Evergreen Solutions LLC

The consultants at Evergreen Solutions, LLC come from backgrounds in public administration, human resources, education, economics, and finance. Several hold professional certifications, including Certified Compensation Professional, SHRM-SCP, IPMA-SCP, and Project Management Professional. Before joining the firm, team members worked in state agencies, county and municipal government, school districts, and university systems, and that experience informs how Evergreen Solutions LLC approaches the operational realities its clients describe. The firm employs 25 staff and is based in Tallahassee, Florida.

Credentials at the leadership level follow the same pattern. Dr. Jeffrey Ling, who co-founded Evergreen Solutions LLC with Dr. Linda Recio in 2005, is a Certified Compensation Professional and holds an Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology. His career before the presidency included various roles in private industry, consulting, and higher education, and one of those roles was Executive Vice President of Evergreen Solutions. Across the last 30 years his work has involved more than 2,500 organizations, in every case around improving outcomes in human resource management, operations, and change management.

Dr. Recio brought a public education background to the firm she co-founded. She had led the education practice for another consulting firm, overseen reviews of Florida school districts for the Florida Department of Education, and directed planning and policy development for Leon County Schools. She served as the first President of Evergreen Solutions LLC and became President Emeritus in 2020.

Applied against public sector and mission-driven organizations, that combined expertise addresses the human resources and management questions that shape how those organizations serve the people who depend on them. Evergreen Solutions LLC is a management consulting firm, and its clients are cities, counties, school districts, institutions of higher education, and state agencies. It has operated for more than two decades, has partnered with public sector clients in 47 states, and has completed more than 1,800 engagements in that time. The consulting work is organized around four public sector markets, with a distinct practice area maintained for K-12 education, local government, state government, and higher education.

Compensation and classification studies sit at the center of the applied work. Evergreen Solutions conducts them to be market-aligned and equity-driven and to support recruitment, retention, and fiscal accountability, and each study takes in position analysis, salary benchmarking, review under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and stakeholder engagement. The pay structures the process produces are meant to be fair and to remain sustainable over time.

Performance management systems are another product of that expertise. The firm designs them to connect employee performance to organizational goals and to promote transparency, encourage continuous feedback, and support professional development, while keeping them straightforward enough to implement and maintain. Succession and workforce planning services apply the same analytical habits to a longer horizon, helping clients anticipate future staffing needs, identify leadership pipelines, and develop succession strategies through demographic analysis and strategic forecasting, with workforce continuity and readiness for organizational change as the objectives.

Where the question is structural, Evergreen Solutions LLC conducts organizational design studies, assessing and redesigning organizational structures to improve efficiency, clarify roles and responsibilities, and support strategic alignment, with emphasis on strengthening collaboration and promoting agility. Departmental operations reviews, closely related to that work, examine internal workflows to identify inefficiencies, process bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities, then translate those findings into actionable recommendations. Efficiency and staffing studies round out the management consulting services, using data-driven analysis to evaluate staffing levels, workload distribution, and resource utilization, identify optimization opportunities, and help clients reduce costs, increase productivity, and align staffing with operational demand.

The firm's technical work extends into software. Evergreen Solutions LLC develops and maintains a suite of web applications for human resources management, delivered through a platform the firm calls egsHR. The Job Assessment Tool, or JAT, is a survey-based instrument used to understand the key responsibilities and requirements of a role from the perspective of the employees who hold it, and the insights it produces inform job descriptions as well as compensation and classification recommendations.