E19 - From Evaluation Volunteer to Chief Executive Officer. The Katherine Haugh Evaluation Career Path Story

Monitoring and Evaluation Boost

Godfrey Senkaba chats with Katherine Haugh, the CEO, and founder of The Convive Collective. Katherine has over 10 years of experience in program evaluation which includes work with both local and international development organizations including USAID and United Nations.

Katherine’s story is interesting, and motivating, particularly in how she turned complexity into clarity, setting forth a successful evaluation career. From doing intern and volunteer roles to monitoring and evaluation specialist and to starting how own organization. She also shares her passion for visual storytelling, particularly illustrations, and how to facilitate learning and dialogue around evaluation data. Below is the discussion outline:

[00:31] Hello, everyone! Introducing Katherine Haugh.

[04:18] A ‘youthful’ Katherine and career dreams before his first professional job?

[6:40] How working different evaluation jobs shaped Katherine’s evaluation perspective, and interests and shared her career goals.

[8:42] How Katherine founded and became CEO of The Convive Collective. What is special about this Business and how is she using her evaluative skills?

[12:47] Top 2-3 skills every evaluation professional should have. For example, powerful synthesis (how to curate the right information and synthesize it for the right audience); facilitation; and creative communication.

[15:03] Biggest challenges Katherine has faced as an evaluator and how she overcame them.

[17:42] Top monitoring and evaluation tools and/or methods Katherine uses to improve her work.

[21:09] Katherine’s career growth strategies and recommendations to evaluators.

[26:27] Katherine’s big plans self and The Convive Collective, over the next several months.

[28:14] Why Katherine believes the young and emerging evaluators should choose the evaluation profession over any other.

[31:05] How to contact Katherine Haugh.

[31:22] Thank you, Katherine. Thank you, everyone, for listening!

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Connect with Katherine Haugh:

E-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/katherine_Haugh

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinehaugh/

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