PICTURES. STORIES. PLAY.
Serious evaluation expertise.
Delivered playfully.
CONSULTANCY
Visual Insights works with government agencies and non-profit organisations as their central evaluation hub — building internal evaluation capability, providing quality assurance, and supporting outcomes framework development.
Looking for an ongoing evaluation partner for your organisation?
She slowed things down when we needed and kept us accountable so we could continue progressing.
Our team loved the visual frameworks, and the pictorial toolkits made evaluation far more accessible for both employees and program participants.
Kim Campbell
Senior Manager
South Australian Council for Intellectual Disability
OUR APPROACH
Pictures. Stories. Play
The tools are playful. The expertise behind them is serious.
Visual Insights packages are grounded in rigorous research and evaluation practice, and informed by a rich body of theory about how people, teams and organisations learn, change and improve.
We've ditched the jargon and the dry slidedecks. Instead, every package uses pictures, stories and play to make complex ideas stick — and to make the learning something your team actually wants to show up for.
OUR FRAMEWORK
Seven ways to strengthen your team and organisation
Pick any area that fits your team's needs right now — then go deeper when you're ready.
Areas 1–6 are all great starting points.
Area 7 builds on the skills you've already developed.
The Visual Insights Capacity Building Disc
START HERE — CHOOSE ANY AREA
Change management and leadership
Clear and critical thinking
Good communication and impactful reporting
Readiness for evaluation
Program and project modelling
Project and evaluation foundations
WHEN YOU ARE READY TO GO DEEPER
Build on your foundation
Evaluation and research methods and approaches
The most technical area - best approached after completing several of the areas above.
Who we work with
Government
Commonwealth, state and local government, statutory bodies and public sector agencies delivering services to the community.
Not-for-profit organisations
Community services, charities and non-profits delivering programs and support to the people they serve.​
Educational institutions
Universities, TAFEs and schools embedding evaluation and critical thinking into curricula and student learning.
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Evaluators and facilitators
Evaluators, facilitators and consultants building evaluation capability, whether working in-house or for a consultancy.
Professional associations
Evaluation societies, colleges and membership bodies building capability for their members through training sessions.
Change management and leadership
The Change Train Game
A hands-on game that brings change management theory to life. Teams explore the drivers and barriers of change through a collaborative and energising experience. Play that is based on theories behavioural science, leadership and change management theory.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
Find the right level of support
From self-directed packages to fully tailored organisational programs —
there is an option for every team and every budget.
Prefer to work independently? Browse our packages and games.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Hear from those we've worked with
It has been a real privilege to work with Sam and the Visual Insights team. We have learned so much.
We have learned so much. When I think back, we were so task-focused that thinking and talking about the big picture (like vision and outcomes) was just so foreign. We were just wanting to talk about what we were doing and our processes.
Sam had the persistence and patience to work with us from where we were at. She was able to keep us on track and move with us where we needed to move. It is a real skill-set to be able to adapt to our organisation in this way. It worked really well.
The shift to an outcomes-focused organisation and full evaluation implementation is a massive thing for our organisation. It is something we feel immensely proud of. We are proud that we did it, that we got through it, and that we got what we wanted out of it.
Jayne Lloyd
Director
CatholicCare NT
We are proud that it is an organisational change that will live on beyond ourselves. This culture and skills change is a significant legacy of five years of partnership with Visual Insights People.
Sam is an extremely skilled evaluator and educator. She was approachable, adaptable, and responded to our team’s needs throughout our engagement.
She slowed things down when we needed, and also kept us accountable so we could keep progressing. Our team loved the graphics and the visual aspect of Visual Insights frameworks materials. The pictorial toolkits with flashcards and posters made evaluation much more accessible for our employees and program participants. The process felt genuinely collaborative along the way. Sam was open to learning about and incorporating our accessible approaches too, including adapting her presentations and guidance for our self-paced working sessions.
Through our coaching sessions, Sam found a good balance between providing hands-on support and enabling us to take ownership of the deep thinking and artefacts.
As a result, I feel confident that our team and the broader organisation now has the capabilities to apply evaluative thinking and frameworks across other programs in the future.
Kim Campbell
Senior Manager
South Australian Council for Intellectual Disability
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