Our Team
Founder, Head Leadership & Performance Strategist
Sarah Derrenbacher
"There is a different way of achieving high performance — a way that doesn't leave us feeling depleted and fatigued from the pressure to perform and instead can heighten our ability to go and grow beyond our limitations, bringing deeper meaning to our lives and skillful mastery of our craft."
Inspired by the belief that the highest performance doesn't come from a place of relentless struggle and strain, Sarah Derrenbacher founded Evolveability to guide leaders toward a more fulfilling way of achieving success within their team, organization, and society.
E3 Assessment Specialist
Monica Cook, PhD
"I love tackling challenging problems and finding solutions that help individuals and teams reach their potential. I'm excited to be a part of a team with strong values and a commitment to helping clients achieve success."
Monica is a highly skilled professional with a technical background in image science analysis and systems engineering, and over 10 years of experience working with both large programs and small, focused teams in academic and government settings.
Implementation Partner, Athletics
Samantha Lewis
"I believe the greatest growth happens when someone truly sees you — your strengths, your challenges, and your potential. That's what drives me to show up fully for every athlete and team I work with."
Sam brings a rare blend of scientific curiosity, athletic experience, and a passion for helping others reach their potential to her role as an Implementation Partner.
Support Staff
Courtney Cooley
"Working with Evolveability has taught me that we do not have to grind ourselves to the bone; that we can accomplish and achieve great things with compassion, empathy, and care."
Courtney has a well-rounded background in process documentation and design, project management, operations, and finance. Over the course of her 20-year career, she has successfully led the development and launch of multiple knowledge-based initiatives within global organizations in the employee engagement, employee recognition, and HR software space. Her strategic and analytical approach and her passion for quality ensure efficiency and high-level client delivery.
Founder, Head Leadership & Performance Strategist
Sarah Derrenbacher
"There is a different way of achieving high performance — a way that doesn't leave us feeling depleted and fatigued from the pressure to perform and instead can heighten our ability to go and grow beyond our limitations, bringing deeper meaning to our lives and skillful mastery of our craft."
Inspired by the belief that the highest performance doesn't come from a place of relentless struggle and strain, Sarah Derrenbacher founded Evolveability to guide leaders toward a more fulfilling way of achieving success within their team, organization, and society.
As an established Founder, trusted Leadership & Performance Strategist, and certified behavioral analyst, she is on a mission to re-structure the path to performance.
Since 2015, Evolveability has guided individuals and teams within sports and business to realize their potential and perform well beyond their expectations.
Over the past ten years, Sarah has contributed to a number of conference championships, NCAA tournament runs, and record-breaking seasons in sports, while helping leadership teams of Fortune 500 companies expand and growing small to mid-sized businesses into industry leaders.
From guiding teams out of slumps to accelerating breakthrough moments, Sarah's proprietary E3 System™ successfully transforms teams through individual performance coaching and dynamic group sessions.
The first half of her 18+ year career focused on leading values-based culture change, where she witnessed a need for deeper connection between performance and the well-being of individuals and teams. And Sarah has committed the second half of her career to transformation as she turns high-pressure environments into high-context cultures, fearful groups into motivated teams, and confidence-seeking individuals into self-assured leaders.
With a bachelor's in Communications and Psychology, Sarah is an excellent communicator with a strong understanding of people. And as a 15-year student of meditation and Inquiry, her approach is enlivening and transcendent.
As an advisor for The Heartwork Institute, an organization that informed her own inner-work journey, a board member of the Rochester City Soccer League, and partner of like-minded community organizations such as Rising Phoenix Sports Program and Foodlink, Sarah finds fulfillment in helping others. By embracing awareness and humanness on our own journeys, she believes we can find unconditional joy within ourselves, our teams, and our world.
E3 Assessment Specialist
Monica Cook, PhD
"I love tackling challenging problems and finding solutions that help individuals and teams reach their potential. I'm excited to be a part of a team with strong values and a commitment to helping clients achieve success."
Monica is a highly skilled professional with a technical background in image science analysis and systems engineering, and over 10 years of experience working with both large programs and small, focused teams in academic and government settings.
Monica's work experience spans a range of applications, from supporting remote sensing projects at government institutions to developing technical solutions using modeling and statistical data analysis across a variety of imaging science applications. In these environments, she has honed her technical writing and communication skills to effectively translate complex information for diverse audiences.
In addition to her technical career, Monica has a passion for coaching, which she discovered during the pursuit of her PhD. She has significant experience coaching soccer at both the collegiate and youth levels, where she excelled in tactical analysis and adapting coaching strategies to meet the unique needs of each team. Over the past six years as an assistant coach at the collegiate level, she has focused on individual player development and team management, helping student-athletes reach their full potential both on and off the field.
Monica is driven by the power of teamwork and the belief that a group can achieve success far beyond what individuals can accomplish alone. She is excited to bring her technical expertise and collaborative spirit to the team at Evolveability, where she looks forward to contributing to its continued growth and success.
Implementation Partner, Athletics
Samantha Lewis
"I believe the greatest growth happens when someone truly sees you — your strengths, your challenges, and your potential. That's what drives me to show up fully for every athlete and team I work with."
Sam brings a rare blend of scientific curiosity, athletic experience, and a passion for helping others reach their potential to her role as an Implementation Partner.
A recent graduate of SUNY Geneseo with a Bachelor’s degree in biology and a minor in Sociomedical Sciences, she developed strong analytical and communication skills through field research, peer mentorship, and academic study of the social dimensions of health and performance. Her ability to assess complex environments and translate findings into meaningful action reflects both her scientific training and her instinct for people.
What sets Sam apart is her career as a Division III student-athlete. As a member of the basketball team and team captain for field hockey, she earned three Empire 8 championships alongside All-American, All-Conference, All-Region, and MVP honors. She knows firsthand what it takes to build trust, excel under pressure, and unlock the best in those around her. Her years coaching, refereeing, and working one-on-one with athletes of all ages and abilities have deepened her understanding of how individuals grow and teams evolve.
Sam is based in the Rochester area and is energized by Evolveability's mission to restructure the path to performance, one team at a time.
Why We Exist
Built from 20+ years at the intersection of leadership, behavior, and performance.
"Most interventions address the symptom. We address the environment producing it."
There is a fulfillment crisis in high performance — and it’s hiding in plain sight.
Executives hitting their numbers and feeling empty. Athletes winning and wondering why it doesn’t feel like enough. Teams outperforming their benchmarks while their best people quietly plan their exit. The pursuit of performance has become untethered from the pursuit of meaning, and the cost is showing up everywhere.
This is what happens when conditions are misaligned. And it’s what we built Evolveability to change.
Most organizations keep pulling on the same levers — training, hiring, restructuring — and wondering why the gap doesn’t close. That’s because performance gaps aren’t always talent problems. They’re conditions problems. And so is the fulfillment gap.
Change the conditions. Change both.
Real mastery — the kind that compounds over a career, not just a quarter — requires operating in conditions where growth and fulfillment aren’t competing priorities. Where individuals aren’t just performing at a high level, but becoming someone who can sustain it. Where winning feels like an expression of who you are, not a transaction you make at the expense of everything else.
That’s the work. And it’s what we build.
A repeatable, diagnostic process for coaches, executives, and teams who are ready to close both gaps for good.
