach based on each client’s unique needs, with full-service options that can include group facilitation, 1-on-1 coaching, systems design, and hands-on implementation support. With each project, Rooted Evolution CEO, Laura Stein, weaves together her skills as a former nonprofit Executive Director, administrative geek, dynamic facilitator, and anti-racist organizer.

Services

  • Surface the collective dreams of your community and create a strategic roadmap for your evolution.

  • Get strategy and hands-on support with for executive leadership transitions, succession planning, organizational restructuring and other types of organizational changes.

  • Define and clarify your values and align your systems, people, and practices with your values.

  • Kickstart projects you haven’t had time to tackle with project management and hands-on support.

Strategies

  • Activate groups with creative, energized facilitation practices as part of your changemaking process.

  • Provide 1-on-1 coaching and development to support the people impacted most by change.

  • Bring dynamic training and workshop experiences to your communities such as Moving Your Vision and Building Systems That Work. We can also design a customized training for your group.

  • Design or refine new tools and systems, and get hands-on project management and execution support to bring your plans to life.

  • “Laura was the collaborative problem solver we needed to help us quickly get systems back on track when we were at a critical transition in our organization."

    - 826 New Orleans Board Chair

  • “As a veteran educator, I’ve been in hundreds of adult learning sessions. Rooted Evolution’s visioning session with Firefly Montessori was the best facilitation I’ve ever experienced!”

    - Session Participant

  • "Laura is skilled at being able to frame a challenge or situation (for better or worse) and then provide strategic next steps to build upon that moment.”

    - Be LOUD Executive Director

  • “When I work with Laura, I feel understood, honored, like I can be vulnerable, and that trying something new is exciting and possible.”

    - Make It Count Math Executive Director

Values-Driven Consulting.

Change work is hard work. It can be complicated, messy, or even painful. It can also be deeply rewarding, exciting, and filled with hope. We call ourselves a holistic consulting practice because we consider the whole self, the whole organization, and the whole community in guiding organizations and leaders through evolution. We ground our work in core practices and values:

Rooted Practices

  • Lead from your values

  • Center your community

  • Embody your learning

  • Energize with creativity

  • Unlock the genius in the room

  • Prioritize well-being

Rooted Values

  • Joy

  • Justice

  • Movement

  • Integrity

  • Creativity

  • Care