Hello! My name is Jacqueline Singh, MPP, PhD., Executive Advisor Evaluation and Program Design at Qualitative Advantage, LLC. I’m also Co-chair of the AEA Program Design TIG and Board Member at Large, Policy Committee Chair for Indiana Evaluation Association. Over the years, I’ve learned that program implementors and decision makers are incentivized to advance well …
I’m Tom Chapel. My “day job” is Chief Evaluation Officer at the CDC where I help our programs/ partners with evaluation and strategic planning. I took on both roles because large organizations do strategic planning and evaluation in different silos, even though both silos start with “who are we?” “what are we trying to accomplish?” …
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Hello, I am Fred Nickols, a consultant, writer, former executive, and currently Managing Partner of Distance Consulting LLC. I fancy myself a toolmaker to knowledge workers and part of that involves eliminating unnecessary complexity. Nowhere is that more needed than in strategic planning. The topic of strategic planning is an absolute quagmire of competing and …
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Hello! I’m Michelle Baron, an Independent Evaluation Strategist. In my work in higher education, I’ve encountered a mixture of evaluation champions and critics. Today I’d like to address the importance of strategic planning in building a culture of evaluation. Strategic planning is considered by many to be an organizational road map by outlining the organizational …
Hello, I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones. I’m an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University and a former Director of Research and Evaluation in Student Affairs. Assessment in higher education has largely been used for external accountability. Divisions and departments can use these external mandates for internal improvement and make assessment part of daily …
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Hello! I’m Silvana Bialosiewicz, a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University and Senior Research Associate at the Claremont Evaluation Center. Lately I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the relationship between evaluation and organizational strategic development, and how evaluators can support their clients by participating in strategic development efforts. I’d like to share some …
Hello, I am Leah Goldstein Moses, founder and CEO of the Improve Group and 2012 President of the Minnesota Evaluation Association. When I founded the Improve Group in 2000, I was learning to be a consultant at the same time I was refining my evaluation skills. My practice has grown from myself and a loose …
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Greetings aea365 community! I’m Ann Emery and I’ve been both an external evaluator and an internal evaluator. Today I’d like to share a few of the reasons why I absolutely love internal evaluation. Lessons Learned: Internal evaluation is a great career option for fans of utilization-focused evaluation. It gives me opportunities to: Meet regularly with Chief Operating Officers and Executive …
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Hello, my name is Kori Kanayama of Kaoru Kanayama Consulting. I’m going to share an approach to assessing a nonprofit organization’s profitability and mission impact as a springboard to organizational sustainability. I presented this assessment methodology at the Spring AZENet conference. This methodology can be done by nonprofit leaders, and by internal or external evaluators. …
For the past five decades Roger Kaufman (RK) has been a leader in the field of needs assessment – contributing 40 books and 200+ articles, and consulting with organizations around the world. He is a professor emeritus from Florida State University and a Distinguished Research Professor, Sonora (Mexico) Institute of Technology. For aea365, Dr. Kaufman …
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