People

 


 

Hallie Preskill

Hallie Preskill

Executive Director
Strategic Learning and Evaluation Center

hallie.preskill@fsg-impact.org

Hallie leads a team of experienced FSG consultants who provide evaluation expertise over a wide range of topic areas, including the arts and culture, health system reform, economic development, youth and education, and more. Hallie guides clients on planning and conducting evaluations, designing evaluation and performance measurement systems, building evaluation capacity, and facilitating organizational learning.

For more than 20 years, Hallie has provided evaluation and organizational learning services and training workshops for healthcare, nonprofit, education, foundation, government, and corporate organizations. She has held academic positions at Claremont Graduate University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis/St. Paul), where she taught courses in program evaluation, organizational learning, Appreciative Inquiry, consulting, and training design and delivery. An active writer of books and articles, Hallie has received several awards, including the American Evaluation Association’s Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Outstanding Professional Practice in 2002 and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.  In 2007, she served as President of the American Evaluation Association. 

Hallie holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


 

Representative Clients

Battle Creek Unlimited

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

McCormick Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Ideas

Practical Guide for Engaging Stakeholders
Developing evaluation questions

Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry
How to use Appreciative Inquiry for evaluation purposes

Building Evaluation Capacity
72 activities for facilitating learning from and about evaluation

Evaluation in Organizations
Designing and implementing useful evaluations


Speaking Engagements

American Evaluation Association
Session: Facilitating Evaluation Capacity Building

Council on Foundations
Session: Exploring the Possibilities of Evaluation

Bush Foundation
Workshop: Dynamic Adaptability and Evaluation

National Arts Strategies
Workshop: Building Evaluation Capacity