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Reality TV Lessons Week: What Survivor Can Teach Us About Evaluation by Jen van Stelle

7 Comments / Uncategorized / March 26, 2021

Hi, I’m Jen van Stelle, Co-Founder & Principal of Actionable Insights, LLC. As program evaluators, my business partner, Melanie Espino, and I help nonprofits and government agencies discover and act on data-driven insights. I was a fan of Survivor, arguably the first successful reality show in the U.S., from about 2003 to 2011. For those …

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Evaluation Teams Week: What’s your (leadership) style? by Jennifer Obinna

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 29, 2017

Hello! I am Jennifer Obinna, Ph.D., M.S.S.W., and I lead evaluation teams at The Improve Group, a research and evaluation consulting firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. Whether I am leading an internal team that reports to me or a collaborative team with clients and community partners, I look for ways to share power so that …

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DUP Week: Accessible Evaluation Techniques with June Gothberg

6 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change, Arts, Culture, and Museums, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Evaluation Use / September 2, 2017

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, Chair of the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG and co-author of the Universal Design for Evaluation Checklist (4th ed.).   Historically, our TIG has been a ‘working’ TIG, working collaboratively with AEA and the field to build capacity for accessible and inclusive evaluation.  Several terms tend to …

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SEA Professional Development Week: Leading by Building Influence by Sheena Horton

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 15, 2017

Hi all! My name is Sheena Horton, President-Elect and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). As I have been learning more about the traits of great leaders and how leaders mobilize others, I have found one element that is frequently mentioned: a leader’s influence. Influence may seem like an obvious determinant of a …

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Jennifer Miller on Building Trusting Customer-Consultant Relationships

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / August 12, 2012

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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Kelly Hannum on Leadership Development for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 23, 2012

I’m Kelly Hannum. I’ve been evaluating leadership development programs for almost two decades. I am convinced that effective leaders and effective evaluators have similar mindsets and employ similar skills.  I encourage leaders to think like evaluators, and via this post I’m encouraging evaluators to think and develop themselves as leaders. At the Center for Creative …

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OPEG Affiliate Week: Rob Fischer on an Effective Board

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 2, 2011

I am Rob Fischer and I have just completed six years as board president of the Ohio affiliate of AEA, the Ohio Program Evaluators’ Group (OPEG). Founded in 1980, OPEG has a longstanding commitment to evaluation professionals in the state. Our annual paid membership fluctuates between 120-150. In my total of eight years on the …

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Cathy Bear on Using Standards-Based Self Assessment to Build Effective School Leaders

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / November 6, 2010

Hello! My name is Cathy Bear, and I am an assistant professor in the School of Education at Maryville University in St. Louis. I serve as one of four full-time faculty members in the educational leadership programs at both the master and doctoral levels. Rad Resource: The Master of Arts and EdD in Educational Leadership …

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Systems Week: Aimee Sickels on Collaborative Leadership in Systems Work

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / October 5, 2010

My name is Aimee Sickels and I am the Principal Evaluator and owner of Custom Evaluation Services, an independent evaluation consulting business. I am also currently working on a Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of South Carolina. I am studying about systems approaches to solving some of our most complex social problems. What I’ve learned …

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Susan Kistler on Learning From Failure

6 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 28, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler,  and I am AEA’s Executive Director. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. I have been reading and thinking about learning from failure. For those of us who are data-lovers, who find security in information, it can be a challenge to overcome the tendency to want to collect all possible …

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