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.

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.

Clients & Projects.

Since 2023, Rooted Evolution has worked on a wide variety of projects, ranging from executive leadership transition support, organizational restructuring, workshop design and facilitation, team retreat facilitation, and strategic planning. Recent projects have included:

826 New Orleans
Navigated an executive leadership transition with interim management and financial leadership support.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
Designed and implemented an organizational restructuring plan to promote financial and people wellness.

CLR Advising
Conducted institutional funder prospect research for CLR’s client, a member-led social justice organization.

Emergency Legal Responders
Facilitating a strategic planning process to support the organization’s evolution.

Laureus Foundation
Coached the New Orleans Program Officer and co-designing an annual workplan and resourcing strategy.

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A group of workshop attendees creating a collage about their identities with magazine clippings.

National Council of Jewish Women, New Orleans
Facilitated two deep listening sessions for members about Israel and Palestine.

Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation
Mentored social entrepreneurs; designed and facilitated a new workshop series, Building Systems That Work For Your Small Business.

ResourceFull Consulting
Created a style and operations guide for grant writers; co-facilitated a strategic planning process for the Samuel B. Stewart Foundation.

Strangeland: A Project of Common Era
Designed and facilitated a new workshop series, Moving Our Jewish Stories, using creative and embodied practices to explore Jewish identity.

The Urban Conservancy
Designed and facilitated a board and staff retreat focused on long-term planning and visioning.

Tulane Library Special Collections
Designed and facilitated a two-day staff retreat focused on team building and collective goal-setting.

Sliding Scale Pricing.

Rooted Evolution operate on a sliding scale in an intentional effort to distribute resources equitably between organizations we work with. We approach pricing as a conversation based our client’s specific needs. General guidelines for the sliding scale are:

$125/hr

Solidarity rate* for artists, organizers, and organizations experiencing financial instability.

$160/hr

Rate for organizations with budgets under $1 million.

$200/hr

Rate for organizations with budgets over $1 million.

*For individual artists and solopreneurs, Laura will also offer a free 60-minute coaching session, and may consider a skill trade arrangement for follow-up sessions.