Kylie is the 2020 recipient of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada. She has spent the past thirty years working in the not-for-profit sector as a consultant, trainer, program manager, board member, and volunteer.
There are many valuable nuggets from this video. We discuss the following during the interview:
– Reasons why Kylie loves evaluation.
– Why evaluation is relevant for health and human services students who are not necessarily interested in research or evaluation.
– Why she wrote Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned. She highlights some of the most important lessons from the book.
– Kylie talks about how everyone makes mistakes and the key is learning from them.
– She reviews specific strategies for engaging project stakeholders in an evaluation.
– Kylie provides her favorite resources regarding program design.
– How mindfulness factors into her work and how it can inform the work of evaluators.
– Books she recommends.
You can connect with Kylie through https://communitysolutions.ca or @EvaluationMaven at Twitter.
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