Building insight through creativity and collaboration.


We partner with community-based organizations, philanthropy, and public agencies to design learning and evaluation processes that are rigorous, participatory, and grounded in lived experience. We help organizations understand how their strategies are working, strengthen internal capacity, and use evidence to inform decision-making, advocacy, and systems change.

  • We support organizations working at the intersection of social justice and community-led change. We believe evaluation should do more than measure outcomes. At its best, it supports reflection, builds organizational capacity, and creates space for learning, especially for organizations navigating complexity.

  • We design evaluation processes that balance rigor with accessibility, and we are attentive to the power dynamics that shape how data is collected, interpreted, and used.  We prioritize:

    • Partnership over extraction

    • Clarity over complexity

    • Culturally responsive and equity-centered approaches

    • Engagement that is low-burden and results in something useful

    We tailor our methods to fit our partners’ contexts and will work closely with you to co-design a process that reflect your values, priorities, and reality.

Services

We provide learning and evaluation services across the full lifecycle of programs and initiatives.

Learning & Evaluation

We design learning and evaluation processes that help organizations reflect, adapt, and take action. This includes mixed-methods evaluation, evaluation framework design, and participatory community engagement. Evaluations are grounded in collaboration and focused on producing insights that are practical, accessible, and useful.

Evaluation Capacity Building

We work with organizations to embed learning into how they plan and make decisions. This includes supporting grantee learning and technical assistance initiatives, developing collaborative learning agendas, and building organizational capacity to implement evaluations internally.

Facilitation & Strategic Reflection

We create structured spaces for groups to pause, learn, and align. Through participatory workshops, collaborative data exploration, and strategic planning processes, we use creative and fun facilitation approaches to enhance engagement, surface insight, and strengthen shared direction.

About

Based in Los Angeles, Shayla Spilker is an evaluation and learning consultant with over a decade of experience in public health and applied research. Her work is grounded in partnership, curiosity, and practical insight. Shayla leads projects directly and collaborates with a trusted network of evaluators and facilitators to support work that benefits from additional perspectives or capacity.

Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, cooking, and spending time with her pets Basil and Flynn, who are often nearby during virtual meetings.

Get in touch at: shayla@spilkerconsulting.com

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