Evolving Strategies, LLC

Founded in 1999, Evolving Strategies helps leaders, teams and organizations learn, lead and change. Clients include Accenture, Ashland Inc., Bank of Oklahoma Financial, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), East West Bank, Northern Trust Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Spencer Stuart, Thomson Reuters, United Airlines, the United States federal government, and Zebra Technologies.

Founder

Forbes Coaches Council

Forbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only organization comprised of leading business coaches and career coaches. Members are hand-selected by the Council’s selection committee.

Official Member

PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in New York. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of its products. 

As of January 2021, the company possesses 23 brands that have over US$1 billion in sales annually. PepsiCo has operations all around the world and its products are distributed across more than 200 countries, with annual net revenues of over US$70 billion. PepsiCo is the second-largest food and beverage business in the world based on net revenue, profit, and market capitalization, behind Nestlé.

As part of the CIO transition, I led a team of employees and consultants to build the initial change management office (CMO) to enable the global technology organization to support Pepsico's digital transformation journey.

Global Information Technology | Strategy & Transformation Team | Senior Director

Northwestern University

Served as faculty for 'Executing Strategic Change,' a core, graduate level course of the Master of Science, Learning and Organizational Change program. The Master's program is grounded in concepts of cognitive science, psychology and education, and focuses on the applied areas of strategic change, performance, knowledge management, and learning.

Adjunct Faculty

Corporate Executive Board

Every year, the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) equips over 20,000 senior leaders from more than 10,000 organizations across 110 countries with the intelligence they need to respond quickly to evolving business conditions. In doing so, CEB helps them more effectively manage their talent, customers and operations to exceed business objectives.

As an Associate Director, I sold of CEB's HR-related best practices research, decision support tools, and executive education to a membership of the world's leading corporations and not-for-profit institutions.

Associate Director

Lante Corporation

Lante Corporation, a technology consulting company, customizes core extended enterprise applications to provide clients with new features to enable them to benefit from the trend toward information that is more interactive, real-time, collaborative, extended, and private.

Client Relationship Manager

Accenture

Accenture is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, providing consulting and outsourcing services through its strategy, digital, technology and operations capabilities.

Transition/Transformation Manager

CA Technologies

CA Technologies software and solutions have been powering innovation for over 35 years. Founded in 1976, CA Technologies has over 11,500 employees in 45 countries helping businesses thrive in a new world where every business is in the software business. CA Technologies has been recognized as a value leader by industry analysts and has been hailed as one of the “World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes, as well as one of the greenest companies in the United States by Newsweek®.

Sales and Marketing Associate (Pansophic Systems, Inc.)

Strengthen Your Change Leadership with a Coach You Can Trust |Forbes Contributor |Accenture Alum |Former NU Adjunct Faculty

Clients partner with me to address three key areas of need:

1. EXPANDING YOUR LEADERSHIP IMPACT
 	• Elevate Your Leadership Potential with Personalized Coaching
	• Foster Your Inclusivity as a Leader
	• Amplify Your Leadership Presence
	• Deepen Your Leadership Self-Awareness
	• Hone Your Coaching and Mentoring Skills

2. USING CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR STRATEGIC EXECUTION EXCELLENCE
	• Master the Six Levers of Change Leadership
	• Develop Resilience and Adaptability as a Leader of Change
	• Build High-Performance Teams

3.  COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT
	• Communicate Effectively and Efficiently
	• Resolve Conflicts with Courage and Confidence
	• Engage Your Stakeholders 
	
Delivery method(s) are customized based on my client's preferences and needs. This may involve a combination of one-on-one in-person or virtual coaching sessions, team workshops, assessments, and ongoing support to ensure growth and development.

About me
I coach executives for swift, successful, impactful change in themselves, teams, companies, or industries. If this describes you and you're ready to make a transformative impact and lead with more confidence, let's go.

With over two decades of experience, I've had the privilege of guiding leaders and teams from diverse industries, functions, and locations to not just navigate, but truly excel in today's ever-evolving business landscape. Helping clients develop the change leadership skills to tackle complex challenges like digital transformations, process enhancements, and customer engagement strategies is what I do.

My proven approach fuses structure and adaptability. I tailor my approach to the distinct needs and objectives of each leader or team, using proven assessments, tools, and strategies as needed. 

My work is grounded in practical experience, having served as a leader and member of multiple high-performing teams (and some low-performing teams as well) with organizations such as Accenture and PepsiCo. By delving into and applying research on leadership, learning and change as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University, I co-created and delivered a course on executing strategic change in the Masters level program. 

