cool stuff we HAVE DONE

We are presenting our work on overcoming Data Fear at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference in Minneapolis! — In 2019, when everything still happened in person, we presented our work on overcoming Data Fear at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference in Minneapolis!

american evaluation association national conference

Fear and anxiety about data, both internally oriented, and externally oriented, deter some potentially key partners from participating in evaluation and other data-related efforts. Our work with nonprofit and government organizations has afforded us the opportunity to encounter, understand, and categorize these fears, and to identify actions that data leaders can take in order to alleviate the anxiety so that more community members, and other potential partners, are willing to actively participate in data related efforts.

In this workshop participants learned about the different types of anxiety we have identified, how our data-centric community amplifies the anxiety, and how they can address the anxiety using fairly simple and straightforward techniques.

**Leading a Culture of Innovation: Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater**

National public Performance conference

We were thrilled that the information my colleague Ron Schack and I presented was included in “Five takeaways from the 2019 Public Performance Conference”. Read about what we shared, and even watch a video clip of our presentation at https://www.suffolk.edu/news-features/news/2019/11/05/18/42/public-performance-conf

We’re presenting at the Connecticut Data Collaborative Conference: Counting What Matters This November in New Haven! — We presentied our work on data fear at the Connecticut Data Collaborative Conference: Counting What Matters - November 2019

connecticut data conference

We were excited to present our popular work on how individuals can overcome data fear, and assist colleagues and clients to overcome data fear. Fear and anxiety about data, both internally oriented, and externally oriented, deter some potentially key partners from participating in evaluation and other data-related efforts. Our work with nonprofit and government organizations has afforded us the opportunity to encounter, understand, and categorize these fears, and to identify actions that data leaders can take in order to alleviate the anxiety so that more community members, and other potential partners, are willing to actively participate in data related efforts.