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Evolution University is changing paradigms for what we learn and how we lead to better our lives today and create the future we want. Our courses, coaching, and consulting services take you on inspiring journeys where you will discover more about yourself and your interconnectedness with the world. By integrating our unique frameworks and practices with developing core skills and competencies, you will be empowered to co-create and cultivate healthy organizations where people and the planet thrive while creating and delivering products and services.

Our offerings are designed to be engaging, thought provoking, impact focused, and action oriented. We dive into the what, why, and importantly, how you can make positive change. Trainings are universal to all sectors and sizes and can be customized to meet specific needs.
Get started right away by enrolling in an online course. Earn a Certificate of Completion that demonstrates competencies in the top skills for today and the future. 
On-demand courses can be enhanced with facilitated learning journeys that meet your group's specific needs. Additionally, we offer unique instructor-led courses and workshops that inspire greater connection to one another and our planet.
Be the change you want to see in the world is not a cliche, but exactly how change happens. Together, we will do a leadership assessment and work on building the inner skills and mindsets that translate into desirable outcomes. Coaching is grounded in course or workshop materials.
Rather than traditional consulting methods of analysis and prescriptions, we provide the frameworks, practices, content, and facilitation that empower people in your organization to gain the skillsets and mindsets to solve problems imaginatively and effectively.

Inquire about facilitated courses, individual coaching, and consulting services customized to meet your specific needs. 

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The EVOLVE Sustainability Framework™ and Learning Journeys

Develop the top mindsets and skillsets for today and the future

Mindsets

  • Global
  • Compassion
  • Abundance
  • Growth
  • Changemaker

Skillsets

  • Systems thinking
  • Circular thinking
  • Futures thinking
  • Design thinking
  • Strategic thinking
We believe this one framework can change the world. On the surface it's simple, memorable. Dive in to discover it has no limits in how far you can take it to spark imagination and lead meaningful change. Ultimately it transforms the way organization think, act, and create by embedding sustainability into its DNA and as the driver of strategic success.

Grounded in an online course and guided by consulting professors, the program can be accomplished in six weeks accelerated or six months while applying on the job. You will discover ways to make meaningful change that leads to measurable impact. By gaining holistic insights that align to global goals and standards, you will find ways to create value across stakeholders, including nature and society. Project oriented, you will develop critical thinking and analytical skills, while engaging with the material in experiential ways. You will gain the confidence to take on sustainability initiatives while earning a certificate of completion comparable to a masters level university course to showcase your credentials.

Who is this course for?

The EVOLVE Sustainability Learning Journeys are interdisciplinary, cross-sector, and universal to all people seeking a life of purpose and positive impact.
  • Sustainability Leaders
  • Business Professionals 
  • Green Teams
  • Environmental Leaders
  • Nonprofits Leaders
  • Community Activists
  • Educators
  • Spiritual Leaders

What to Expect

  • Live online sessions
  • Instructor coaching
  • Powerful online course
  • Unique strategy tools
  • Practical exercises
  • Peer discussions
  • Join from anywhere
  • Earn a certificate

formats

Comprehensive Journeys, Sustainability Sprints, and Highlights
EVOLVE Sustainability Journeys are offered in 6-week, and 6-month cohorts.
EVOLVE Sustainability
Sprints
are offered in 1-week and 1-weekend sessions.
EVOLVE Sustainability Highlights can be shared in 1-2 hour sessions.

Workshops

Our unique workshops inspire greater connection to one another and our planet by blending ancient wisdom, nature's genius, scientific research, business strategy, and human compassion. Bring your teams together to build skills that improve performance, inspire creative thinking, and cultivate connection. Workshops can be virtual, in-person, and hybrid and make excellent additions to retreats, quarterly meetings, and conferences. Whether you are looking to build skills internally or engage partners and collaborators, these workshops will make a lasting impact.

Most workshops range from two to four hours. Some can be accelerated to one hour, when necessary.
Prices depend on group size, duration, and location.

The Five Essential Mindsets for Sustainability Leaders

We are in a time of transformational change that requires us to begin with inner value shifts and outer ways of being to create the world we want. Evolution University has identified 5 Essential Mindsets™ representing the core attitudes, beliefs, and skills that help us imagine and take action to #EvolveOurWorld: global, compassion, abundance, growth and changemaker. Combined they provide the inner foundation for sustainability leaders and global citizens as demonstrated through behaviors and decision making and manifested through actions in our workplaces and communities. Learn more about the Five Essential Mindsets and ways you can integrate these into your personal and professional lives to make positive impact.

Green Teams: Leading Eco and Social Action

Learn how to energize and engage your workplaces and communities to be green! This workshop shows you how to ignite a green spark and lead eco and social initiatives that make impact. Tap into your passions and creativity to transform your workplaces and communities. Move through the four steps of the EVOLVE Sustainability Framework to go from what is to what can be by embracing circular and systems thinking and aligning to your organization's values and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Set targets to get to zero waste and zero emissions. Start small, dream big, and make meaningful impact.

Indigenous Wisdom and the EVOLVE Sustainability Journey

Blending indigenous and ancient wisdom with the EVOLVE Sustainability Framework, this workshop takes you on a journey to hear the voice of Earth and all of its inhabitants. Evolution University's logo holds the symbol of the four directions, north, east, south, and west that also represent the elements and messages of air, earth, fire, water, the four seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall, and the four steps of the EVOLVE Sustainability Framework. Blending these symbols with lessons from nature, this workshop takes you on an interactive and magical journey of renewing our connection with nature and coexisting in harmony in our personal and professional lives. 

