09/19/2025

Michael-lynn Evans

Founder & Principal, AP Consulting

Michael-lynn Evans understands that business does not operate in a vacuum and neither does leadership. With over 23 years of experience advising clients across sectors, Evans has made a career out of helping organizations act not only in their own interest but in ways that engage and shape the broader civic and political environment.

As the founder of AP Consulting, Evans leads with the belief that policy outcomes are not inevitable; they are the product of deliberate strategy, sustained engagement, and institutional fluency. She partners with Fortune 500 companies, trade associations, small businesses, nonprofits, and public officials to build the capacity needed to navigate the increasingly complex intersections of lawmaking, regulation, and influence.

Her expertise extends beyond lobbying. Evans educates her clients on the political systems they engage in helping them become more informed, intentional participants in the democratic process. Her strategies emphasize long-term relationship-building, institutional awareness, and coalition development, underscoring that effective advocacy is about more than persuasion. It's about understanding systems and working within them to create enduring change.

Her approach is pragmatic but principled: anticipate outcomes, act with foresight, and build bridges across ideological divides. She maintains strong, bipartisan relationships with legislators, agencies, and community leaders. Relationships that allow her to advance nuanced, high-impact policy strategies that align institutional goals with public good.

For Evans, political literacy is not a luxury for business leaders, it is a necessity. And in today’s increasingly politicized operating environment, AP Consulting exists to help leaders engage thoughtfully, ethically, and effectively.