I am Jane Buckley, an educator, organizational learning consultant, and evaluation capacity building specialist based in Rochester, New York. I help practitioners develop the skills and habits to plan, evaluate, and improve their programs.

Teaching is central to my consulting. Whether we are developing a pathway model, interpreting evaluation findings, or examining assumptions, I design the process so that participants learn approaches they can apply again. My role is to bring educational and evaluation expertise into partnership with the knowledge people already have about their own work.

I grew up in Ithaca, New York, and earned a B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University in 2004 and an M.Ed. from Bank Street College of Education in 2006. I began my career teaching young children and working in community education. In 2008, I joined the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation, where I facilitated evaluation partnerships with science education programs, military family programs, and faculty professional development initiatives.

Since establishing my independent consulting practice in 2015, I have worked with universities, foundations, nonprofits, and international development organizations. My collaborations include the RYTE Institute at Montclair State University, Yale’s STEM-PERL Lab, Catholic Relief Services, the Greater Good Science Center, and The Duke Endowment.

My work includes professional learning in evaluative thinking and relational systems evaluation, faculty workshops in pathway modeling, and collaborative curriculum development integrating virtual reality with character education. I coauthor research and practical resources that help people teach and use evaluation.

I live in Rochester with my husband and three children.