Strengthening Ethical AI Use in Independent Consulting: Considerations for a Professional Values-Driven Approach Thursday, January 15 | 12-1:30pm ET
As generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) transforms the way consultants work, independent evaluators face new opportunities alongside new ethical responsibilities.
This online panel will equip participants with ethical considerations and approaches for using AI when working with different clients, communities, and contexts. Drawing on the three core professional values of the Canadian Evaluation Society as a framing lens, the panellists will examine how independent consultants can make thoughtful, transparent, and responsible decisions about integrating AI tools into their proposals, evaluation designs, data analyses, reporting, and client engagements.
Participants will leave with concrete ideas for values-aligned, AI-enhanced approaches that promote using emerging technologies to support rather than compromise ethical practice in independent consulting.
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Session Facilitator
Vanessa Anastasopoulos, PhD, CE is a bilingual, Montreal-based consultant with 25+ years of evaluation experience. Through her collaborative and equity-driven approach, she has conducted 125+ evaluation and performance measurement projects in sectors like S&T, health, and education. In 2018, she founded VANASTAS, an evaluation firm that provides government, non-profit, and academia clients across Canada with evidence-based insights tailored to their needs. Vanessa is also Cofounder and Chair of ICCI.
Panellists
Carolyn Hoessler, PhD, CE is a credentialed evaluator, educator and facilitator. In the last two decades, Carolyn has led and consulted on over 100 educational, evaluation or strategic change projects with post-secondary institutions and national professional associations, and teaches graduate-level courses on reflexivity, research analysis and informed decision-making. Recent projects include shifting power in higher education, OBEL-Equity cube, and leveraging AI. Carolyn consults at Higher Education & Beyond.
Roman Katsnelson, MBA CED, CE is the founder and principal consultant at KRD Consulting Group on Treaty 7 territory in Calgary/Mohkinstsis. For more than two decades, he has worked alongside governments, non-profits, funders and community-led initiatives on learning-focused evaluation, strategy, and organizational development. His practice centres equity, relational accountability, and utilization, integrating data, dialogue and systems thinking to support collective sense-making and informed action.
Ted Weicker, MBA, CMC, CE is the President of Qatalyst. Ted and his senior team have undertaken more than 800 program evaluations, strategy development, economic and labour market development assignments over the course of his career for clients in government, industry and the nonprofit sector. Combining this experience with a deep understanding of AI has enabled Qatalyst to develop a wide range of apps, tools, and processes, and safely and effectively integrate AI to support its operations across a wide range of consulting tasks.
We look forward to sharing with you this engaging panel discussion on integrating AI in ways that support ethical independent consulting practice!