This event is hosted by the Systems Practice Community – not SCEU! We love their sessions, though, and there’s synchronicity to share. Find out more information about the Systems Practice Community, and this session, join their google group: https://groups.google.com/g/systems-practice-community
How do you bring a systems lens into evaluation in less-than-ideal conditions? When someone wants systems thinking included but is still building their understanding? Or when what's already in place leans linear, and there's little room to maneuver? There isn't one clean answer, but there are ways in. In this interactive session, Alexandria Sedar will share her experience using facilitation strategies that bring a systems lens into evaluation while strengthening the capacity of the teams she works with. Participants will experience some of these strategies firsthand, grounded in real scenarios from her practice, and have space to share what has worked in their own contexts, ask questions, and learn from each other.
About Alexandria
Alexandria Sedar is the founder of A. Sedar Consulting, LLC and part of the team at Convive Collective. For over a decade, she has partnered with organizations across sectors, from grassroots coalitions to government agencies to Fortune 100 companies, bringing a systems lens to evaluation, capacity building, and program design. Her work in the US and Latin America, spanning infrastructure projects, MEL systems, and violence prevention, shapes how she thinks about complexity, context, and what rigor looks like in practice. A systems thinker, peacebuilder, and self-described facilitation nerd, she is guided by a belief in the power of story and creativity to build shared understanding and foster collective action. When she's not doing this work, she's growing and cooking food, exploring new places, working on one of her fiction stories, or accumulating random facts.