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Stride Consulting


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    ​Creative.
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    I can help you see the outcomes of your work.

Kerry MacKelvie, PhD

I live in North Vancouver, British Columbia and work as an evaluation and research consultant, specializing in healthy living. I help people and organizations plan, implement and evaluate their programs and projects in physical activity, healthy eating, and community development. My goal is to make these programs even better, and help everyone understand and communicate the impacts. The end result? Better programs that achieve intended results, and healthier communities.

What I do

With 25 years' experience in community-based program evaluation and project management, I've worked with diverse clients in the healthy living field. I've led and reported on strategic planning, program development, research, and evaluations in physical activity, children's health, healthy eating, healthy schools, healthy communities, leadership, cardiovascular health, HIV, and tobacco reduction.

Evaluation planning

Are you interested in understanding the impact of your programs? Evaluation planning concurrently with program planning will help produce relevant data, and ensure that the whole team is on the same page with respect to activities and outcomes. I can help with this.

Program evaluation

From evaluation planning to reporting on the outcomes of a multi-year initiative, I can help with this and all the steps in the middle. I work with quantitative and qualitative data, design evaluation tools that will work with your target groups, and analyze towards the most interesting and important findings. Your program evaluation will be comprehensive, while balanced with the realities of working in the real world with real people.

Evaluation communications and knowledge translation

Have you ever had a technical evaluation or research report that you'd like to share, but know that it's just too complicated to effectively reach the public and interest groups? I can help with communicating complex data and ideas to a range of audiences, to ensure that the outcomes of our work are heard, understood, and acted on.