Peacemakers and Changemakers

This workshop was developed for the United Nations International Day of Peace. Compassion is a mindset and a skillset proven to be essential for creating a more peaceful and sustainable world. This workshop shares insights on how to cultivate, activate, and integrate compassion for people, the planet, and peace. Participants will learn a universal language of peace, engage in storytelling exercises to connect with experiences of people and nature, and discover ways to make meaningful change by finding solutions and taking action for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Participants will be invited to take the MORE Compassion Pledge that inspires daily actions to co-create a better world by being peacemakers and changemakers.

The Power of Heart-Centered Leadership

Your heart is the greatest power center in your body, yet what often happens in the workplace is we get caught up in tasks and to-do lists, then find ourselves drained and disconnected. By reconnecting to our hearts, we can find ways to strengthen resiliency, reignite joy, and access an abundance of energy to fuel our passions. We'll explore ways of tapping into multiple forms of empathy and practice openly listening-- proven top leadership skills.

Compassion research shows that activating the heart center shapes brain responses from scarcity to abundance, leading to better decision making as well as employee and customer experiences. We'll engage in sensory exercises and practice compassion hacks when triggered to quickly transform our relationships and maintain a proactive leadership presence.  

Purpose to Prosperity

Are you craving more meaning in your work? Do you have a dream you would like to act on but are not sure how to get started? Would you like to gain clarity on what your purpose is and discover ways to express this through your current job, a new company, or social cause?

Within each of us are clues to our unique life calling. In this workshop we will turn to the four steps of the EVOLVE Sustainability Framework and Evolution University's logo from the perspective of:

1) soil/purpose,
2) seed/nurture,
3) bloom/cultivate, and
4) harvest/prosper. 

You will be guided through an assessment of your current conditions, or the the quality of the soil in your life, evaluate its regenerative properties, and continue to move through the process tapping into personal values and sustainability themes found in nature, the human spirit, and the UN SDGs. 

The SDGs as a City Planning Tool

Discover how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals can provide a blueprint for designing comprehensive city planning initiatives and strategic plans. The goals cover all aspects across social, economic, and environmental issues while cultivating peaceful and inclusive societies.

This workshop is ideal for city planners and sustainability managers to discover ways to connect with the global goals and bring them to the local level in robust, meaningful, and innovative and ways. Learn how to tap into the successes of other cities and customize them for local results. 

The workshop includes exercises on adopting the EVOLVE Sustainability Framework and the cognitive skillsets of systems, circular, futures, design, and strategic thinking.

Climate Action Planning for Today and the Future

Climate change is a real and undeniable threat to our entire civilization and is the formidable challenge of our lifetime. The effects are already visible and will be catastrophic unless we act now. Facing these issues presents both challenges and opportunities for cities, businesses, and community organizations to make the necessary changes to protect the planet while modernizing infrastructure and industry, creating new jobs, and promoting greater prosperity across communities.

This workshop ignites a climate action planning process by providing a clear purpose and centering actions around SDG 13: Climate Action and the complimentary SDGs that together create a comprehensive plan across social, economic, and environmental sectors.

The EVOLVE Sustainability Framework guides participants through the stages of planning from evaluation, and the often skipped, yet essential phases of imagination and innovation, to making it real through implementation. 

Climate Reality Project's "Truth in 10"

The climate crisis affects all of us. But together we can solve it. That is why Al Gore created the “Truth in 10” slideshow, a 10-minute presentation to share the truth of what’s happening to our planet and the solutions in our hands.
 
Presented by NYC 2024 trained Climate Reality Leader Joni Roberts, the presentation breaks down the science of global warming and how rising greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels lead to more and more extreme weather events and impacts from rising seas to fast-spreading disease.
 
Just as important, “Truth in 10” explains how we can solve this crisis and create a better future for all with a just transition to clean energy, using the tools and technology here today. All in simple and easy-to-understand terms any audience can follow.
 
This presentation is complimentary and is ideal for schools, colleagues, and more talking about climate change and how we can solve it together.

Coaching and Consulting

Joni Roberts, IMBA

As the Founder and Chief Evolution Officer of Evolution University, it's my joy to support people in their leadership and sustainability journeys. My career as an international entrepreneur, leadership and strategy professor, and creator of all things Evolution University, have given me a breadth of knowledge to work with while helping others be successful. 

Cultivating an engaged and compassionate heart helps me to hold the space for a range of emotions experienced throughout life's challenges. As demonstrated through my work, I have a devotion to lifelong learning and natural curiosity. I am also an adventure swimmer, hiker, and nature lover.

Head plus heart plus the determination of an athlete is what I bring to support you and your organization's learning and sustainability journeys.

Leadership Coaching

Be the change you want to see in the world is not a cliche, but exactly how change happens. Together, we will do a leadership assessment and work on building the inner skills and mindsets that translate into desirable outcomes. Coaching is grounded in courses and workshop materials, offering a multitude of pathways for professional development and success.

Consulting

Rather than traditional consulting methods of analysis and prescriptions, we provide the frameworks, practices, content, and facilitation that empower people in your organization to gain the mindsets and skillsets to solve problems imaginatively and effectively. From building better relationships and teams to undergoing organizational transformation for sustainability, we can help you achieve the results you are seeking.
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