I’m Stacie Toal and I started my own evaluation consulting firm in 2007. In the fifteen years prior to that, I had worked mostly in higher education in either paid roles or as a graduate student with a research assistantship. This summer, while preparing for a panel on Independent Consulting I participated in for Minnesota …
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I’m Gail Barrington, an independent consultant with more than 25 years of experience in program evaluation and applied research, and a published author. I’m a senior evaluation adviser to a number of organizations, I teach on-line, present workshops and webinars, and write as much as I can. Our clients hire us for our expertise and …
I’m Jean Eells and I’ve operated E Resources Group, my evaluation and consulting business, for 14 years. My clients are small non-profits and small local or state governmental departments and I run from 8 – 12 contracts at a time and up to 15 in a year mostly by myself, or with subcontractors. My tip …
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My name is Susan Wolfe, the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles and evaluation skills to strengthening organizations and communities. Being a “Jack of All Trades” is one way to combine the skills and core competencies of evaluation and community psychology to be successful as a …
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Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. We focus on educational evaluation for clients in Southern Illinois. Establishing a service or content niche is one way to be successful as a small independent evaluation firm. I define a niche as a clearly delineated specific opportunity for your …
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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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I’m Norma Martinez-Rubin, an independent evaluation consultant with a practice focused on evaluating disease prevention and health promotion projects. Small-sized independent evaluation consultancies can offer clients the accessibility and nimbleness absent in larger organizations mired in their own bureaucracies. Our multiple roles as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Informational Officer, and Chief Creative …
My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. I’ve written before about podcasts of interest to evaluators, but they were from peripheral fields. Today, I’m excited to see evaluators entering the fray. Hot Tip – Podcasts are for everyone: The word ‘podcast’ is associated …
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Hi, I’m Jennifer V. Miller. For my entire career, I’ve been in some sort of consultative role – either internally as a human resource generalist and training manager in corporate America, or for my consulting company SkillSource. When you are a consultant your primary role is to assess, then make recommendations for improvement. It’s my …
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Hello, we are Carolyn Cohen (Manager, Cohen Research & Evaluation, LLC) and Davis Patterson (Research Scientist, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine). We have partnered on several evaluations over the years, and are always excited to try out new facilitation strategies. We sometimes find ourselves challenged by access to, and time constraints of, potential …
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