Is Your Organization Stuck in a Loop?

You’ve tried the offsites, hired smart people, launched new initiatives. But, change still feels hard:

• Endless projects, minimal progress
• Leaders are stuck reacting, not leading
• Culture feels cautious or disengaged
• Innovation choked by outdated systems

These aren't episodic failures. It’s a sign that something deeper needs to evolve.

Welcome to Evolved Institute

We help organizations evolve from tired and tactical to alive, adaptive, and aligned.

Our approach blends organizational design, leadership development, and cultural evolution — grounded in bigger-picture yet pragmatic thinking, not buzzwords.

✅ Human-first
✅ Systems-aware
✅ Outcomes-focused

We’ll help you build an organization where clarity, connection, and capability thrive. 

Purpose –– Vision –– Target Audience –– What makes this series stand out? –– By attending you will be able to –– The underpinning theory –– Why are you waiting?

A path to lasting change

1-Decide 2-Discover 3-Develop 4-Evolve

We investigate what’s helping and what’s holding you back through research and inquiryWe co-create interventions to align with your strategy and suit your context.

We nurture your capability and support your leaders and teams to practice, learn, and lead the evolution from within. 

💡 Each step involves discovery and collaboration, not prescription.

What Becomes Possible When You Evolve

• Strategy becomes actionable
• Teams move faster and with purpose
• Leadership becomes courageous, not cautious
• Culture shifts from cautious compliance to confident contribution
• People feel energised, not exhausted

“The goal isn’t more change. It’s an adaptive way of working that delivers meaningful outcomes.”

Leaders We’ve Helped Evolve

“Top Mind in Agility and Driver for Positive Change. Apart from being one of the top minds in the world of agility, John is perhaps the best person to bring onboard from outside the company when you are really looking for valuable and impactful change in your organization. Like a razor sharp diagnostician, John swiftly identifies changes needed and provides practical tools and ways of maximizing that change and its impact, while being generous with his time and effort. While our company GPI Holding - Top Insurer in Georgia and a member of Vienna Insurance Group - continues to benefit from our cooperation, I personally have learnt a lot from John this year, and for this alone I will always be grateful.”
— Sandro Kiknadze, Strategic Development Director

“John really takes the time to make sure we understand what he teaches. I had a great teaching experience!”
—  Dr. Philipp Johannes Nolte

“Nader drove a huge portion of our transformation through consulting & coaching whilst being hands-on for delivery. without their significant contribution other teams may not have been successful.” —Colin Wilson, Transformation Lead

“Hopefully a revolution in the way we work and interact in our business.” — M. Kyte, Director

Who We Are

Meet the People Behind Evolved.

We’re leadership coaches, and evolution guides.

We’ve led change in complex organisations across many sectors.

John Coleman

John Coleman is an executive guide for timely humane effectiveness, adaptiveness, and ambidexterity. John is a co-founder of Orderly Disruption Limited and co-founder of Evolved Institute. He mentors and trains executives to balance the short and long term.

John hosts podcasts on organizational change and product and is deeply involved in professional communities.

He is not limited by his trainer badges from Scrum.org, Prokanban.org, LeSS, or Agile Kata. He is also a co-author of the Kanban Guide and Kanplexity and he is a Flight Levels Coach.

John is passionate about executive, ambidexterity, organizational adaptiveness, and balancing short-term execution with change agency for the long-term. In execution, he has lenses for the problem space, product discovery, delivery, and value realization. John specializes in (de)scaling, measurement, and executive content.

John helps scales-ups and fortune 500 organizations alike, across a variety of sectors including energy, finance, FMCG, insurance, pharma, and telecommunications (to name a few). John has been described as eclectic (broad and deep in many topics) yet pragmatic.

Nader Talai

Nader Talai is the founder of Value Glide and co-founder of Evolved Institute. His focus is straightforward: Nader partners with organizations like yours to foster adaptiveness, and unlock significant, measurable improvements in both performance and team well-being. Nader believes in practical solutions that create lasting change.

Real Impact in Action: The Commercial Banking Turnaround

A commercial banking client faced challenges due to a lack of clear purpose and frequent changes in direction from stakeholders. This led to many initiatives being started but few completed.

Nader focused on sustainable change by co-creating a visual management system to clarify priorities and enhance team focus. With others, Nader also implemented a robust problem-solving method to remove obstacles to progress.

As a result, the client achieved:

• A 36% increase in staff morale, thanks to clearer direction.
• Zero defects in their last ten releases, a significant improvement from twenty defects previously.
• A 52% reduction in time to value, allowing faster delivery of impactful results to customers.

Partner with Nader to Achieve Your Goals

This success story is more than just an achievement; it showcases the incredible results that can be attained when a clear direction of travel is paired with effective practices. If you’re looking to uplift and evolve your value streams, empower your teams, and deliver exceptional value, Nader is here to help you realize that potential.

Don’t Just Deliver.

Evolve For Short- To Long-term Delivery.

The future belongs to organizations that lead clearly and humanely. Let’s help yours become one of them.

Helping organisations evolve — with clarity, courage and care.

Are you ready to unlock similar transformative results for your organization? Nader and John invite you to explore the impactful services offered by Evolved Institute and start your journey toward excellence today.