Firm Director and Principal Researcher
Goshen Consulting
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States
I joined AEA in 2011 and have remained very active with the Association for the past 12 years. Since 2009, I have grown Goshen Consulting, an evaluation focused consulting firm, from one (just me) to a team of 12 professionals serving 40+ clients and 50+ projects. I grew passionate about how to develop a practice, so I found assistance from my AEA IC TIG colleagues. I took what I learned about consulting and actively collaborated to give back to the IC TIGgers through leadership in the IC TIG and then later through workshops and web-based trainings. During the pandemic, I gathered together with AEA friends to create a weekly, free, collaborative interactive Zoom meeting, known as IC Topic Chats. Sensing a need for evaluation professionalization in the St. Louis community I gathered local evaluators together and founded the Evaluation Association of St. Louis. What I have learned is that my professional evaluation association connections and my professional success are tightly coupled.
Over the years, in the name of evaluation professionalization, I have conducted surveys of IC TIG members, created by-laws, wrote contracts, edited and wrote articles for the special NDE journal on independent consulting, led pre-conference workshops, met colleagues for lunch, consulted lawyers, conducted web-based trainings, questioned association costs at FAB meetings, attended thousands of hours of PD meetings, connected colleagues, formed non-profits, and made great friends along the way.
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8 - Consulting 101: An introductory workshop for evaluators who want to start consulting practices
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET
Thursday, October 12, 2023
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET