Meet the Founder & Team
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Meet Dr. Pam Denton
Executive Advisor in Neurological Leadership, Cultural Systems, and Organizational Transformation
Dr. Pam Denton helps executive leaders understand and address the neurological and cultural dynamics that shape organizational performance under pressure. Her approach reveals how stress influences communication, decision-making, collaboration, resistance, and the flow of information across hierarchies—what she calls the Flexible Spiral. Rather than introducing another leadership model, she helps organizations strengthen the human capacity required to lead, adapt, and perform in increasingly complex, technology-driven environments.
Dr. Pam Denton is the Founder and CEO of Positive Evolution Consulting and a mechanic of cultural systems. Her work originated in well-being and leadership coaching across organizations such as IBM, Northwestern Mutual, MetLife, DFAS U.S. Government Programs, and local hospitals, and has since evolved into her specialty in the housing industry. With more than two decades of experience integrating neuroscience, human behavior, leadership, and organizational transformation, she works with organizations to identify the underlying stress patterns, communication breakdowns, rigid hierarchies, and cultural disconnects that limit performance, trust, and sustainable change.
Grounded in the principle that when pressure changes human behavior, it changes the organization, Dr. Pam equips leaders, teams, and employees at every level to recognize and shift the patterns that keep cultures reactive, fragmented, or resistant to change. As the creator of PAUSE™, ALIGN™ Training and Assessment, Cultural Perspectives, FlowFIT, and Cross Collaboration Training, she has developed practical systems that help organizations move from stress-driven reaction toward adaptive leadership, stronger alignment, and more effective collaboration. Her work builds capacity across the entire organization—from executives and senior teams to managers, emerging leaders, and frontline employees—strengthening the ability to communicate with clarity, navigate conflict, regulate pressure, and lead through disruption.
Today, Dr. Pam and the Positive Evolution Consulting team partner with housing and other high-impact, high-stress organizations, where leaders and employees must balance significant human responsibility with operational complexity. Her mission is to help organizations evolve their cultural systems so that, as technology expands organizational capability, people have the capacity to evolve with it. AI Capability + Human Capacity = Sustainable Performance.
Meet Our Team
Kelly Shaw
Kelly Shaw is an award-winning executive leader, transformational coach, and cultural strategist with decades of experience leading organizational growth, developing high-performing teams, and guiding transformational change.
Kelly serves as an Executive Lead within Positive Evolution Consulting’s four-year strategic partnership, helping guide the development, application, and evolution of our leadership and cultural transformation work. She has played an integral role in translating what we have learned through this long-term organizational partnership into practical strategies for strengthening leadership, collaboration, communication, and cultural connectivity.
Kelly is also a key leader in the development of Positive Evolution Consulting’s white paper and thought leadership, helping capture the insights, patterns, outcomes, and emerging strategies identified through our work in complex, high-pressure organizational environments.
Her perspective is grounded in significant executive experience.
Kelly successfully helped build a business unit to more than $100 million and later brought her leadership expertise into the nonprofit sector, where she helped transform an organization into a stronger, higher-performing team. At Positive Evolution Consulting, Kelly combines executive leadership, cultural intelligence, coaching, and strategic organizational insight to help leaders recognize barriers, strengthen human capacity, and build cultures that are more connected, collaborative, inclusive, and adaptable. Kelly brings to our team executive-level strategy and real-world transformation experience, helping us turn four years of organizational learning into scalable leadership strategies, cultural solutions, and thought leadership for the future of work.
Hillary Welles
Hillary Welles is the co-founder of FlowFIT and a passionate leader in fitness, wellness, and embodied movement. As a Nia Black Belt instructor, she brings a refined understanding of movement, energetic awareness, and whole-body intelligence to every class and community she leads.With extensive experience in fitness and wellness, Hillary is dedicated to creating experiences that connect physical strength with nervous system awareness, presence, and energetic connection. She believes movement is more than exercise—it is a powerful pathway to empowerment, vitality, self-awareness, and personal evolution.
Hillary also brings decades of experience in project management, real estate, and legal support. She spent nearly a decade with a land-use consulting firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she managed and facilitated residential and commercial development projects in collaboration with local and state governmental agencies. She later worked as a legal assistant specializing in real estate and probate law.
