​​Providing a sounding board for leaders to think through and identify goals and strategies​

Clarify organizational or programmatic vision and theory of change, underlying values, and historical context, specifically policies that may have contributed to inequities the organization is addressing

Strengthening organizational culture around shared values

Determining the people or communities to whom an organization or program is accountable to, and aligning programs, strategies and operations accordingly

Creating and institutionalizing processes that move toward participant ownership of program planning, implementation and evaluation processes.

Developing or refining strategic intentions, program goals, and resources needed

Testing assumptions made between proposed activities and proposed outcomes

Putting in place strategic and ample opportunities for pausing, reflecting, learning, and adapting (e.g., process evaluation - are we able to implement programs as we intended, and if not why not?)

Creating, refining, and/or embedding evaluative processes that detect progress toward key indicators of success (e.g., outcome evaluation - to what extent are we able to detect progress toward our definition of success?)

Developing and refining data collection and analysis systems

Getting program or organizational staff on the same page with regard to key terms such as: evaluation, impact, indicators, outcomes, values, organizational culture, power, race, racism, systems, equity, equality, inclusion, diversity, etc.