Friday, July 6th, 2018
Summer is, by far, my most favorite season. It’s no wonder that the Solid Fire Consulting logo looks a little like a Summer sun ablaze or the volunteer sunflower in […]
Monday, March 28th, 2016
I am pleased to announce the birth of New Direction in Evaluation’s most recent volume “Evaluation and Facilitation“. The proud parents (aka Editors) are myself, Rita Fierro, and Dawn Hanson […]
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
I recently returned from the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference in Denver, where I co-facilitated a World Café conversation with my colleagues Rita Fierro and Dawn Hanson Smart. The theme of […]
Sunday, July 6th, 2014
Focus groups, interviews, and document review. They’re the trio of go-to qualitative methods used for gathering information for program evaluations and strategy planning. There are many other approaches, of course, […]
Monday, January 6th, 2014
I got the evaluation blues, I got the evaluation blues, On top of every other thing, I gotta show them what I do. Evaluation getting you down? Can’t figure […]
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
This summer I found my seat. Each morning, I woke up two hours before my children and had the velvety luxury of meditating for twenty minutes and then quietly reading […]