At the heart of Hillary’s work is a commitment to creating inclusive, supportive spaces where people of all backgrounds and abilities can explore their potential. Through her dynamic presence and grounded teaching style, she invites participants to move beyond performance-based fitness and discover greater alignment, confidence, vitality, and sustainable well-being. Hillary brings a unique blend of corporate project leadership, nervous system awareness, and embodied wellness expertise, helping our team build more resilient, connected, and adaptable workplace cultures.
Erin Pittinaro, LCSW
Erin Pittinaro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, transformational coach, speaker, and leadership consultant specializing in trauma-informed leadership, nervous system awareness, burnout, and human-centered organizational change.
Throughout her career, Erin has worked with individuals, teams, and leaders navigating high levels of stress, trauma, change, and responsibility. Her experience as both a clinician and organizational leader gives her a unique understanding of what happens when people are expected to perform, communicate, and lead while operating under sustained pressure.
At Positive Evolution Consulting, Erin brings this expertise into the workplace, helping organizations understand the human impact of stress and strengthen the capacity of leaders and teams to navigate pressure, change, conflict, and disconnection.
Her work integrates evidence-based psychology, trauma-informed practices, nervous system awareness, leadership development, and transformational coaching to help create healthier, more connected organizational cultures.
Erin believes sustainable cultural transformation begins with people having the capacity to regulate themselves, connect with others, communicate effectively, and lead with greater awareness.
As part of the Positive Evolution Consulting team, Erin supports our mission to move organizations beyond stress-driven, rigid patterns and toward more connected, collaborative, and adaptable cultures where people can thrive alongside organizational and technological change.
Lisa Wyland, PT
Lisa Wyland, PT is a physical therapist, nervous system specialist, FlowFIT neuroregulation leader, and brain-based leadership practitioner who brings a deep understanding of the evolving body and brain to Positive Evolution Consulting.
With a foundation in physical therapy and human movement, Lisa understands how the body adapts to stress, pressure, environment, and change. Her work explores the powerful connection between the brain, nervous system, physical body, and human behavior—and how strengthening this connection can increase resilience, awareness, adaptability, and performance.
As a FlowFIT neuroregulation leader, Lisa applies neurological fitness principles to help people develop greater capacity to regulate stress, move through tension, and remain present and responsive under pressure.
At Positive Evolution Consulting, Lisa extends these principles beyond the individual to the organization. She helps leaders and teams understand that just as the body must continually adapt, reorganize, and evolve, healthy cultures must do the same.
Lisa brings a unique perspective to brain-based leadership and cultural transformation, helping organizations recognize stress-driven patterns, strengthen human capacity, and create more flexible, connected, and adaptive cultures prepared to evolve in a rapidly changing world. Lisa brings to our team expertise in physical therapy, nervous system regulation, brain-based leadership, and the evolving body, helping us translate human physiology into practical strategies for stronger leadership and more resilient, connected, and adaptive workplace cultures.
Susanna Andrews
Susanna Andrews is an neuroenergy medicine specialist, belief systems expert, hypnotherapist, FlowFIT neuroregulation leader, and strategic partner with Positive Evolution Consulting. For more than four years, she has worked alongside the team to help develop and apply brain- and nervous-system-based approaches that strengthen human capacity, leadership awareness, and cultural transformation.
Susanna brings deep expertise in understanding how belief systems, subconscious patterns, stress responses, and internal programming influence behavior, communication, decision-making, and performance. Her work helps individuals and leaders identify patterns that may be limiting their ability to adapt, connect, and move effectively through change.
As a leader in the ALIGN™ Assessment process, Susanna helps translate individual patterns and perspectives into meaningful insights that support leadership development and organizational strategy. Her expertise in hypnotherapy, visualization, and subconscious reprogramming adds an important dimension to Positive Evolution Consulting’s neurological approach to cultural change.
As a FlowFIT neuroregulation leader, Susanna also helps individuals strengthen the capacity to regulate stress, increase awareness, and access greater presence and adaptability under pressure.
Susanna brings to our team a unique understanding of human capacity, belief systems, visualization, and neuroregulation, helping leaders move beyond unconscious barriers and build the internal capacity required for more connected, flexible, and evolving workplace cultures.