Rob Evans
Rob excels at designing and leading collaborative workshops to help leaders align and mobilize their teams to successfully tackle complex challenges.
Rob is one of the world’s leading experts at designing and delivering the innovative DesignShop® Process and other collaborative workshops. He has facilitated hundreds of highly successful sessions with many of the world’s leading organizations, including 38 of the 2019 Fortune 100 companies. He has worked with not-for-profit organizations such as the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Auburn Seminary, the Centers for Disease Control, and other federal and state agencies.
As a partner at Ernst & Young (later Capgemini), he was the founder of the innovative Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) that pioneered the development of new forms of large-scale collaborative projects to dramatically accelerate strategy and organizational transformation projects. Rob founded and led a network of 28 purpose-built ASE centers for Capgemini, many of which are still in operation to this day.
Rob is the author of the Collaboration Code™ series, a practical guide to successfully designing and leading collaborative work with groups small, large, and huge. He and Carolyn Buck Luce conduct workshops around the world teaching the Collaboration Code approach.
Rob is an adjunct faculty member at Auburn Theological Seminary and holds graduate degrees from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard University. He has held faculty positions at Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern University, and the Lesley College Graduate School of Management. He is chair of the Stewardship Circle Council for The Pachamama Alliance.
The Whole Me
Throughout my working career, I have been committed to creating workplaces where we can all show up as full, creative human beings (not just human doings). Our global civilization faces extraordinary, civilization-threatening challenges, which are largely of our own creation. And that is actually the good news. Through careful, sustained collective effort, humanity can not only meet these threats successfully, but use our own ingenuity to create a more prosperous, peaceful, and just world.
Through Imaginal Labs, Carolyn, our colleagues, and I are committed to help courageous leaders find their magic, trust their magic, and energize their teams to achieve the seemingly impossible. AND to pass on what we have learned over decades to help the next generation of leaders and workshop designers/facilitators learn these best practices so they can guild on them and take them further. As a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a citizen, I am quite convinced that this work is worth everything I can bring to it.
