Ann K. Emery is a sought-after speaker, trainer, and designer who equips organizations around the globe to visualize their data more effectively.

Within the past year, she led more than 60 trainings for more than 2,800 participants. Every workshop is customized for the client. Popular topics include data visualization best practices, dashboard design, and spreadsheet skills. Workshops range in length from 90 minutes to 3 days. Clients include professional societies, for-profits, nonprofits, foundations, and universities in nearly every sector and content area.

Her design consultancy also overhauls graphs, publications, and slideshows with the goal of making technical information easier to understand for non-technical audiences.

She stays in touch with her first love, program evaluation, by heading a multi-year evaluation of a workforce development program for underemployed adults in Virginia.

Ann is also the Chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Data Visualization and Reporting interest group; member of the American Evaluation Association’s Potent Presentations Initiative Advisory Board and the Professional Development Working Group; past Secretary for the Washington Evaluators; and past conference planner for the Eastern Evaluation Research Society.

Prior to launching her own consultancy, Ann evaluated the effectiveness of advocacy and public policy projects at Innovation Network; managed an internal performance management system at the Latin American Youth Center; evaluated educational programs for local, state, and national education agencies at ICF International; helped to build a coalition of youth-serving nonprofits at the Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families; and contributed to research-to-policy projects at the University of Virginia.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a Master’s degree from George Mason University.