organizational change

Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken and Gabrielle Watson on Is Developmental Evaluation Right for Large Scale Organizational Change Processes?

Hi, we’re Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken (Director of the Syracuse University Transnational NGO Initiative) and Gabrielle Watson (independent evaluator). We engaged a group of practitioners at the 2015 AEA conference to talk about organizational change in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), and explore a hunch that Developmental Evaluation could help organizations manage change. Several large INGOs are …

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Rebecca Stewart and Samantha Hagel on Committing to Creating an Inclusive and Accountable Evaluation Organization

2 Comments / Uncategorized / August 19, 2015 August 13, 2015

We are Rebecca Stewart, Chief Practice Officer, and Samantha Hagel, Chief Administrative Officer, both with The Improve Group, a firm based in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a mission to help mission-driven organizations make the most of information, navigate complexity, and ensure their investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact. This year, we …

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Bill Fear on Evaluating Organizational Change and Change Management

1 Comment / Uncategorized / February 17, 2015 February 10, 2015

Hi, this is Bill Fear, independent evaluator and freelancer. Over the years my interest in evaluation has spanned a number of disciplines and sectors. The common theme that continually emerges is one of change management and more latterly, I have narrowed this down to organizational change. This helps to focus the wide range of ideas, …

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Best of aea365 week: Summer Jackson on Insights Into Foundation Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 28, 2015 January 25, 2015

My name is Summer N. Jackson, Project Director at Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy a regional, nonprofit membership organization that focuses on advancing the interests of African Americans in philanthropy and address the impact of racial disparity within philanthropic institutions and African American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had the opportunity to …

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YFE Week: Shepherd Zeldin and Jane Powers on Involving Young People in Organizational Change

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / March 8, 2012 February 24, 2012

Greetings! I’m Shep Zeldin and I am a professor in the Civil Society and Community Research Graduate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and I’m Jane Powers from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. We are engaged in a long term project to promote and support youth-adult partnerships (Y-AP) in organizational and …

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SIOP Week: Stephen Axelrad on I-O Psychology and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 3, 2011 February 25, 2011

My name is Stephen Axelrad. I am a Human Capital consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. For almost a decade, in both my doctoral training and professional life, I have had one foot in the evaluation world and one foot in the industrial-organizational psychology (I-O) world. Both disciplines use behavioral and social science research to solve …

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SIOP Week: Dale S. Rose on Organization Development: A Program Worth Evaluating (Logically)

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / March 2, 2011 February 23, 2011

Hello. My name is Dale S. Rose. I am the President of 3D Group, a firm that has done program evaluation, 360 degree feedback and employee surveys since 1994. One of the thorns in the side of Organization Development has always been the nagging lack of a cohesive theory about how to successfully create change. …

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SIOP Week: E. Jane Davidson on SIOP and AEA’s best-kept secrets!

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Evaluation Use / February 28, 2011 February 19, 2011

My name is Jane Davidson and I run an evaluation consulting business called Real Evaluation Ltd. I also run a fun blog with Patricia Rogers at GenuineEvaluation.com. My doctoral training was in organizational psychology (with some industrial psyc at Master’s level), which is the career I was pursuing when I stumbled across evaluation. I was …

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