About the facilitator Steve Montague

Steve is an internationally acclaimed and award winning Canadian expert in performance planning, measurement and evaluation. He has over 35 years of professional experience as a practitioner and teacher, is an adjunct professor at Carleton University and has received the Karl Boudreault Award for Leadership in Evaluation in 2003, the National Award for Service to Evaluation in 2015 and was made a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society in 2011. Steve co-founded and three times served as the President of Performance Planning and Exchange (www.ppx.ca) – a not-for profit serving Ottawa for the past 21 years. He has taught Results-Based Management 101 (RBM 101) for PPX for the past four years.  Steve has also been the longest standing deliverer of the Essential Skills Series in Evaluation in Canada – doing so for the past 16 years.  He has given workshops in performance measurement and evaluation to the World Bank, OECD, United Nations and several Canadian provincial and national government organizations across four continents. He has also worked with essentially every portfolio of the Canadian Federal service – including numerous assignments for the Canadian Treasury Board Secretariat. Of particular interest for this session is  Steve’s recent work with two UN agencies applying RBM principles to various organizational levels and contexts – to complement his 35 years of experience in Canadian and international practice.