Hi there! I am Mary Nash of Nash Insights, based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. As the country celebrates Independence Day, we at the Independent Consulting TIG are reflecting upon breakthrough moments in our careers. Mine occurred in January while I was in Costa Rica on a Live the Life of Your Dreams Yoga Retreat. After several …
IC TIG Week: Finding New Evaluator Digs by Mary Nash Read More »
Welcome to Independent Consulting TIG Week on AEA365! I’m Myia Welsh, the 2018 IC TIG Chair and owner of Welsh & Company Evaluation Consulting. Our AEA365 week will focus on the theme: breakthrough moments in independent consulting. Those moments, from tiny to enormous, that had a profound impact on our IC TIG members. My breakthrough …
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Hi, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant (www.SaraVaca.com), helping Sheila curate this blog and eventual Saturday contributor. After 5 years as a freelance evaluator, I am starting to get more contracts coming from previous jobs or mouth-to-ear, but still, I see myself going through the regular selection process: the evaluation commissioners publish the Terms of Reference …
Hi, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant (www.SaraVaca.com), AEA365 Outreach Coordinator and Creative Advisor (happy to be back!), and it’s been 4 years and a half since I started my evaluation practice. In that time, I have been involved (to different extent) in about five different partnerships. Belonging or working with a group of consultants (in …
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Hello good people! My name is Robert Perez and I am a research assistant at Hamai Consulting and a Data Analyst at Youth Policy Institute. My first foray into independent consulting happened was when I was offered the opportunity to work at a small consulting company. Admittedly, I was nervous in the beginning but I …
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Koolamalsi Njoos (greetings colleagues). I’m Dr. Nicole Bowman-Farrell, the Founder and President of Bowman Performance Consulting (BPC), a consulting firm located in Wisconsin. As a traditional Mohican and Lunaape – Munsee (AKA Delaware) Indigenous person, the concept of writing an origin story about BPC is steeped in traditional cultures. If you know who you are …
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Hi! I’m Myia Welsh of Welsh & Company Evaluation Consulting. I’m also the Chair-Elect of the Independent Consulting TIG. I’m going to share an independent consulting origin story that isn’t often talked about, but I suspect is rather common: dire necessity. Years ago I was laid off. Yep. Lost my job. It was awful. I …
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Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. and the out-going chair for the Independent Consulting TIG. My company focuses on educational evaluation and data support for clients in Southern Illinois. I started my company in 2011 based on the unmet needs for educational evaluation in my local …
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Hi, everyone, this is Dana Powell Russell, Ed.D., sharing my path to independent evaluation consulting. Funny thing is, I set a vision for myself at age 15 of ultimately becoming an independent consultant—I’m not sure how that seed was planted, but here is how it has unfolded… I started my K-12 education career leading museum …
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Independence Day is approaching, which means the Independent Consulting TIG is taking over aea365 and we’ve decided to tell our origin stories. Up first, me. My name is Laura Keene, owner of Keene Insights and this year’s Independent Consulting TIG Chair. It’s not a very exciting origin story, but it speaks to a key point …
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