YOUR EVALUATION PARTNER
From the first conversation
to lasting capability
Choose the support that is right for you
Visual Insights works with organisations at every stage of their evaluation journey — from building the foundations to running a hub-and-spoke evaluation function — a central point of coordination (the hub) supporting evaluation champions embedded across your teams (the spokes).
Whether you need ongoing partnership, targeted building of capability and capacity, or tools to work independently, we meet you where you are.
Full partnership support
YOUR ONGOING EVALUATION PARTNER
Visual Insights coordinates evaluation activity across your organisation — enabling, quality assuring and building the capability and capacity of your own staff to lead the work. We support you with a depth of evaluation and specialist experience and academic rigour.
Includes a combination of:
Coaching/mentoring
Workshops
Community of practice
Systems support
Quality assurance
Outcomes frameworks
BEST FOR
Organisations that want ongoing evaluation support — external capacity to strengthen or substitute for a solo internal position.
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Workshops and training
TARGETED CAPABILITY BUILDING
We provide specific capability workshops and programs. Choose from a range of evaluation, methods and communications workshops designed around your organisation's goals, people and context using our visually engaging pictures/stories/play approach.
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Includes a combination of:
Tailored workshops
Training resources
Tools and templates
Focused in-session activities
Online or face-to-face
Diverse range of topics
BEST FOR
Organisations needing a specific evaluation capability boost, a team upskill, or a structured introduction to evaluation.
Packages and games
BUILDING CAPABILITY INDEPENDENTLY
The same tools our consultancy uses, available for your team to use independently. Research-grounded, visually engaging, and designed to make complex evaluation ideas accessible and actionable. We have a range of packages and games that make dry concepts accessible and fun.
Includes a combination of:
Self-paced learning
Games and packages
Facilitators' resources
Video presentations
Activity templates/handouts
Seven capability areas
BEST FOR
Evaluators, facilitators, and organisations who want to work at their own pace across any of the seven disc areas.
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DESIGNED FOR YOU
Who we work with
We partner with organisations across every sector who share the same goal — building evaluation capability that lasts, not just completing a one-off project.
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Whether you're a government agency, a not-for-profit, an educational institution, an internal evaluation team, or a professional association supporting your members, we tailor our approach to where you are and what you need.
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Government
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Not-for-profit and community organisations
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Educational institutions
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Evaluators and facilitators
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Professional associations and societies
THE PROCESS
How partnership works
A structured path from first conversation to independent capability — with you leading the way.
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Scoping conversation​
We start by learning about your organisation — your evaluation maturity, your team's capacity, and what success looks like for you.
Together, we design the right engagement model, whether that's full partnership, targeted workshops, or a combination tailored to your needs.​
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Your practical plan
We use our Visual Insights readiness tools to understand where your team is right now, and identify the highest-value starting points across the seven capability areas.
From this, we draft a six-month or annual plan, giving you a clear, practical roadmap for the work ahead.
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Building and doing
Tools from our packages are introduced and mentoring and coaching is tailored.
Champions are identified and a community of practice is formed.
Your staff lead the work, with our team providing coaching and quality assurance. Evaluations are planned with support.
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Lasting capability and capacity
Your staff have the tools and templates they need to progress evaluation. Standards, procedures, and exemplars are embedded. Your team leads evaluation confidently, with the systems and resourcing in place to sustain it.
Capability and capacity stay — long after the engagement ends.
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Working with Dr Samantha Abbato and Visual Insights has had a lasting impact on the way we work at Legal Aid WA. Sam hasn't just strengthened our evaluation skills—she has changed the way we think about projects. Evaluation is now embedded from the outset, shaping how we design initiatives, plan, and measure the difference our work makes.
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Sam has an exceptional ability to make evaluation engaging, practical and relevant. Her training challenged our staff to think differently with an evaluation mindset, ask better questions and see their work through a new lens, while always being tailored to our different roles and levels of experience. The result was a team that was genuinely engaged and excited to apply what they had learned.
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The resources Sam developed are practical, high quality and continue to be used across our organisation. More importantly, she has built lasting in-house capability and confidence.
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The knowledge and tools Sam has shared continue to influence how we develop projects, make decisions and demonstrate our impact. It has been a genuinely transformative partnership, and one that continues to deliver benefits well beyond the training itself.
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Helen Loreck
Managing Solicitor, Projects
Legal Aid Western Australia
STILL DECIDING?
Not sure which option is right for you?
Every organisation's evaluation journey looks different. Talk to us and we'll help you find the right starting point — no pressure, no jargon
Each engagement is scoped and quoted individually — there's no cost or obligation for an initial conversation.