Marcia Nation, Ph.D. is the principal and owner of Nation Evaluation Consulting, LLC. She has 20 years of experience working with organizations on program evaluation, strategic planning, and performance measurement.
Marcia brings expertise in applied social science research to her evaluation work, including experience in survey design, focus group facilitation, interviewing, and statistical analysis. She uses mixed methods for data collection and analysis and employs a systems-thinking approach in her work.
Marcia’s clients are organizations engaged in work focused on societal and sustainability impacts, including higher education institutions, non profit organizations, and governmental agencies. She evaluates STEM education programs, professional development programs, and community resilience and sustainability initiatives and provides guidance for strategic planning. Marcia has experience in designing evaluations for collaborations, networks, and coalitions working toward common goals and collective impacts that involve complexity and adaptive management.
Marcia works with organizations to design and implement evaluations with an emphasis on building internal evaluation capacity and the use of evaluation results. She wants clients to come away from an evaluation with new ideas and tools for promoting their programs’ growth and development.