About Us
If intuition is the voice of the soul, then creativity is that voice expressed.
Evangeline and Jo Anne each bring more than three decades of professional communications experience to Intuitive Leaps Creative. We became friends 20+ years ago through the Speaking Circles International facilitator-training program, and our relationship deepened in improvisational personal storytelling circles. In 2003, we began our professional partnership with a comprehensive website re-design for a national nonprofit organization. That’s when we discovered shared sensibilities, complementary talents and skills, and a passion for meaningful collaboration, powerful presence and authentic self-expression.
We value the relationships we have built with our clients and work associates. Our extended support team includes a broad network of creative and technical resources, including videography and editing, database expertise, WordPress support and more.
Evangeline Welch
“My vision is to inspire others to nurture their creative spirits and to deepen their awareness of the power of intuition in their personal lives and work.”
Evangeline hasn’t received a “paycheck” or a “paid” vacation for more than 30 years. But she has happily worked from home as a self-employed communications consultant since April 1, 1988 – the day she launched her own business providing creative services for corporations, nonprofits and small businesses. (She figured at the time if her business wasn’t successful, she could tell everyone it was an April Fool’s joke.)
Evangeline has presented numerous workshops on creativity, expressive arts and intuitive body wisdom. She is a Certified Relational Presence Facilitator and Speaking Circles® Facilitator. In 1997, Evangeline founded a transformational art process that evokes deep play called Paint Dancing™ (her own intuitive leap) and certified as a facilitator for the Inner Journey Institute in 2002. She also has traveled throughout North America on an “intuitive pilgrimage” interviewing people making a difference in the world for a collection of inspiring stories on intuition and the creative process.
From 2005 through 2020, Evangeline served as the marketing director and webmaster for The Narrative Enneagram, an educational nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives and creating a more compassionate world.
She started her career as a professional communicator as a newspaper reporter. Before starting her own business, she also served as the editor and art director of San Francisco Business magazine, and as manager of communications for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.
Her current focus includes Enneagram consulting, group facilitation, content editing, branding and website development.
Evangeline works online and in Shreveport, LA and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jo Anne Smith
“I value intuition, collaboration, the power of story, and the creative potential of silence.”
Jo Anne founded Public Presence Consulting more than 30 years ago to help individuals and organizations expand their public presence online, in person and in print. A few years later, she partnered with Evangeline to enjoy the pleasure and practical benefits of working together.
She brings extensive expertise and experience designing, developing and maintaining websites. After years consulting for nonprofits and small businesses, these days she specializes in creating a comfortable design and development process for sole proprietors, including authors, artists, therapists, coaches, and more. She is a Squarespace Circle Member, a special designation for experienced designers in the Squarespace platform.
Jo Anne freelanced for McGraw-Hill Publishing for many years, and now provides content editing for web copy, memoir and other nonfiction writing, and collateral materials.
Combining her experience as a Certified Speaking Circles® Facilitator with her background as a grief and suicide prevention counselor and bereavement group leader, Jo Anne now leads online Aging, Dying & Death workshops.
She has facilitated popular public speaking and personal storytelling workshops, and produced and directed storytelling showcases, seminars and other events. She spent five years as associate producer on award-winning educational videos and multimedia. Her projects included co-producing a documentary on the theme of women reclaiming their voices.
Her professional experience also includes serving as the executive director of Speaking Circles International and teacher of Transcendental Meditation. She was ordained as a minister by the Center for Soulful Living and leads mentoring groups for CSL peers.
Jo Anne works in the San Francisco Bay Area and the ethers of the Internet.