Experience and Expertise of Founder and CEO Dr. Robert Tornberg
Dr. Robert E. Tornberg Founder and CEO
Robert "Bob" Tornberg has forty years of experience as an educational leader and teacher educator. He has been an evaluation consultant since 2012, conducting evaluations of PreK-12, higher education, and STEM education programs, not-for-profit organizations,the New York State Unified Court System, museums, and for projects directed toward people with disabilities. He has facilitated evaluations for the Office of Professional Research and Development at the Syracuse University School of Education, where he also teaches graduate courses in Techniques of Educational Evaluation. Dr. Tornberg approaches evaluation consulting as a peer, emphasizing partnership and collaboration, listening and reflection, teaching "evaluative" thinking, and striving to repair the world.
After 10-years' experience as a professional evaluator, Dr. Tornberg established his own evaluation firm, P.E.E.R. Collaborative Evaluation & Consulting, L.L.C., where he focuses on custom designed and personalized evaluation and consulting collaborations with a variety of clients.
Dr. Tornberg earned a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership from the University of Minnesota, with an additional focus on teacher preparation and a minor in Program Evaluation. He received his first B.A. from California State University, Northridge, his second B.A. and an M.A. from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles and was given an honorary doctorate by that institution in 2000. In addition to heading schools, Bob taught in and directed teacher preparation programs at several colleges/universities.
Bob is the author of books and journal articles and has presented at a number of national professional conferences in the fields of both education and evaluation. He currently resides in Upstate New York but is available to conduct evaluations throughout North America.
What we do for you
Examine the ways in which your organization or program pursues its mission and how closely the resulting outcomes match up with stated goals and objectives.
Gather and analyze data about how your current programs, processes, and practices function to reach those goals, objectives, and planned outcomes.
Identify resources, structures, procedures and interpersonal dynamics that affect your outcomes and facilitate rigorous discussion about how to use these findings to improve your efficiency, enhance your effectiveness, and meet your goals, and desired outcomes.
Demonstrate how ongoing collection and consideration of data can allow you to monitor outcomes, facilitate adjustments, and enable continuous improvement.
How we work with you
We listen to and learn from your staff, leaders, program participants, and other stakeholders as a peer and a partner.
We gather quantitative and qualitative data about how your programs, processes, and practices function in light of your mission, goals and objectives.
We analyze and review this data together to see what it may reveal about your organization or program’s dynamics, challenges, and outcomes.
We collaborate with you about how to introduce selected changes and incorporate ongoing evaluation to monitor implementation, assess effectiveness, and enhance future planning.
Throughout each process we highlight opportunities to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion, build trust, and encourage two-way dialogue.
Evaluation of specific programs, projects and processes
Analysis of stakeholder satisfaction
Design, facilitation and analysis of surveys, interviews and focus groups
Strategic planning modeling and logic modeling
Program design and consulting
Team building and leadership development
Grant Consultation