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WhitworthKee, a research and evaluation firm inspiring confident decisions

When you’re making high-stakes decisions, clear and credible insights are a necessity.

Whether implementing a health or education program, mapping a strategic plan, or considering major organizational changes, you need a research and evaluation firm with experience and expertise to deliver the data and insights that inspire confident decision-making.

The novel solutions you need from a research company

WhitworthKee specializes in customized research, evaluation, and organizational change management approaches that drive measurable outcomes. Experts in conducting large and small-scale projects, and educators at heart, the WhitworthKee team brings a range of knowledge and skills to each project. Together, we work with your team to understand the full context of your organization, programs, and communities, and maximize research insights. We integrate our expertise with educational training to ensure effective communication and thoughtful facilitation with our partners.

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Customized research, analysis and evaluation to fit your needs

Every program, organization, and community is unique. When you team with WhitworthKee, you add a flexible and adaptable research firm that works collaboratively with our partners to find creative solutions and meet your needs and desired outcomes. From evaluation to strategic planning, organizational change management and community-centered approaches, we see every partnership as an opportunity to explore methods that open possibilities.

Capabilities

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A love for learning, at the core

When partnering with WhitworthKee, you’ll immediately sense our love for teaching, learning, and passion for storytelling through data. Our team brings vast experience in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research. Team members hold advanced degrees in a wide range of disciplines including public health, comparative medicine and integrative biology, community psychology, sociology, higher education, and more. The resulting cross-pollination of ideas informs research, analysis, and evaluations, yielding richer data and empowering partners to achieve intended outcomes.

Meet Our Team

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Multidisciplinary insights to support successful outcomes

WhitworthKee brings extensive experience in research design, implementation, analysis, and reporting across sectors—including federal, state, and local government; nonprofit organizations and NGOs; higher education; and corporations. No matter the stage of your program or initiative, or state of your organization, our multifaceted researchers and evaluators are dedicated to revealing the insights you need to make critical decisions with confidence.

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Higher Education

The higher education environment is one of complexity, with priorities and resources often shifting. As an institutional leader, you want to know student, staff, and faculty programs and initiatives are impactful and adequately support recruitment, retention, and graduation rates. When it comes to creating a strategic plan or taking on other organizational change management endeavors, each partnership with a higher education institution or related nonprofit or association is tailored to address needs and enhance existing resources by a team steeped in higher education research, practical services, and promising practices. From environmental scans and other research through implementation and refinement, WhitworthKee brings a rich higher education experience and a methodical approach to identify and present novel solutions.

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Government

As a decision maker at the federal, state or local level, program efficiency and effectiveness are always priorities. WhitworthKee’s research, evaluation, and organizational change experts become trusted stakeholders and gain a deep, comprehensive understanding of what is and isn’t working to offer sensible, streamlined solutions. Our multifaceted researchers and evaluators dig deep, harnessing a variety of methods to obtain a thorough understanding of your organization and find solutions. From small city governments to federal departments, agencies and programs, WhitworthKee will right-size our approach to get the results you need.

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Nonprofit

As a nonprofit leader, you face myriad challenges and need every investment to be a benefit, every action to bring results. With our research, evaluation, and organizational change consultants at your side, your nonprofit will be empowered to enact sustainable transformations with attainable, measurable outcomes. That may be through a comprehensive program evaluation, or through the creation of or the revising of a strategic plan. Or, it may be through other change management possibilities, which are guided by evidence-based findings and analytical insights. From healthcare to education to community development and beyond, our range of research, evaluation, and change management experience benefits partners large and small with local, regional, and national footprints.

What our
clients say

Barbara Blount

Armstrong Corporations and Foundations Officer Institutional Advancement, Morgan State University

The evaluation protocol developed for our Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), along with their expert understanding of organizational development advanced planning and implementation of the project. Moreover, their work helped to inform a strategic plan that has implications to change the institutional curriculum that will lead to enhanced workforce development initiatives for our students. The evaluation and education expertise possessed by the WhitworthKee team, coupled with their collaborative and innovative approaches made them the go-to expert and ideal partner for our project.

Jamie Riley, Ph.D.

Former Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

The WhitworthKee team brought along expertise that involved developing an efficient data collection plan that addressed our needs and met our aggressive timeline. The findings and recommendations were helpful to confirm outstanding organizational decisions and to inform development of short- and long-term goals. It is through the use of their services that I have been able to transform our organizational model and establish an actionable plan for the next five years.

Miguel Fernandez, Ph.D.

Chief Diversity Officer, Middlebury College

In partnership with the Washington Consulting Group, WhitworthKee Consulting has lead an organized, collegial, and efficient assessment of our campus climate. We have been impressed with their interview skills and facilitation of focus group sessions. All of the members of the WhitworthKee Consulting team are knowledgeable and able to work well and efficiently with data. They are experienced and easy to work with and we have been pleased with the reports and services provided.

Brian K. Bridges, Ph.D.

Vice President for Research & Member Engagement, UNCF

WhitworthKee evaluated the impact of one of UNCF’s most prominent scholarship programs and provided on-site data collection activities, in-depth reporting, and deep staff engagement that allowed them to fully understand and successfully summarize the program and its effectiveness. The WhitworthKee team asked probing questions of staff and program participants to assure the reliability and accuracy of their evaluation. We were very pleased with their deliverables and the collegial spirit with which they worked.

Dr. Annette Parker

President, South Central College

It is my sincere pleasure to recommend WhitworthKee Consulting, LLC (WKC) for the Environmental Scan, Strategies, and Roadmap for Community Health Center Education Efforts project. My organization, South Central College, contracted WKC to engage in an array of strategic planning-related activities. These included environmental scans; interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders; and developing a final strategic plan that outlined the organization’s, mission and vision, long-term strategic goals, specific objectives, and performance metrics.

Some key highlights of the partnership include WKC’s:
• understanding of our college’s unique challenges and aspirations.
• exceptional skill in navigating the complex interpersonal dynamics of academic institutions.
• evidence-based strategic recommendations tailored specifically to our institutional context.

Should you have any questions about our work with WKC, please do not hesitate to ask.