Why Become a Consultant - Featuring Matt Feldmann

Why Become a Consultant
Matt Feldmann will take on the question of Why. Why 'what' you ask? Why..
...leave your job and all of that so called security?
...take a chance on yourself?
...figure out how to be independent?
...work out of your home?

...have flexible time for your family or yourself?

...make more money than you did as a W-2 employee?
...suffer the agony of marketing and sales?
...set up a business?
...enjoy working with the clients/project YOU choose to work with?
Why ...become an independent evaluation consultant?

Matt will share survey data from the Independent Consulting TIG about experiences from new independent consultants. He also will share his own Top 10 list of whys. The session will focus on questions and engaging conversational chats about the topic.

Matt is an experienced program evaluator, educational researcher, and firm director for Goshen Consulting, located in Edwardsville, Illinois (the furthest southern suburb of Chicago). He has more than 25 years of experience as a contractor, evaluator, and principal investigator with federal grants. Matt completed his doctorate in education from Iowa State University with a focus on postsecondary finance. He has developed special competencies for quasi-experimental evaluation approaches, large dataset analysis, approaches to STEM education, student at-risk identification, and educator shortage. He has extensive experience with programs funded by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Education, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, NASA, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, SAMHSA, nonprofits and state agencies including the Illinois State Board of Education.  

Matt helped found the Evaluation Association of St. Louis and was the founding president of the organization from 2018 – 2022. He is a leader in the American Evaluation Association and currently hosts a weekly session with independent consultants (IC Topic Chats).