Consulting Services
Every engagement is a partnership. We work alongside your team, scope support to what you need, and stay with the work until it delivers. Find the situation that sounds like yours.
Program & Project Management
Your initiative needs structure and someone to keep it moving.
We partner with your team from planning through closeout, building the plan, coordinating the people and pieces, and keeping everyone focused on what matters.
For example: coordinating a multi-site program launch, with timelines, partner check-ins, and progress reports leadership can read in minutes.
Where we can help:
Project plans, timelines, and milestones
Team and partner coordination
Risk, issue, and progress tracking
Reporting and closeout
Program Evaluation & Applied Research
You need to understand your community's needs or show the impact of your work.
We help you measure what matters, listen to the people you serve, and turn what we learn into findings your team can act on and funders can trust.
For example: a community needs assessment built on interviews and surveys, or an impact report for your board and a grant renewal.
Where we can help:
Needs assessments
Evaluation plans, logic models, and data collection tools
Interviews, focus groups, and surveys
Impact reports and funder reporting
Community Health Research Operations
Your research team is preparing to launch a community or public health study.
We take on the operational groundwork alongside your team, so investigators can focus on the science.
For example: developing the protocol, Manual of Procedures, and IRB submission for a new community-based study, then training study staff.
Where we can help:
Study start-up planning
Protocol and Manual of Procedures development
Study implementation planning
Team coordination, training, and documentation
Meeting & Event Planning
You're planning a convening, workshop, or one-day meeting.
We coordinate the details before and on the day, so your team can focus on the people in the room.
For example: a regional partner convening, from agenda and speakers to day-of run-of-show and a post-event survey.
Where we can help:
Agendas and run-of-show
Speaker, venue, and vendor coordination
Day-of coordination, in person or virtual
Post-event evaluation
“Elizabeth was a true asset to our event... On event day she was hands-on and dependable, and I’d gladly work with her again”
Support for Consulting Firms
Your engagement needs added project management, research, or evaluation capacity.
We join your team as a defined workstream, bringing public health expertise and dependable follow-through.
For example: conducting and analyzing stakeholder interviews for a client's strategic plan.
Where we can help:
Stakeholder interviews and focus groups
Qualitative analysis and synthesis
Evaluation and reporting support
Project management for a defined workstream
How we work together
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A defined project with a clear beginning, end, and deliverables.
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Ownership of one component of a larger initiative, such as the evaluation.
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An extension of your team for project management or research operations.
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Extra hands for a busy period, such as a study start-up or program launch.
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Specialized support within another firm's engagement.
Your Questions, Answered
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Hivner Consulting provides public health program and project management, program evaluation and qualitative research, community health research operations, and public health meeting and event planning. Supporting services include stakeholder interviews, focus groups, facilitation, and specialized support for consulting and evaluation firms.
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Program evaluation services can include evaluation planning, logic models, outcome measures, data collection tools, stakeholder and key informant interviews, focus groups, participant surveys, qualitative and survey analysis, outcome and impact measurement, findings, recommendations, and reporting for leadership, boards, and funders.
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Yes. Qualitative evaluation is a particular strength of Hivner Consulting. Services include stakeholder and key informant interviews, focus groups, discovery conversations, qualitative analysis, thematic synthesis, and translating stakeholder and participant perspectives into clear findings and recommendations.
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Community health research operations provides practical operational support for investigator-initiated, community-based, and public health-focused research. Services can include study start-up planning, protocol and Manual of Procedures development, IRB submission coordination, implementation planning, research team coordination, documentation, and study closeout.
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Yes. Hivner Consulting can support a defined portion of a larger strategic planning engagement, particularly through stakeholder interviews, focus groups, qualitative research, findings synthesis, evaluation, and goal or objective development.
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Hivner Consulting coordinates small-to-medium professional meetings, workshops, convenings, and one-day events, generally for groups of about 100 people or fewer. Services can include agenda and run-of-show development, speaker and presenter coordination, venue and vendor coordination, attendee communications, and on-site or virtual day-of support.
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Yes. Hivner Consulting can serve as a subcontracting or collaborative partner within a larger consulting, evaluation, research, or strategic planning engagement. Support can include stakeholder interviews, focus groups, qualitative research and analysis, evaluation support, research synthesis, reporting, and other defined workstreams.