Revolve: the most accidental purpose-driven company you’ll ever meet.
Revolve is a communication-centered coaching and training agency founded by Jessika Lynch. We specialize in thought leadership and amplifying the work of visionaries*, from entrepreneurs to business leaders to great idea holders - including those who are still on a journey to discover this path in themselves. Whether you are a company, team or individual, our work aims to get you into perfect alignment for the impact you want to make in the world.
*Hot secret: no one sees the world the way you do, and absolutely everyone has a head full of ideas worth sharing. The ideas part is always there - the only thing missing is the way to frame them. That’s why communication is at the heart of our work.
Offering individual coaching, trainings and courses, Revolve consists of - you guessed it - a revolving cast of collaborators, copy experts, event curators and support to offer every client a bespoke and perfectly aligned package.
We thrive for two main reasons:
1. We love our clients.
Speakers. Communicators. Business people with (or looking for) purpose. Thought Leaders. Experts. Authors. Change-Makers. People making an impact in their lives and careers... You.
We spend our days with interesting people doing really cool things. They come to us to be more inspiring; we go home feeling inspired.
It’s the absolute best.
2. A passion for the electricity that happens when communication and leadership combine.
We exist for one reason:
A communication revolution is underway.
Communication has been one of the most overlooked concepts in business today. It’s way more than a skill-set - it’s the difference between frustrated innovators, and ones who move mountains.
You see, Revolve didn’t start out working in leadership! But we noticed something so important and undeniable...
… that while helping speakers to talk from what it is that makes them spin - yes, perhaps revolve - at their core - they begin to do incredible things. They play so much bigger. They create change and inspire others. They receive opportunities they couldn’t have imagined. In short, they succeed.
In over 10 years’ with TED, Jessika has seen up close the incredible ripple effect of a great talk, and this is the guiding principle behind our work.
We can see a new form of leadership afoot, that is communication-centric and, combined with vision and strategy, create seismic change.
Yup, just like that. Well almost.
Hello!
I'm Jessika Lynch
I founded Revolve...but the truth is, it kind of found me.
This wasn’t supposed to be my career. And yet somehow, looking back, it all seems inevitable…
The short version (including treasure hunt - can you find ‘em all?)
And whenever I talk about new leadership and the communication revolution - all heads nod. That’s how I know I’m on the right track.
The transformation in my story is what I want for you - purposeful resonance, where everything falls into place with every story you tell, no matter who you are, no matter who your audience is.
+ A little background: in the mid-2000’s, I was doing pretty well on the B2B tech communications ladder at a company I loved.
I was good at writing, preparing presentations for executives, leading events and delivering good messaging. I was getting promoted.
+ But at a certain point, I realised it just wasn’t feeling like enough.
I can’t quite explain why, or put my finger on what triggered it - I was hungry for more meaning.
That was around 2009, and TED and TEDx were starting to take the world by storm. Do you remember? That was the year Ken Robinson gave his talk on schools killing creativity - and Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the single story. I know you will have your own favourites. So, so good.
+ At about the same time, TED began to expand to other countries.
A few Google search strings later, and I’m emailing the new license holder of TEDxAmsterdam*, wondering if there was anything “small” way I could help out. Just here and there. I was in full time employment, after all.
*I’ve lived in the Netherlands since 1996, born and raised in New York)
+ Within a year I effectively had two full-time jobs.
TED was awakening peoples’ curiosity on subjects they’d previously ignored. People who hadn’t thought much about climate change, or education, or introversion, were being inspired, sharing talks and asking their entire online networks to do the same.
It was a pivotal time in our culture... when swathes of society began to question whom the status quo was truly serving.
+ This was something completely new and different to anything I had witnessed before,
at least at scale, enabled by social media and YouTube:
Experts in fields like sociology or math, with a compelling idea and a powerful way of communicating were at last taking their place on stage and oh wow, the TED audience couldn’t get enough.‘Nerds’, were going viral!
For maybe the first time, experts were becoming ‘influencers’: inspiring change through the power of their ideas and their communication. They attracted huge followings by being really smart, and proving it by presenting us with sophisticated concepts in a way we could all make sense of.
+ This was thought leadership, and I was in love
[anecdote]
+ I quit my job to become a freelance communications consultant.
The plan was simple: continue my work in B2B (fin) tech, but be independent and with less travel. I had founded and licenced my own TEDx event (TEDxAmsterdamED), and that would keep running too.
Honestly, I’d grown so disillusioned by the traditional communications model - top-down, regurgitated from a jardon-riddled company deck - that I was starting to question whether I was in the right career. At least by going freelance I could maintain an income but be less invested in that model.
+ But when my passion and my work aligned, the most beautiful path opened up.
And, my experience since then has shown me that I am far from unique: the exact same thing happens when the people I work with get into alignment between passion and work, too.
Passion for thought-leadership, plus my expertise and breadth of experience in communications meant that, pretty soon, leaders at every new company I worked with began to whisper, “hey, could we grab a coffee? I’d love to pick your brain on how to be more inspiring when I… [insert any important thing this leader had to do]”.
Those chats over coffee changed everything.
+ Plot twist: it wasn’t only me who was disillusioned.
Business leaders were right there too. They were out of alignment with the messages they were delivering, regurgitating stuff that had been ‘talking-pointed’ to death: they felt like robots. But they wanted to make things better.
Words can barely do justice to the excitement and elation I felt on learning this. You’ll have to picture the heavens opening, celestial choirs and golden trumpets playing triumphant music. I was inspired.
+ With a mission to change the world by empowering thought leaders with high impact communications, Revolve Communications was born.
At the same moment, I fell back in love with my career. It was 2014. By then I had coached hundreds of speakers, through TEDx and in business, in bringing their ideas to life, and marrying their passion with their expertise.
My stars were perfectly aligned, as long as I kept focusing on my stars (my clients) finding perfect alignment.
As for the Revolve Method? It just kind of found us.
And to get up to date, in 2021, the Revolve Method is transforming thought leadership with 1-to-1 and small group coaching, bespoke programmes, spreading the good word through podcast and speaker appearances, digital training courses - and plans for more. The communication revolution is underway.
+ Without fail, every time I tell my story people want to know more.
I know why they love it, too, (everyone, from a Fortune 500 CEO to parents at the school gate): it’s because it’s a story of things falling into a place, and a new field of possibility opening up. It just makes sense.
