What It’s Like to Work With Evoke
Choosing the right consulting partner matters. Your energy and resources are precious, and so are ours. We invite you to reflect on whether we feel aligned for meaningful, long-term collaboration.
Our team is committed to living out our values in our client relationships.
We weave equity into our process design and deliverables. While you don’t need to be at any particular stage of your equity journey, being aligned in valuing equity is essential.
What this looks like:
Co-designing inclusive processes that bring many voices and perspectives forward.
Exploring power dynamics, racial dynamics, identity, and systems together.
Grounding discussions and deliverables in systems-level analysis (policies, narratives, structures).
Best match clients: Are open, humble, and willing to stretch. Ready to let equity influence organizational decisions, structures, and programmatic work.
Social Justice & Racial Equity
Our work supports lasting individual and organizational transformation. Transformation begins as soon as we start working together and continues long after our project ends.
What this looks like:
Modeling new ways of working and relating that you may begin to incorporate right away.
Offering ideas and tools to support more connected, effective collaboration.
Exploring organizational motivations, structures, and culture.
Best match clients: Have a willingness to go deep and desire transformation within themselves and their organizations.
Impact & Transformation
We bring expertise in transformational facilitation, planning, and coaching. Our clients focus on diverse aspects of social change, and we center your knowledge in the work.
What this looks like:
Creating shared meaning and strategy development, grounded in our facilitation tools and your subject matter expertise.
Ongoing opportunities for your input. If you’re looking for consultants who will deliver analysis or recommendations with little input or effort from your team, we aren’t a good match.
Tapping into Evoke’s talented, values-aligned network of collaborators when specialized knowledge is needed.
Our best match clients: Value our expertise and facilitative approach. Want their hands in the clay—and know they are better leaders when they have the right thought partners.
Co-creation & Collaboration
We engage with authenticity and vulnerability. We genuinely want to get to know you, so we can support you through a process that may be a stretch for your capacity (e.g., time, mental energy, resources), and establish a foundation as long-term collaborators.
What this looks like:
Building trust and connection through intentional meeting check-ins.
Caring for your wellbeing (e.g., we’ll ask how you’re feeling and even encourage you to cancel when sick).
Developing genuine relationships that include humor, family, and life beyond work (we’ll want to see pictures of your kids’ (or dogs!) Halloween costumes).
Creating space for 1:1 support when things come up.
Best match clients: Value relational ways of working.
Community of Care
We believe every organization and individual has the capacity to grow into a more effective, purposeful, anti-racist version of themselves.
What this looks like:
Communicating openly about any challenges emerging in our project or relationship.
Naming dynamics we are witnessing and inviting you into curious exploration with us.
Leaning into transformative conflict through direct, consensual conversations and circle practices.
Holding up a mirror to ensure you are leading in alignment with your values and are more ready to take purposeful action towards your goals.
Our best match clients: Bring a passion to learn, unlearn, explore, and grow.
Growth Mindset & Agency
Our work is designed to be resourcing and energizing. We tap into your imagination and creativity that can be hard to access amidst the overwhelm and urgency of the social sector. We help open up your capacity for vital strategic work.
What this looks like:
Facilitating opportunities to engage your imagination and connect with your dreams for what’s possible.
Organizing our collaboration to take place in ways that work for you (e.g., in live meetings with minimal homework or co-working in documents, depending on what works for you).
Our best match clients: Feel energized by visioning and want to bridge from today’s reality to their future vision.
Abundance
Transformative Strategic Planning for organizations advancing social justice and equity.
How our clients experience us