Learning & Evaluation

Your organization is building AI capability. You're investing in training, rolling out new tools, and developing policies. How will you know if it's actually working?

Don’t Miss Your Opportunity to Learn

You wouldn't launch a major program without evaluation. You wouldn't invest in staff development without measuring outcomes. Yet organizations across the social sector are implementing AI initiatives without a systematic way to understand what's working, what's not, and why.

That's where strategic learning and evaluation comes in.

My Approach: Where Learning Science Meets Real-World Implementation

With over twenty years of experience in adult learning environments and deep expertise in human motivation and behavior change, I bring a unique lens to evaluating AI capacity development initiatives.

I understand that:

  • Adult learners need different approaches than traditional training models

  • Mission-driven organizations have their unique sets of challenges that require hand-on, values-driven approaches

  • Behavior change requires more than just awareness-building and knowledge transfer

  • Sustainable adoption happens when intrinsic motivation aligns with organizational systems and a psychologically safe organizational culture

  • The best evaluations generate insights that improve programs in real-time

Strategic learning and evaluation is much more than post-program smile sheets. It's about creating learning systems that help your AI initiative get better while it's happening and in service of the culture you want to build and maintain

Learning & Evaluation Services

Program Design Consultation

For organizations developing AI capacity building programs

You know you need to build AI capability, but you want to get the program design right from the start. Drawing from adult learning principles, motivation theory, and behavior change research, I'll help you create programs that actually stick.

What we'll design together:

  • Meaningful Learning Objectives: Moving beyond awareness to actual practice change

  • Motivation-Aligned Program Architecture: Leveraging intrinsic motivation rather than fighting it

  • Implementation-Focused Content: Connecting AI concepts to real-world application

  • Built-In Learning Systems: Evaluation approaches integrated from day one

  • Sustainability Mechanisms: Ensuring learning continues beyond formal programming

Drawing from proven frameworks:

  • Adult learning principles that recognize how working professionals actually develop new capabilities

  • Behavior change research on what makes new practices stick

  • Organizational learning theory for creating culture change

Perfect for: Organizations in the planning stages of AI capability development who want to invest in programs designed for maximum impact and sustainable adoption.

Strategic Learning Partnerships

For ongoing AI initiative optimization

Your AI initiative is underway, but you want a thought partner who can help you learn and adapt as you go. This isn't traditional evaluation that happens at the end — it's embedded strategic learning that makes your initiative smarter over time.

How we'll work together:

  • Continuous Learning Design: Building feedback loops and reflection practices into your initiative

  • Data-Informed Adaptation: Using real-time insights to refine your approach

  • Team Learning Facilitation: Helping your team develop its own capacity to learn from implementation

  • Strategic Questioning: Surfacing the right questions to guide your ongoing development

  • Impact Storytelling: Helping you articulate and share what you're learning

This partnership approach recognizes that:

  • The best learning happens during implementation

  • Teams need support to reflect on and learn from their experience

  • Strategic questions are often more valuable than definitive answers

  • Building internal learning capacity is as important as external evaluation

Perfect for: Organizations and teams who want an embedded learning partner to help their AI initiative evolve and improve over time.

Don’t Overlook the Learning

AI initiatives without evaluation is like innovation without intention. You might get good results, but  unless you’re learning from them, you won’t understand why, how to replicate them, or how to sustain them.

In twenty years of working with learning and change initiatives, I've seen this pattern repeatedly: organizations invest heavily in new approaches, assume they're working because people seem engaged (or abandon the efforts when people aren’t), and then wonder why adoption fades or results vary dramatically across teams.

The organizations that succeed with digital transformations like AI will be the ones that:

  • Measure behavior change, not just satisfaction scores

  • Understand the human factors that drive sustainable adoption

  • Build learning systems that improve programs while they're running

  • Connect AI capability development to actual organizational outcomes

About This Approach

This work sits at the intersection of my three areas of expertise: AI implementation, leadership development, and strategic learning. With deep experience in adult learning environments, program design and continuous improvement, and expertise in human motivation and behavior change, I bring a unique perspective to evaluating AI capacity development.

You don't have to choose between rigorous evaluation and practical application. The best strategic learning does both.

Ready to Measure What Matters?

If you're implementing AI capacity development and want to understand what's actually working, let's talk.

Book a free 30-minute strategic learning consultation where we'll discuss:

  • What outcomes you're hoping to achieve with your AI initiative

  • The evaluation questions that would be most valuable for your organization

  • How strategic learning could strengthen your current approach

  • Whether a partnership makes sense for your goals and timeline

    Schedule below or email valerie@missionbloom.co