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Rachael Trotman

Rachael Trotman leads a social change consultancy called Weave, from her whare in Auckland’s Waitakere Ranges. Rachael is passionate about helping people turn their natural curiosity and desire to make a difference into skillful, transformative action. Communicating impact and value in ways that people get is another passion. She is on the ANZEA Board and her work covers a spectrum of research, evaluation, facilitation, coaching and mentoring.

Kate McKegg

Kate McKegg has worked in the fields of evaluation, evaluation capacity building, research, policy and public sector management since the late 1980s. In 2002 she started The Knowledge Institute Ltd, after a decade of working in policy and evaluation in the government sector. Since 2007, the Knowledge Institute has been a member of the Kinnect Group, which combines the strengths of four experienced evaluators.

Kate has specialist skills in developmental evaluation, strategy, policy, and programme evaluation, evaluation capacity building, research, evaluation training and facilitation.

Kate is a founding member, and the current Convenor of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA). She has a deep and long lasting commitment to the development of the evaluation field and profession because she believes that evaluation, and evaluative thinking and practice can contribute to the betterment of our society.