Knowledge Mobilization

I help you effectively communicate different types of knowledge in meaningful, approachable, and innovative ways to your target audiences to support action by:

• Creating a mobilization plan - This is a critical component of grant and funding applications. A solid plan will help you target your messaging to the right audience in the right mediums.

• Co-developing knowledge mobilization strategies, tools & products - Engaging your stakeholders in the design and implementation of your knowledge mobilization strategies will help to ensure that what you do will resonate and create lasting impact.

• Mobilizing knowledge - Getting knowledge into the hands of those that need it to drive decisions is core to my scientific practice. I can help you get creative in ways that are meaningful for your audience.

• Evaluating knowledge mobilization efforts - Examining your strategies and their implementation will help you continue to do what works and put aside what doesn’t.

Research & Evaluation

I provide strategic guidance in the design, development, implementation, interpretation, and evaluation of both “big R” and “little r” research and evaluation projects by:

• Identifying & evaluating what is already known - By synthesizing, interpreting, and evaluating the existing research and grey literature, I help you understand what has already been done and how you can use this knowledge to your advantage.

• Examining your data - Looking at your research or administrative data, I identify how it can be put to work to answer your big questions.

• Synthesizing new information to answer your questions - By designing, developing, and implementing projects, I help you experiment with your ideas and gather the knowledge you need to move forward.

• Building your internal research capacity - Through customized training and coaching on a variety of research and evaluation methods, I can build your internal capacity to address your research needs.

Evidence-Informed Decision Making

I help you to harness different types of evidence and apply critical knowledge based on your unique context to support your organizational goals & achieve your desired impact by:

• Generating evidence-informed options & recommendations - Marrying research evidence with complex contexts is key to your short-term, intermediate, and long-range strategic planning.

• Assessing your processes - Understanding your highly functional processes as well as the elements that don’t work, will maximize your resources and productivity to achieve your desired impact.

• Understanding impact - Connecting your work to your desired impact is critical for funding applications, Board reports, and communicating with the world about why you do what you do - and whether you are actually doing it.

• Facilitating the change process - Successful organizational and behaviour change techniques will help you to adopt more effective practices, set aside practices that no longer serve you, and ensure your activities align with your mission and desired impact.