L. Kris Gowen, Phd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Supporting WES's social impact, policy, and trust-based philanthropic initiatives via developing evaluation frameworks & logic models, facilitating strategic planning & sense-making sessions, and vetting and managing external evaluation consultants. Serving as the Communications Liaison for the organization's LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group.

Develop team agendas, provide strategic insights, and facilitate meetings for an advocacy group dedicated to changing funding practices. Strive to create more transparent, equitable, and trust-based approaches.

USA/Canada

• I work with community-based organizations, specializing in healthcare, social services, and youth development to support their evaluation, research, and strategic planning efforts. Specialize in centering equity.
• Developing and leading a mixed-method evaluation to assess feasibility and impact of an innovative sexuality education curriculum centered on social and reproductive justice.
• Developed and executed a change management training to senior leadership for a non-profit addressing food insecurity that’s shifting its strategic approach from charity-based to equity-based / mutual aid. Topics.
• Developed and led a Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion strategy, including a two-day training for a national non-profit looking to launch a unified EDI strategy across provincial sites. Training used a change management.
• Supported community-engaged survey design and conducted mixed-method data analysis of 8 annual state-wide, youth-driven research projects. Results were presented by youth to leaders to shape their school-based.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for building organizational culture in evaluation, and creating the evaluation plan and monitoring tools to support programs for children with cancer and their families. Supervised and mentored staff in.
• Designed the Theory of Change and program logical frameworks that led to a revised mission statement and strategic plan. Synthesized existing survey and stakeholder satisfaction data, conducted interviews, and drew.
• Managed the development of the organization’s 5-year EDI strategic plan using a Human-Centred Design approach. Worked with external stakeholders and consultants. Synthesized data from different surveys across multiple.
• Analysed and synthesized Employee Engagement Survey data to identify organizational strengths and areas of improvement. Led six open forum sessions for employees to discuss targeted findings and provide solutions to.

Portland, Oregon Area

Led cross-functional team collaborations to create health systems changePresented findings to local and national audiences consisting of a variety of stakeholders.Built evaluation capacity in community-based organizations and physician researchersManaged up to nine projects simultaneously.Guided policy change and community program improvement.Authored team.

Portland, OR

Provided technical assistance and evaluation support to both academics and community organizations to support the development of projects based on community-identified health and wellness needs.Additionally, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, I examined how to assess the success of translational research -- getting research.

Rustaq, Sultanate Of Oman

Taught Research Methods, English for Academic Purposes, and Business English to Omani business and education majors.

Awarded funding through successful federal, state, and foundation grant writing.Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Public Health both face-to-face and online.Designed and implemented qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method research projects from start to finish.Areas of expertise include program evaluation; mental health and healthy.

Served as Director of Dissemination for a Research Institute, managing the dissemination efforts of seven research projects.Editor of Focal Point, an annual publication addressing young and young adult mental health, with over 23,000 subscribers.Managed and hosted a webinar series focusing on best research practices in youth mental health using GotoWebinar.

Phd, Education

Activities and Societies: Stanford Center on Adolescence

Celta, The Cambridge Certificate In Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages

Edm, Human Development

Ba, Communication