We share our passions in our academy
Learning differently: through visuals (and hands-on practice)
We offer mentorships and asynchronous online courses, about data visualization, evaluation and other fascinating topics.
Our Visualization courses teach you how to transform complex information into captivating and easy-to-understand visual stories!
Our Evaluation courses equip you to become a more effective and skilled professional.
Exciting, right?
Our trainings have been created based on experience and passion.
Join our learning platform to equip yourself with skills that can mean a breakthrough in your professional life.
More trainings and trainers are expected to join our program to expand our catalogue.
If you have trainings in mind you would like to see available, let us know.
Expertise and maturity
Testimonials
When you align your purpose and years of work in a fascinating field with amazing people, you realize of how rich your experience is. Here is some feedback of colleagues and friends.
#OMGMQP recommends us
Michael Q. Patton, big influence in the evaluation field, author and creator of many books and approaches, recommend us.
«Sara's visuals in the evaluation space, like visualizing qualitative sampling techniques, evaluator competencies, the periodic table of evaluation, and so much more, have been so incredibly helpful for myself and the field of evaluation. Sara not only makes beautiful visualizations, but she makes the complex simple to understand and reframes things in ways I had not previously thought. We worked with Sara on helping visualize some elements of our book, and she was able to take what was in our head and visualize it so compellingly. I would take a visualization training from her in a heartbeat »
«If you are lost for words or need someone to turn your ideas into compelling visuals, reach out to Sara. Her work is creative, she will listen and accompany you or your organisation on a visual journey. Sara is a joy to work with, her ability to get you the right visuals is amazing.»
«Sara is able to communicate in ways that are clear and effective and share often complex data into accessible and informative visuals. Her approach deepens understands so that strategic decision making can build on the information provided. All of this translates into efficiency for clients and effectiveness for the field.»
«I worked with Sara on a few occasions and all of them were fun! Most memorably we worked together on a set of visuals about presenting different kinds of scales in evaluation. I was really impressed how she managed to present the ideas really simply without any distracting fluff. »
«Everyone does not learn in the same way, with varying degrees of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning occurring. However, of these three senses, vision is by far the most influential for adult learning. Sara Vaca understands and capitalizes on this in her work, helping others to effectively visualize not just data, but concepts, processes, and other key points to achieve learning and communication objectives. I know this firsthand, having had the pleasure of working with Sarah before. »
«Sara Vaca's infographics have been accompanying me for the last ten years, like treats for the mind. Many colours and shapes to help you understand evaluation in a whole new way, with a remarkable ability to produce a synthesis. I've used her materials frequently for university courses, and the feedback I've received from students has been excellent. There's no doubt that this ability to summarise and communicate will make the platform a fantastic learning tool for all new and experienced evaluators alike. »
«I work in a consulting field that is complex and difficult to grasp, often bogged down by convoluted language. For a long time, I struggled with simplifying, clarifying, and pitching my work effectively.
Sara made processes and methods readable and accessible with an astonishing visual fluidity. Since then, proud of this result, I communicate much more easily in my presentations and business proposals. »
«Sara helped me in just 2 hours to describe my entrepreneurial project in a simple and visual way using a decision tree. The result was astonishing. I can now explain clearly and without rambling on for hours what my business brings to the world!
Her talent lies in her ability to ask the right questions and translate them into words, diagrams, and drawings to provide an instant or slide-by-slide understanding of the subject being visualized. »
«Sara Vaca not only conveys her passion for data visualization from the very first moment, but she also succeeds in convincing you of the need to incorporate this technique into evaluation. For evaluators like me, Sara is a role model for her clear commitment to innovation. Moreover, her motivation and dynamism are a source of inspiration. »
«The ease of understanding, the positive impact on the client, the engaging readability, and the innovative reports/documents are the qualities I would highlight as the outcomes of including "loving visuals" in my work. A highly recommendable experience for anyone looking to add an edge to their professional results . »
Customized trainings
If you need a training customized to your team, we love adapting 🙂
We can reinforce your team’s skillsets in Data Visualization, Infographics, Evaluation and Theories of change among others. If you have an in-person training in mind, we can talk about that too.
