Evolution Space
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Bring Your Vision of Systems Change to Life
We support social innovators and innovation ecosystems to manifest their full potential through education & development, business model design, and living systems thinking.
Our Current Offerings
The Abundant Social Innovator Cohort
A Living Systems Approach to Fundraising for Social Innovation
Partner with your place, unlock genuine abundance, and shift towards long-term prosperity through our 6-month immersive experience.
Evolution Guidance
Personalized Coaching for Social Innovators and Their Teams
A supportive guidance container to become a thriving social innovator with joy, ease, and effectiveness.
The Evolution Space
A free community for social innovators and ecosystem builders to connect, grow, and create thriving ecosystems with each other.
Get Insights To Advance Your Innovation Practice
We weave ancient wisdom, innovation practice, and living systems thinking to help you generate new insights and advance your work.
Recent Articles
What If Innovation Meant Becoming More Alive?
Social Innovation: A New Path for Entrepreneurs, Changemakers, and Weavers in a Time of Evolution.
Turning Conflict into New Potential with the Law of Three
How to leverage your obstacles to turn compromise into inspired co-creation
Patterns for accelerating systemic evolution
Shifting the way we co-create, fund, and govern initiatives to benefit living, shared prosperity.
What We Do
Living Systems Design Strategy
Reconnect with the heart of your work, your place on earth, and bring to life the unique potential you can work towards, together, in this moment.

For Ecosystem Builders

You might be struggling with… Lack of engagement Turning conversations into action Securing sustainable funding Missing out on collective potential within your network We help you… Reconnect with the potential in this unique moment Create energizing and magnetic spaces Turn conversations into concepts that drive action Find aligned fundraising to fuel your evolution So you can… Create systems-shifting products, services, and initiatives Secure resources to fuel your future Grow essential capacities of the people in your network If you're interested in applying living systems design to re-activate your impact network or coalition, schedule a 30 minute introductory call to explore the possibilities: Explore Collaboration

For Philanthropic funders and Impact Investors

Create a Systemic Value-Adding Funding Process Do you see the potential to add more value in the organizations you fund beyond the capital you deploy? Do you see the current infrastructure of existing systems getting in the way of your ventures succeeding in truly shifting the paradigm? Let's design a process to explore the potential of the system(s) you care about and evolve your funding process to bring additional value to your ventures and system. Gather key stakeholders, ventures, and affected communities to create a shared vision of what a thriving ecosystem looks like in your context. Gain clarity around the core obstacles that prevent this collective vision from coming to life Amplify your unique role in this system that makes you essential for it's success Generate creative ideas to address these obstacles with multi-stakeholder design teams Collaboratively iterate, invest, and evolve the most promising ideas to expand potential and remove blockages for your current and future investments. If you're interested in applying living systems design to upgrade your funding ecosystem, schedule a 30 minute introductory call to see if we're a good fit: Explore Collaboration

For Systems Shifting Non-Profits & Businesses

Design a Product, Service, or Program that Shifts the Paradigm Have you gotten some traction with your core activities but struggle to bring it all together? Do you feel the opportunity to expand the value you bring but struggle with limited capacity? Let's align your team and stakeholders to get a holistic perspective on your potential to create an initiative that brings value to all involved while planting seeds for systems change to emerge. Revitalize by connecting with your living purpose that breathes life into your work. Explore the potential for fulfilling that purpose on new levels given the great things you've accomplished so far. Dive into the things that have been holding you back from getting to the next level Evolve your product, service, or program by combining upgraded awareness and strategic clarity with the value within your current operations. If you're interested in applying living systems design to take your organization to the next level, schedule a 30 minute introductory call to see if we're a good fit: Explore Collaboration

Living Design Strategy works for diverse stakeholder groups that
  • Are stuck in the tension and gridlock that comes from a focus on problems
  • Sense that they could be working on greater things together but aren't sure where to start
  • Want to connect more deeply with the spirit of their place on earth and work with the unique potential available to them
Our work
Silvi
Goal: Go from Reforestation Pilot → Community-Driven Reforestation Platform
Results:
  • Funded 5,000+ farmers in Rural Kenya to plant trees
  • $50,000 in grants → $100,000+/year in earned revenue in beta stage
  • Launched website with 45 leads from form
  • Expanded from single reforestation pilot to platform model with 20+ pilot projects

www.silvi.earth

Home

Reforestation for everyone. Silvi is accelerating global reforestation through building a platform for community-driven reforestation

Next Rung Technology
Goal: Transform a sustainable technology engineering brand and online presence, creating team cohesion, and strategic clarity.
Results:
  • 0-8,000 impressions on Google search over 2 years.
  • Grew the team from 6-14 members over 2 years.

