Testimonials

Evaluation

  • "Dara is the analytical mind and open heart that everyone wants on their team. Dara's ability to analyze data, create easy to digest ways of communicating those results, and help people create solutions to the problems that arise is unmatched."

    — Jean Madison Reiser

  • "I believe one of Dara's greatest strengths is her ability to take complex data and research and communicate it with 'non-data' team members. She is able to take complicated ideas and work with teams to develop action plans to solve the most difficult problems."

    — Kayla Colianni

  • "Dara is an exceptionally good thinker, consensus builder, and communicator. Her superpower is taking complex qualitative data and distilling it into simple, accurate, and visually appealing information that she uses to drive meaningful organizational change."

    — Crystal Coache

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Facilitation

  • "During the time that Dara worked for Sharp Insight, she demonstrated her skills as an experienced facilitator and her commitment to high quality youth programming, specifically in the out-of-school time field. Dara brings a high level of energy and laughter into every room she enters."

    — Jana Sharp

  • "Dara is an exquisite trainer, facilitator, and peer leader. As her colleague, I witnessed her engage various audiences on topics that are typically deemed less than 'exciting' - data, monitoring, and evaluation. She was always able to use these face-to-face opportunities to relate to individual participants and create memorable experiences that allowed them to take back important lessons learned to their organizations."

    — Kim Wensel

  • "Dara has a deep understanding of OST program quality and evaluation and is able to facilitate learning experiences that allow her to share her knowledge in a manner that is conducive to others being able to learn and apply the training content in a meaningful way to their work."

    — Jennifer Harris

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Strategy

  • "In my four years working closely with Dara, she provided strategic data inputs to guide our impact storytelling for donor and other external audiences, leading to millions of dollars in contributions to Urban Teachers."

    — Emily Bitgood

  • "Dara has unique strengths in interdisciplinary collaboration, capacity building and community engagement, all which make her evaluation work more meaningful and actionable for stakeholders. I had the pleasure of participating in an initiative that Dara led to develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Urban Teachers, an important step for supporting program improvement and strategic learning. Ultimately, with Dara’s leadership, we were able to agree upon our first ever set of KPIs."

    — Alicia Vooris

  • "In working towards a strategic plan, Dara led the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). In this role, she demonstrated her strong leadership skills, which include her ability to transparently communicate and build consensus."

    — Kristina Cassiday

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Retreats

  • "From the moment I met Dara, I felt incredibly comfortable and welcomed. She exudes the natural qualities you'd want in a retreat host - authenticity, non-judgment, humor, high energy, and fun. It's very clear that one of her natural abilities is bringing people together to inspire action and collaboration."

    — Nicole Steen

  • "Dara in an incredible retreat host. The small details made the retreat feel like a home away from home. She's a generous and welcoming host!"

    — Arianna Valle

  • "Dara was a phenomenal host. Charismatic, charming and warm and approachable. Dara wasn't afraid to ask difficult questions or challenge me to grow, but she is also intuitive and empathetic so knew how to support me in becoming the best version of myself. Not only that, but Dara is witty and easily engaged the room so was able to get people laughing which made the retreat really fun."

    — Alicia Vooris