Chris Lysy
About Chris Lysy
Engagement is not an accident. If nobody reads your reports, downloads your resources, visits your website, or generally cares about your work, you can do something about it. I started my career as a quantitative data analyst and program evaluator supporting large federal government programs and data collections. The government spends billions of dollars every year on research. Most of it ends up unreported, on dusty shelves, inside obscure restricted use datasets, and hidden in plain sight through jargon filled research papers. This is why I shifted to my career path from data to design. We can do better. We have the technology. We have the methods. You just need someone who cares enough to put engagement and design into the budget. And not just as a checkbox. --- Career Accomplishments to Date: > Developed and continuously shared thousands of cartoons designed to effectively engage a broader audience in discussions around evaluation, data, and design. > Trained hundreds of program evaluators and researchers, helping to enhance their data design and digital engagement skills. > Shared hundreds of blog posts at freshspectrum.com over the past decade and a half on topics associated with data and design. > Constructed a network blog of blogs at evalcentral.com helping to virtually connect the evaluation community and launching the digital careers of multiple current evaluation and design thought leaders. > Written and published two books, "The Reporting Revolution" & "Evaluation Illustrated," and have seen work published in countless presentations, websites, and academic textbooks. > With the support of the CDC and the Michigan Public Health Institute, designed, developed, and facilitated an effective modern online learning community model. > Created hundreds of digital capacity building resources shared across a wide range of technical assistance and support resource sites and toolkits. --- Want to see more of my work or schedule a chat? Visit my portfolio at https://my.freshspectrum.com