Our team brings together people with content area expertise and transferable skills to fit the needs of the project.

Director and Principal

Anne Bergen, PhD

I help individuals and organizations transform knowledge into action.

Through my work in non-profit, government, and academic sectors, I help clients measure and understand the outcomes and impacts of outreach, education, and collaboration. I draw upon social science theory and evaluation best practice to develop frameworks and strategies for collecting rigorous, meaningful, and actionable data.  I am skilled in synthesizing evidence from multiple sources into coherent and useful products.

I love the challenge of co-creating and realizing research agendas and evaluation plans that meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. I believe in building a common understanding of problems and solutions through participatory research. I am skilled at navigating through the messiness of collaborative research and evaluation projects, and in mobilizing knowledge to inform policy and practice.

Skills

collaborative research; data management; facilitation; knowledge mobilization; oral and written communication; program evaluation; project management; qualitative and quantitative methods; social psychology; stakeholder engagement; training

Land acknowledgement

I am based out of Guelph, which occupies the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron/ Chonnonton, the Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples, and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples live and work in Guelph.

As a settler on this land, I am grateful for the opportunity to make my home here. I am committed to learning and practice that promotes reconciliation and justice for Indigenous communities.

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