JLM

Services

Ten services, from the broadest framing down to the most specific task. They can be engaged separately or as a full sequence.

01

Organizational strategy and purpose

Defining what an organization is really trying to achieve and designing the path that gets it there. Includes aligning each sector strategy with that purpose and facilitating the workshops where that alignment gets agreed on.

02

Leadership and alignment of multi-country teams

Coordinating teams spread across multiple countries around a shared design, connecting initiatives that are moving forward separately, and sustaining the technical conversation in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

03

Results-oriented project management

Taking a project from intent to delivery, with management information consolidated and ready for decision-making. Includes planning, monitoring, risk management, and donor reporting.

04

Theory of change for projects and institutions

Building the causal chain that connects the problem to its determinants and solutions, and from there to the development objectives. It's the viability test a strategy needs before initiatives get funded.

05

Strategic use of data and artificial intelligence

Turning available data into concrete decisions, and using artificial intelligence to raise the quality of the output — not just its speed — with human judgment at every decision point.

06

Information flow and internal process design

Redesigning how information moves through an institution so it stops producing delays, errors, and duplicated work. Includes the data structure that supports that flow.

07

Diagnostic research and evidence

Producing the evidence that underpins a strategy before committing the budget: mapping of stakeholders, narratives, initiatives, and knowledge assets, drawing on primary and secondary research.

08

Program and portfolio evaluation

Assessing what worked, what didn't, and why, using methods chosen for what the decision actually requires. Includes midterm, final, impact, and portfolio evaluations.

09

Monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems

Building the system that produces evidence on an ongoing basis, along with the mechanisms that make that evidence change decisions instead of being filed away at the end of the cycle.

10

Output-to-impact indicator design

Defining indicators that can actually be measured with the data a program has, and targets the causal argument can defend to a funder.

How I work

Direct engagement or subcontracting through implementing firms. By deliverable or as ongoing support throughout the project cycle. Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Tell me about your project

Not sure yet which of the ten applies? Write to me and we'll figure it out together.