I'm honored to have earned a spot on the Forbes Coaches Council. Serving as a mentor, most recently as part of D CEO's Emerging Women Leadership Network, is also a privilege.

Sandy Schwan

Tintash

Tintash is an emerging tech-services firm founded by Stanford alumni. We assemble your offshore component with top-tier global talent and AI-driven workflows, and connect you to co-located tech and product leadership.

We’re organized into four specialized studios.

Cofounder

ALL3D

ALL3D is a B2B commerce enablement platform that lets sellers (retailers and manufacturers) create virtual products and immersive storefronts for ecommerce and social media. We help them digitize their products in 3D even before they exist, so they can sell ahead of the manufacturing cycle. Our customers are using us today for virtual 3D product images, lifestyles and customization of virtual products by end consumers for made-to-order products on websites. Our 3D experiences reduce return rates and increase conversion.

I'm responsible for building and growing the tech team behind All3D.ai

Co-Founder

School Of Management at FCC

I really enjoyed teaching entrepreneurship and strategy to undergrads, MBAs, and executive students. It was very rewarding to see students create cash flow positive startups, and impact companies with things they picked up in these courses.

Asst. Prof for Strategy and Entrepreneurship

GlobalGiving

Global Giving channels a significant share of US charity to global non-profits trying to help those at the bottom of the pyramid. All non-profits registered with them go through a thorough due diligence process. In my brief time with them I ran a few experiments to improve their new user retention and to create new ways for projects to promote their goals/credibility to seek funding.

Viral Marketing Intern

PTCL

Worked on Project V.I.E.W with Agha Ali Akram, and Dr. Jehangir Ikram. V.I.E.W stands for volunteer internet environment watch. We made devices that scanned ambient air for pollution and sent the reading to a central server. Thus 50 devices across an urban area could map out pollution levels over time. Project was amongst the finalist in the Stockholm Challenge that year.

Research Associate / Project Manager

I'm a co-founder at Tintash, an emerging-tech services firm led by Stanford alumni. 

What makes us the best game in town?
- Silicon Valley Pedigree leadership
- Clients: 3 Fortune 500 companies, 9 unicorns, and 150+ startups
- Teams made of the top 1% of offshore developers, designers, and product managers 

We operate as specialized studios focusing on 'Frac CTO Teams,' 'Digital Innovation,' 'Web 3.0 Integrations,' and ‘Hybridizing HC games’. 

I’m a fool for using the d.thinking and systems thinking lens to understand ambiguous problems. I tell my team that I like my punches in the face, and no they don’t disappoint! But it’s been fun and has helped build a culture of compassionate directness. And a place where we keep working daily towards evolving to our best version. 

In my free time, you'll find me on a treadmill, listening to Audible books and Huberman podcasts, or seated cross legged on the carpet reading old Sufi books and Rumi's poetry. Oh, and I'm always on the lookout for creative ways to keep my kids entertained without screens. Let's connect and discuss tech, leadership, or share some parenting tips!

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At the start of my career I found inspiration and purpose for life in the following story:

As a young boy Pir Mehr-Ali-Shah, a great sufi saint, loved to watch the train engine. When asked why, he said that the engine never differentiated between any of the carts and pulled all of them alike, it worked hard (especially when it started from rest), and it made sure that the entire train reached the destination. 

I wanted to be like this engine

Mannan Amin

Kathy Patton - thank you for a talk that was every bit as original and dynamic as your campaigns! We wrapped up with a fun ‘creative frame’ moment to capture the energy.

#gamedevcommunity.ai

Thank you for joining: Ian Oliver, Mark James, Usman Javaid, Harris Wahid, Amna Zubairi, Saima Khalid, Hanan Ather

Watch the full talk here: https://lnkd.in/d4rDHAvC

Stanford alumnus who sets up top quality offshore tech team components | Clients include 160 startups & 10 Unicorns | Cofounder @ Tintash

In healthcare, being wrong isn’t just a bad experience - it can impact lives.

Daniel Pupius shared with HealthAICollective.com how his team at Float Health used the Confusion Matrix to deploy AI responsibly - turning vague fears into clear, manageable risks.

Watch the full talk: https://lnkd.in/dF-mkmeY

Super Free Games turned to a partner who could launch new MVPs quickly and keep LiveOps running smoothly.

Key Outcomes:
* Cut backend costs by 40%
* Built a new games pipeline
* Boosted engagement across top titles

Read the full case study: https://lnkd.in/dDV7twe7

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