Next Rung Technology

Next Rung Technology

Engineering consultants helping sustainable technology companies effectively scale their business and engineering processes

Just Learn
Goal: Improve ecological learning platform go-to-market with website design + messaging
Results:
  • $15,000+ in new revenue from partnerships with schools after website launch.
  • Empowered thousands of kids to understand living systems through PlanetBox

www.justlearn.io

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PlanetBox is a cutting edge, self-sustaining ecosystem-ina-box with engaging and immersive, science resources for students, educators,researchers and hobbyists.

Think Regeneration
Goal: Find high-leverage partnerships for a regenerative agriculture hub and capacity builder for farmers.
Results:
  • 10+ powerful partnerships discovered
  • Nourished the minds, hearts, and operations of dozens of pioneering regenerative farmers through their programs

Think Regeneration

Think Regeneration

Accelerating change in the food supply through our regenerative agriculture programs, expertise, and partnerships.

B-CIITY
Goal: Birth a data sovereignty co-op within a coalition of Black-led non-profits working on trauma and youth.
Results (ongoing project):
  • 40+ community members engaged in the design process
  • Shifting the narrative around community development to center the voices of disinvested community members

B-CIITY

B-CIITY

We exist to incubate, catalyze and maximize the efforts and impact of Black-led, youth serving organizations in order to build thriving communities.

