Our Services
You are here because something big is happening at your organization and you want the process to be impactful and well-informed without being overbearing. You need support that sees your strengths, your opportunities, and can tailor solutions to fit your values and goals. That is exactly what we do at Wild Way Consulting.
Our Approach
Wild Way Consulting is informed by numerous experiences, worldviews, and perspectives. We understand knowledge to be multi-faceted, intertwined, embedded, and sometimes contradictory. We do not force our work into artificial boundaries that flatten reality. Instead, we have come to know various models and theories that can be brought into conversation with one another.
Below are some of the movements we draw from when curating a customized theory in which to ground project work. Many of these perspectives find roots in evaluation, which is sometimes considered a transdiscipline that finds relevance in many other fields.
Equitable Evaluation Framework™
The Equitable Evaluation Framework creates dialogue between individuals and their organizations that is focused on learning and change. This perspective offers a detailed model to understand how context, culture, and power intersect, and relates these insights to social change.
Developmental Evaluation
Developmental Evaluation works well with programs undergoing a period of growth, redirection, or another substantial change. Its purpose is to collect valuable information that can be used to inform the program’s development in real time, enabling the program to grow in response to observed needs.
Transformative Research and Evaluation
Transformative Research and Evaluation centers human rights and social justice as a primary imperative of research and evaluation. This approach recognizes that professionals have an ethical commitment to participate in social change through their craft and calls for participants to be active contributors to the inquiry and its outcomes.
Arts-Informed Methods
Arts-Informed Methods invokes the humanity of all participants by embracing various forms of art throughout inquiry processes. The purpose is not to study art itself, but to embed it into processes that reframe tricky questions and empower participants to represent their contributions in ways that are meaningful to them.
Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation
The Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation refers to a set of flexible principles that can be used to guide reflective and collaborative practice. These principles were derived from previous collaboration theories and empirical data collected from evaluators.
Rapid Evaluation Methods
Rapid Evaluation Methods aim to develop speedy inquiries that generate trustworthy data and recommendations when time and/or resources are limited (Williams, 2021). This approach relies on short turn-around times, analyzing data quickly to inform subsequent data collection activities (McNall & Foster-Fishman, 2007).
