Social Impact & Innovation

I carefully design engaging workshops and discussions that support listening, conversation, and eventual clarity. Examples include:

• Helping coalitions work together to create a shared vision

• Building strong relationships and consensus decision-making with a steering committee of community members with lived experience

We work together to capture the your work through the lens of many people who are impacted, then use the new insights to inform, adapt, and build a narrative of your impact. For example:

• Drafting an evaluation strategy and coaching the team to lead data gathering and sense-making

• Facilitating a workshop series to teach Developmental Evaluation methods to a team, using relatable examples and experiential opportunities

I take a strengths-based, intentional, and collaborative approach to enabling organizations to learn and hear from partners and people with lived experiences. This includes:

• Designing and creating the materials for a team to gather insights and perspectives in ways that are engaging and reveal compelling narratives.

• Conducting research with a broad range of people with lived experience, using visuals, storytelling, and dialogue to inform a program or service gap or idea.

I co-facilitate design processes with partners and the people they serve to develop creative & evidence-based solutions. I also help test the ideas being generated to understand how expectations meet reality. This includes:

• Leading an iterative process following human-centred design methods to gathering insights, facilitating generative discussions, and refining ideas.

• Testing a small-scale pilot to better understand the potential outcomes for people who interact with it, and operational impacts for making a change.