Conference Presentations
Below are a list of Natalie’s past professional conference presentations.
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Forum for Youth Investment in Detroit, MI
Southeast Rural Philanthropy Days in Rocky Ford, CO
Shifting Identities in Different Contexts – De Sole, N.
2023 – American Evaluation Association – Conference Presentation
Evaluation Capacity Building 101 – De Sole, N. & Carlson, L.
2023 – Southeast Rural Philanthropy Days – Skill Building Workshop
Center Learning and Your Mission – De Sole, N. & Carlson, L.
2023 – Colorado Nonprofit Association – Online
Learning While Scaling: Balancing Flexibility and Quality When Implementing Career Self-Efficacy and Trauma-Informed Social Emotional Learning Training for Detroit Youth During COVID-19 – De Sole, N. & Burton, M.
2023 – Forum for Youth Investment – Conference Presentation
Youth-Led Systems Change: How to Courageously Champion Systems Level Change in a Time of Uncertainty – De Sole, N., Redrick, A., Smith, D., Burton, M., & Nelson, C.
2023 – Forum for Youth Investment – Conference Presentation
Back to the Basics – De Sole, N. & VanHekken, G.
2022 – Southwest Rural Philanthropy Days – Skill Building Workshop
Learning Forward Evaluation™ – De Sole, N.
2021 – Northeast Rural Philanthropy Days – Skill Build Workshop
Embedding Organizational Learning into Your Evaluation – De Sole, N.
2019 – Presented three times: Rural Philanthropy Days, Paonia, CO, Department of Human Services Office Early Childhood Grantee Meeting, Denver, and Denver Evaluation Network.
Let’s Learn Together! Supporting the Use of Organizational Learning Principles in Your Evaluations – De Sole, N.
2019 – Colorado Nonprofit Associations 2020 Conference
Harvesting Knowledge Through Reflection – De Sole, N.
September 2017 – Canadian Evaluation Society – Professional Development Webinar*
May 2017 – Canadian Evaluation Society – Annual Conference Presentation
See post-CES blogger’s review: CES Lasting Impressions Blog
The Evaluator’s Professional Learning Cycle: Deliberate and Reflective Practices for Improving Evaluation Practice – Mason, S. & De Sole, N. with discussant Gullickson, A.
November 2017 – American Evaluation Association – Conference Presentation
Diagnosing and Improving Stakeholder Engagement: Towards Maximizing Evaluation Use – Hwalek, M., Hazel, S. & De Sole, N.
November 2015 American Evaluation Association – Conference Presentation
Part 1: Mechanics of Writing Convincing Evaluation Proposals – Hwalek, M. & De Sole, N.
November 2015 – American Evaluation Association – Professional Development Workshop*
Part 2: Increasing the Win Rate of Evaluation Proposals – Hwalek, M. & De Sole, N.
November 2015 – American Evaluation Association Conference – Professional Development Workshop*
Increasing the Evaluator’s Influence: techniques and micro-practices – De Sole, N. & Hwalek, M.
June 2015 – Canadian Evaluation Society – Conference Presentation
The Art of Bringing Evaluation to Life: Can Evaluators Find Flow Through Reflection? – De Sole, N. & McBride, D.
November 2014 – American Evaluation Association – Conference Presentation
Writing a Winning Evaluation Proposal – Hwalek, M. & De Sole, N.
October 2014 – American Evaluation Association Conference – Professional Development Workshop*
The Social Psychology of Evaluation Think Tank – Hwalek, M. & De Sole, N.
June 2014 – Canadian Evaluation Society – Conference Presentation
EvaluationLive! Maximizing the Evaluation Experience – Mcbride, D. & De Sole, N. with discussant Hwalek, M.
October 2013 – American Evaluation Association – Conference Presentation
Natalie's expertise helped us to analyze the effects of our multi-year youth development. Her skill around conducting focus groups, capturing that data and generating easy to read reports of our findings was invaluable to us, especially for writing grant reports and presenting findings to key stakeholders.
