About

Evolve Consulting

Your leadership. Your legacy.

A better future.

The journey requires courage, wisdom and compassion.

The destination is freedom.

Carolyn Godfrey

“For me, leadership is about the right use of power: purposeful, principled, and people-centered.”

Carolyn Godfrey

Carolyn Godfrey is the founder and CEO of Evolve Consulting, a San Francisco Bay Area–based leadership development firm with a bold vision: to help leaders and organizations grow in ways that serve both success and the greater good.

At Evolve, Carolyn leads two dynamic brands:

Leadership, Executive & Team Coaching — helping both men and women strengthen their personal leadership, elevate team performance, and drive meaningful results across their organizations.

Women Rise Up— a movement focused on advancing women in leadership and in society. Because now, more than ever, women’s empowerment isn’t optional, it’s essential. This work supports women in reclaiming their power and leading change that ripples far beyond the workplace.

Carolyn brings both personal and professional experience to the table, along with over two decades of helping people thrive at the intersection of people, process, and performance. Before launching Evolve, she held leadership roles in technical industries— including high-tech, enterprise software, and environmental engineering — where she learned firsthand what it takes to lead effectively in complex, fast-moving environments.

Today, she partners with leaders who are ready to grow with integrity, lead with purpose, and create an impact that stands the test of time.

Carolyn’s known for helping leaders get out of their own way and step fully into the kind of leadership that actually works for themselves, their teams, and the world they want to help shape.

She’s coached leaders through everything from breaking old habits and earning long-overdue promotions to building more ethical, purpose-driven cultures that spark real growth in both people and profits. Her clients have expanded their impact, made better decisions, led important change, advanced gender equity, and hit goals that once felt out of reach.

Since 2001, Evolve Consulting has worked across a wide range of industries including tech, engineering, finance, education, energy, environmental science, and nonprofit sectors focused on homelessness, housing, and women’s empowerment.

Carolyn holds a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coach Federation, a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, and a Master’s in Human Resources and Organization Development because she’s just as comfortable talking strategy in the boardroom as she is digging into human behavior and how people really grow.