The Evaluation Handbook: An Evaluator’s Companion, edited by Rog & Bickman (Guilford Press, 2025) is now available.

This pragmatic evaluator’s companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses.

See Gail’s important chapter: Chapter 23 “The Independent Consultant: An Insider’s Guide to a Consulting Career” (pp. 445-464). It is a summary of her thinking over the past 35 years and includes the following topics:

• The consulting landscape
• Key traits and ethics
• Starting up
• Finding a market niche
• Getting work
• Key lessons