From Insight to Influence

Strengthen the skills needed to ensure program evaluation insights actively shape organizational decisions

As evaluators, we work hard to ensure our findings have impact beyond the report. This workshop is for evaluators ready to move from information providers to strategic knowledge partners. Together, we will strengthen the communication, facilitation, and situational awareness skills needed to ensure evaluation insights actively shape organizational decisions.

Through interactive simulations, strategic communication exercises, and hands-on planning tools, participants will explore how to position themselves as trusted contributors to leadership conversations, ensuring evaluation becomes a catalyst for strategic clarity and systems-level change. You will leave with concrete strategies and an actionable plan you can implement immediately.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Translate Evidence for Leadership: Frame findings in a way that align with executive priorities, strategic objectives, and decision timelines.
• Engage with Authority: Use facilitation and communication techniques to contribute confidently and effectively in high-level discussions.
• Design Decision-Support Tools: Move beyond traditional reports to create products that enable timely and practical use of evidence.
• Navigate Context & Power: Apply relational and contextual strategies to embed evaluation insights and strategic curiosity into program andorganizational design and planning.

Credentialled Evaluator Competency Domains:

• Reflective Practice
• Situational Practice
• Management Practice
• Interpersonal Practice

About the Facilitator:

Allison Prieur, CE, is a learning-focused evaluator and founder of DARE Impact Consulting, with over 20 years of experience in health and human services as an internal leader, external consultant, and funder. She specializes in building evaluation capacity within non-profit organizations and funding bodies, helping teams move from compliance-driven reporting to strategic learningand evidence-informed decision making.

Allison brings deep technical expertise in evaluation design, mixed-methods research, survey and tool development, data analysis, and the facilitation of evaluative thinking. She has led multi-year evaluation capacity building initiatives, supported organizations through systems change efforts, and coached senior leaders to integrate evaluation into strategic planning and governance. Her approach blends methodological rigour with relational practice, ensuring evaluation is both technically sound and context-responsive.

She is a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) and a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University, where her research examines how organizations use evaluation to advance systems change and which evaluator competencies enable this work. She also holds a Master’s in Public Policy and Bachelor’s degrees in Social Work and Developmental Psychology. Allison is known for translating complex evaluation concepts into practical tools and approaches that evaluators can apply with clarity and confidence.