Receive Insights to use living systems thinking to act with more joy, creativity, and abundance.
Collaborator Experiences
As a Founder, I often struggle to bridge the gap between big-picture dreams and tactical reality. Enter Interform. Interform has helped break down my long-term vision into achievable 3-4 month sprints, grounding my team at Silvi in action. What's extra special is that Adam doesn't lose sight of the north star, yet is gifted at being able to synthesize priorities for everyone involved.
He's not just a strategy mastermind. Adam brings a rare quality of humanity and connection to the table. This shines through in his exceptional facilitation skills, guiding insightful deep dives and workshops, whether one-on-one or with the entire team.
Without a doubt, Adam is an essential asset for those doing systems change work. I can't recommend him highly enough.
Djimo, founder of Silvi
As someone who's working on a systems change vision that involves both for-profit and non-profit entities, Interform has been an invaluable ally. Working with Interform helped me synthesize my big vision into distinct programs, which then supported me in fundraising for much larger grants. Adam worked with me to clarify the big vision and the core program offerings, and Sandra helped me find larger grants than I had previously thought possible. I feel very supported and excited for whats to come!
Jeremy Chevalier, Founder of Homegrown and Permascaping
Adam has known the exact questions to ask that have supported me in aligning with the way I truly want to work in the world… I have worked with other business coaches, and Adam is the first one who has supported me in a way that has allowed me to become the holistic practitioner I have been envisioning yet unable to achieve on my own. I always feel energized and focused for my next step when we get off a call. I am immensely grateful for our paths crossing and for the opportunity to work with him.
Working with Interform to find grants for our programs delivered what we needed… it gave us the capabilities to bring on somebody and give them a helpful roadmap to start working with immediately
Ryan Slaughbaugh, Founder of Think Regeneration
The Process of Transformation
Every social innovator and ecosystem is unique, so the specifics of our collaboration are different each time. However, we keep core elements of our process
Connect with collective potential
We start with the roots. Through collaborative workshops and interviews we clarify, energize, and expand your stakeholders perspective of the core mission of your organization. Through these interactions, we surface the unique potential of your organization, in this place, at this moment.
Sense into the future
With rootedness, we expand into the future. We sense into the patterns at work behind our workshops/interviews to expand on your potential for transforming systems. We weave a transformative vision of the future that your organization and the stakeholders who you partner with are uniquely positioned to create together.
Strategize with vision
Rooted in the present with an expansive future in mind, we get tactical. We create a holistic path forward to leveling up your fundraising, communications, and program/product strategy.
Co-create the future
With a transformative strategy, we execute. We create abundant budgets to fundraise for the resources you need to actualize your vision in a space of joy, prosperity, and enoughness. To support these higher levels of fundraising, we create a refined communications system that tells a compelling story of your organizations previous work and future potential.
Instead of working in silos, we practice radical collaboration to not only produce more useful deliverables but also to facilitate a culture of openness and creativity.
Implement and evolve
With an expanded vision, fresh brand, abundant budget, and communication system, we're all ready to take your organization to the next level. We act as your support team as you utilize the new capabilities, connections, and deliverables we created together to actualize your vision for systems transformation.
Insights around living systems thinking to upgrade your strategy, fundraising, and communications
Our Aim: Improve the Way We Improve Our World
"You can't solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it"
  • Albert Einstein
We've noticed that many systems change initiatives start with a burning passion, a clear vision, and a lot of energy.
But many fizzle out, fall short of their purpose, or have to compromise between financial gain and social transformation.
We're here to connect the dots so your radical vision of systems change can grow beyond what you envision, in step with your community.
To elevate our work and results, we must elevate how we think.
To this end, we have crafted principles, inspired by the field of Regenerative/Living Systems Thinking pioneered by Carol Sanford that help us stay aligned with our aspirations as we work with you:
Trust collective intelligence
All of your stakeholders hold valuable insight that guides you towards fulfilling your essential purpose. We seek collaboration with the full spectrum of stakeholders frequently to generate an atmosphere of trust, long-term buy-in, and creative outputs that surpasses what everyone expected.
As visionaries who see the unseen, we acknowledge the value in testing our concepts and ideas against the experience of real people and situations. We balance our ability to reach into the unknown for creativity and inspiration with grounding into reality to ensure the things we create have a real impact on real people.
Test ideas against reality with action
Prioritize growth of inner capabilities
We don't just want to grow numbers, or even qualitative outcomes. We seek to grow the inherent capability of all that we work with. Through dialogue, thoughtful questions, and empowering engagements, we want to grow you from the inside out so you and your community continue to thrive long after our project ends.
Everything starts with connecting to the moment here and now. We start our work by uncovering the real potential, limitations, and secret sauce within the teams, communities, and bioregions that we work with. By rooting into the nature, dynamics, and potential of the systems we seek to change, we're able to expand our work to make waves, not ripples.
Expand from rootedness
Lean into connection
The wisdom of life guides us. And in 4.6 billion years on earth, life has shown us one thing - surviving and thriving requires deep connection. We strive to reconnect through our work, bringing people and place closer together through our workshops, collaborative approach, and thoughtful interview design.
Our Collaborative Ecosystem
We're an adaptive, distributed team of founders with diverse experience across many facets of building and growing systems change organizations
Adam French
Founding Visionary
Worked with dozens of social entrepreneurs as an advisor, strategist, designer, and most recently, regenerative practitioner.
His toolkit converges influences from design thinking, business model innovation, regenerative design, yoga, qi-gong, and is always expanding!
Sandra
Fundraising Flow Artist
A former non-profit founder on a mission to improve how non-profits raise money for abundance and flow, Sandra has worked with organizations around the U.S. to raise millions of dollars on a local, state, and federal level.
Pooja
Investment Intelligence Agent
Building the solidarity economy as a lawyer, entrepreneur, investor, and trusted advisor. After selling a family business, she leverages decades of experience understanding how businesses work to support their success.
Sam Chavez
Marketing Maven
Sam Chavez is a queer, Latine, New Mexican American activist who’s passionate about a livable planet, belonging, and equitable societies. She founded The Roots of Change Agency to harness my storytelling and 12+ years of marketing experience to cultivate connections that lead to lasting social change. She does this through strategic coaching, workshops, consulting, podcasting, and writing. 
Vance
Business Design Wizard
Vance guides social entrepreneurs through ambiguity as a facilitator, coach, and mentor by combining the polished steel of business with the colorful paper of design thinking.
Stephen
Content and Connection Curator
Stephen is a motivated social enterprise founder that uses his skills in project management and content creation to support our process of forging new connections and maintaining a powerhouse content calendar
How To Connect With Us
If you're a social innovator that wants to reach your full potential, we invite you to browse our current offerings.
If you support social innovators and want to partner with us to accelerate evolution and collaboration in your ecosystem, book a time to explore!