Kayla Meyers built Bridgepoint Evaluation around one insight: her expertise didn't need 40 hours a week. After going in-house to build a nonprofit evaluation system from scratch, she turned that role into her first fractional client.

This episode covers how fractional evaluation works month-to-month, how she pitched the transition to her employer, and how to position evaluation as strategy rather than compliance.

• Fractional consulting works in specialised fields - the model applies wherever organisations need senior expertise without a full-time hire
• Turning an in-house role into your first fractional client is possible - frame it around what's best for the organisation
• The cost of a person is different from their salary - framing pricing that way creates a genuine win-win
• When you do good fractional work, the ED stops thinking about your function - so you have to proactively communicate your value
• One-time evaluation projects can convert to ongoing fractional clients when clients experience what an evaluative learning culture feels like

Kayla Meyers is the founder of Bridgepoint Evaluation in Minneapolis, providing fractional evaluation management, coaching, and impact reporting to nonprofits. She teaches program evaluation at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

• bridgepointevaluation.com
• linkedin.com/in/bridgepointkayla
• https://buildingbettertogether.co/ [URL to confirm]
• consultants4good.com
• eval.org
• Minnesota Evaluation Association [URL to confirm]
• Rising Tide Society [URL to confirm]
• Strengthen the Strong [URL to confirm]

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