Karyl Askew Consulting, LLC

“…I write down so many things that (Karyl) says in meetings as I learn from her how to facilitate conversations and meetings, and to respond to people in… the most… respectful, open way. So, thank you for teaching me along the way in addition to the evaluation work we are engaged in, because you have a special skill… and it’s really special to be a part of..so thank you.”

Senior Director of Programs

“You make my role so much easier and less stressful with your open communication, knowledge, professionalism, and diligent work ethic.”

School Counselor

Thanks so much for your leadership on these [meetings]…I always find the meetings you lead to be extremely helpful! It is truly a great gift that you have…I find working with you helps my communication skills!

-A Professional Colleague

Thank you for your leadership last week – it was wonderful to watch you in action as you gently and purposefully led us where we needed to go.

A Professional Colleague

“I just have to say, this is such amazing work!  I have so enjoyed reviewing it this morning – it is so clearly put together and serves to remind me of all the wonderful pieces of information we have learned along the way.  I look forward to discussing it together…”

Director, Community Impact Grantmaking

“The project design Karyl and her team created with us consistently centered community in the work and featured built-in opportunities for staff to pause and think about our strategic approach and organizational processes. We are grateful for the team’s excellent work and collaboration. Our work together helped us rethink the ways in which we will continue to learn with the community and work with evaluation consultants in the future.”

Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

“The brevity of this thank you is inversely proportional to the amount of gratitude I feel for your team’s efforts in […] the way the work culminated in today’s community dialogue. […] leaning into the organic nature of the event felt great and I think that was both a learning and highly satisfying experience for the Foundation staff. I’m very hopeful it was rich and rewarding for the community members who brought so much of themselves to the dialogue as well. Also, the intentionality your team infused into the work was so apparent today – from [the presence of community guides]…to the supportive notetaking tools, created a space in which people could really share and connect!”  

Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

“Just a quick note to again say thank you for the excellent report you provided for us. It has been well received by my colleagues at Book Harvest as well as the grant administrators at DPI. I am grateful for the work we did together and the hope that it will help to ensure that more children read on grade level.”

Project Director

“Thank you for doing such a terrific job with the write-up, logic model and tables for the evaluation section. It’s way more beautiful, tight, elegant & thorough than I had even hoped for, and none of my internal readers have found much to say because they feel it’s so strong. Yay!!!! I know it took a lot of time to get into the weeds as well as the big-picture, so thank you for your willingness to do all that legwork.”

Senior Research Scientist

“I hope you are having a great day!  I wanted to let you know the proposal is submitted. I ran short on time with a few things and this proposal is much stronger than the last one thanks to you all.  I hope we are working together again in the future.”

Project Director 

“(Karyl,) While you may hear my “what is the actionable item?” voice, I hear you reminding me “whose voice isn’t being heard?”… and I credit all the time I was able to learn/work with you as to making me more aware that we can always hear/listen more. Thank you!

– Project Principal Investigator

“I enjoyed being a part of this holistic process. I learned a lot from Monifa and Karyl about how to understand social groups and systems and how to respect each other. I appreciated that this was a paid position, as often, these kinds of advisory roles are unpaid.”

– Evaluation Advisory Member

“The Visioning Dialogue was the first space where I had the chance to meet [other projects in my cohort], and I really enjoyed it. Everyone seemed to be really enthusiastic to be there, and it was energizing to be with everyone. It made me wish that we had an opportunity to all meet sooner, and on a more regular basis. I also thought that the Visioning Dialogue’s breakout rooms were really effective in garnering productive discussions.

– Evaluation Advisory Member

“I learned a lot from the process on how evaluations work and how these types of meetings can be facilitated. I really admired how Monifa and Karyl facilitated each meeting to be welcoming and respectful of all of our ideas and perspectives.”

– Evaluation Advisory Member

“I appreciated having concrete expectations and a timeline of what the advisory board could expect. I wish I knew further ahead that this opportunity existed, because if I knew ahead I could have adjusted some of my academic schedule to fit in the regular meetings more….There is not much I would suggest changing from this experience, I really enjoyed it.”

– Evaluation Advisory Member

“Good morning, All –

I wanted to let you know that during the monitoring event for our [grant], our funders were very impressed about our evaluation and the work completed with our external evaluator – you!

They have asked us to give a workshop for other program directors that receive funds from similar grant programs about the process of working with an external evaluator. I wanted to share this with you since it is a huge compliment to you all!“

– Director of Programs

“We wanted you to know that we have officially submitted our NSF Y2 annual report.

Thank you for your professionalism, dedication, and compassion. We so appreciate you both and the work you do in partnership with us. Looking forward to year 3.”

–STEM Education Specialist & Project Manager