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

Al Lyman

Pursuit Athletic Performance

Health And Aging Coach

Al is the owner/co-founder of Pursuit Athletic Performance, LLC, and has been coaching endurance athletes from all walks of life and ability levels since 1999. He's also a retired member of the U.S. Coast Guard Band and presently a percussionist and librarian for the Venice Symphony, in Venice. 

Pursuit Athletic Performance is an internationally recognized gait analysis laboratory and coaching company for athletes from all sports. Coach Al opened "PAP" along with sports physician, Dr. Kurt Strecker, in 2010 in Old Saybrook, CT. The "brick and mortar" analysis lab moved to Chester, CT in 2015, and subsequently evolved into an online-only analysis system in 2016.  

"Team Pursuit" athletes of every age and ability level from around the globe continue to compete successfully at various race distances in swimming, running, and multisport, doing it all with a "movement quality first" approach to training. Among the many athletes Coach Al has helped reach their ultimate potential is 5-time Age Group Ironman World Champion and 40-44 age-group course record holder, Lisbeth Kenyon. 

Current Certifications: USA Triathlon, Fascial Stretch Therapist with Stretch To Win, Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialist, National Strength and Conditioning Association (CSCS), Dragon Door (HKC), Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research (Fitness Specialist), Functional Movement Screen provider (FMS), Barefoot Training Specialist (Evidenced Based Fitness Academy). He is also certified in clinical gait analysis by Medical Motion, a subsidiary of Sports Motion, Inc.

As an athlete, Coach Al is a multi-time marathon finisher with a personal best of 2:39:37 at the Boston Marathon, and a nine-time Ironman Triathlon finisher, including three finishes at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

Owner

The Venice Symphony

Librarian

The Venice Symphony 

Percussionist

Stretch To Win Center and Institute

Fascial Stretch Therapist Level 1

Triathlon Academy

Coach

The Age Optimizer | I coach aging and aspiring adults to take back control of their health so they can live stronger in their second half | Motivational Speaker | Author of 𝐴𝑔𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡

I’m 64. Since my mid-20s, I’ve wanted to live disease, doctor, and drug free, to give myself the best chance to die healthy at a ripe old age of around 120! 

It might sound like a pipedream, but I'm telling you, I’ve spent my entire life thinking about and researching what it would take to make it happen and then living every day to give myself the best chance. 

Now I’m helping others – the young and not-so-young - to also have their shot at a life free of chronic disease and dysfunction. 

Imagine being there for your great-grandkids and racing them around the yard!  Or imagine being able to travel the world and hike into your 100s, with no limits to what you want to do or where you want to go. We ALL have our own WHY.  For me, and I hope for you, the idea of being able to create those kinds of memories just fires me up.

If you’re thinking it might be cool to beat the “doctor dance” and take back your health and vitality, reach out. I’d love to help.

DM or go to this link to book a call:  https://calendly.com/al-lyman/15-minute-intro-call

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