Turn good ideas into real-world results.
I work with non-profits, scientists, and small businesses to improve their services, scale their best work, and create stronger teams through data-driven design and management.
Practice Areas & Services
01 Research and Learning
Combine the best available research, your organizations experience and data, and feedback from your clients to improve the quality, sustainability, scalability, and relevance of your work.
Services include:
- Identify and develop practice-research partnerships
- Formative or process evaluations
- Create or refine a theory of change
- Facilitate after action reviews or learning meetings
- Evidence summaries
02 Performance Monitoring
Define what performance means to your team, create systems to measure it, and develop the habit of reviewing and interpreting that data are essential components of data-driven management.
Services include:
- Develop and track key performance indicators
- Build a monitoring or data system that fits your size and capacity
- Write monitoring or evaluation plans for grant or loan applications
- Create actionable feedback loops
- Learn to understand your analytics
03 Management and Design
Use the information from research, learning, and monitoring to create new or improve existing solutions, manage your work in complex environments, and deliver as promised.
Services include:
- Tools, templates, or training to scale your best practices and work
- Facilitate design sessions for new services, tools, or programs
- Strategic planning for scale or sustainability
- Create or analyze realistic budgets and procurement, implementation, or staffing plans
- Risk mitigation plans
About
I’m Anjuli Shivshanker. I lead Anjuli Consulting LLC and am based in Indianapolis, IN. I have 15 years of experience in research, monitoring and evaluation, public services, and senior management in rural areas affected by natural disasters or conflict. I have worked with universities, scientists, governments, non-profits, and community organizations in violence prevention, substance abuse, emergency response, workforce development, and education.
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Professional Highlights
The Play to Learn project was 6 years and $103 million. I worked with a team of 20 people across 5 organizations to design and curate the project’s Resource Hub to showcase our more useful program resources, tools, and research to other service providers. Available in English and Arabic, the Play to Learn Resource Hub shares how we delivered and researched early childhood services. I lead a collaborative process to set the vision and goal for this key project deliverable, defined the parameters, and created the budget and staffing plan.
To support the implementation of social and emotional learning across USAID Officers of Education, I wrote a “How-to Note” in 2021 as part of my role chairing the Social and Emotional Learning Working Group. This implementation guidance was used by technical advisors and USAID Offices of Education for more than 20 countries. In addition to writing this note, I set the scope, the technical approach for creating the framework and generating implementation principles with over 10 implementing partners, and ensured buy-in and approval across multiple teams.
At the International Rescue Committee, I developed the initial Outcomes and Evidence Framework in 2016, a tool that lets program designers review theories of change, standard indicators, and the best available evidence. I created a process to rapidly synthesize the best available evidence, managed a team of 5 researchers, coordinated with 50 technical experts, and a digital production team with a $1.1 million budget. The Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office rated this initiative an A+ in value for money.