Hello, fellow evaluators! We are Linda Kawentel, Nardeen Shafik, and Rachael Kenney from the VA QUERI Center for Evaluation and Implementation Resources (CEIR). Among our other duties, we work together to design and facilitate evaluation trainings to build evaluation capacity within the VA healthcare system. When working on an evaluation team, it’s important to understand

Hi – we are Olivia Jones and Sally Honeycutt, Senior Lead and Senior Director on the Evaluation Team at the American Heart Association. We’re excited to share a helpful resource we’ve used to support our team culture and growth. About five years ago, our team went through a major organizational shift. We moved under new

Hi, I am Joelle Greene, a Senior Director at ORS Impact. As evaluators, we often encourage clients to embrace participation, inclusion, and shared decision-making. I’ve found it equally important to practice those values within my own project teams. Earlier in my career, I held a fairly narrow idea of what it meant to be a

Hello! I’m Maureen Bailey, MSc, MA, the Director of Research & Evaluation at Action for Healthy Kids. If you had asked me early in my management career who was responsible for the mentoring relationship, I would have had a simple answer: the manager. Years later, I’ve learned it’s not that straightforward. Some of the best

I’m JoAnna Hillman, the Evaluation Managers and Supervisors (EMS) TIG Chair and owner of Hillman Associates, LLC. I’ve dabbled in caregiving my entire career. Starting in high school as a Certified Nurse’s Assistant and later in part-time elder care, I’ve seen up close and personal what burnout looks like for caregivers of their loved ones.