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In 1988 I founded RK&A, a company that supported museums through audience research and evaluation. Prior to that, I held a variety of staff positions, including executive director at a history museum; exhibition designer at a natural history museum; interpretive planner and writer at a botanic garden; and an audience researcher and evaluator at an art museum. These multi-disciplinary experiences heighted my sensitivities about what different museums afford the public and deepened my understanding of many topics—all of which strengthened my ability to have purposeful conversations with a range of staff when discussing their museum’s work.

With a passion for museums and desire to strengthen the relationship between museums and people, I focused the last two decades of my career on creating strategies to help museums plan their work to maximize impact among the public. Intentional practice, which grew organically from my evaluation work, uses an impact-based approach to planning that encourages staff to work collaboratively across departments to articulate their intended impact on people, evaluate their achievement of impact, reflect on what they learned, and align their resources and programs to deepen their organization’s intended impact.  Collectively, these actions—planning, evaluating, reflecting, and aligning—result in two vital outcomes: learning—personally, professionally, and organizationally—and meaningful experiences among visitors.

I am deeply committed to this work and over the years I shared my enthusiasm for learning through intentional practice at conferences and in journal articles, book chapters, and university classrooms. This website allows me to continue sharing these ideas with students, professionals, and others who may be interested in evaluation, museum planning, and maximizing impact through intentional practice. Here you will find blog posts, published manuscripts, and presentations captured through video. All this work led to my writing Intentional Practice for Museums: A Guide for Maximizing Impact, which is available through the publisher Rowman & Littlefield https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538106358/Intentional-Practice-for-Museums-A-Guide-for-Maximizing-Impact

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