Heidi Schaeffer is the founder of Advancing Change Together (ACT). ACT facilitates multi-partner collaboration, adaptive strategy development, collective impact, participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation of programs and partnerships aimed at improving health and well-being systems. Heidi has a Masters of Education in Transformative Adult Learning and Critical Global and Community Issues. She brings over 15 years of experience facilitating equity-focused strategy and performance measurement with organizations in community health and determinants of health. She managed knowledge mobilization, learning and evaluation initiatives with the Ontario Alliance for Healthier Communities (Formerly the Association of Ontario Health Centres) from 2010-2018. Heidi has facilitated Outcome Mapping and/or Outcome Harvesting workshops in Canada, Tanzania, Belgium, Lebanon, Switzerland, Sri Lanka and Kenya. She is a chair and steward of the global Outcome Mapping Learning Community.
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Clients Who Come to ACT |
What We Do |
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Clients come to ACT when they are looking for ways to measure things that are hard to measure, like belonging and inclusion, and they hear about our work in Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting. Clients are often looking for support with their journey to discover how their work is contributing to changed relationships, policy and practice changes at many levels within organizations and across systems. People connect with Heidi because she listens deeply to their needs and works with them to build their organizations capacity for evaluative thinking and equity-focused change management. They hear Heidi can help them plan and facilitate inclusive and highly engaged learning and evaluation processes that support agile decision-making, adaptive planning and evaluating outcomes.
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Act is committed to advancing healthy, thriving and sustainable living including access for all to the determinants of health and wellbeing. We work to support groups, organizations and networks that are delivering services and programs that help build caring, connected and inclusive communities with integrated and aligned community health and wellbeing systems. We bring a systems-informed intentional outcome-based design and facilitate participatory strategies and evaluation processes that help groups, organizations, and networks working on persistent systemic challenges. We strengthen evidence-based decision making and support our clients to achieve their desired outcomes and to measure and demonstrate their collective contributions to systemic impacts.
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