Sarah is Managing Partner at Synergia. Sarah is a highly collaborative leader who enjoys seeing Synergia thrive and add value to our clients and communities. She is an evaluation specialist who is passionate about evaluations that recognise multiple world views while delivering robust and pragmatic findings.

Sarah is widely known for her expertise in mixed methods evaluations. She uses mixed methods frameworks to integrate rigorous quantitative analysis with rich qualitative insights, demonstrating outcomes and evidencing value. She has successfully led numerous evaluations across the health, social, disability, and sport and recreation sectors. Her approach weaves together diverse perspectives, ensuring evaluations are inclusive, insightful, and practically useful.

At the heart of Sarah’s work is a commitment to providing robust evaluations that deepen understanding and drive improvement. She focuses on translating evidence into practice through thoughtful evaluation design, collaborative implementation, shared sense-making, and clear dissemination. Sarah also champions the role evaluation can play in building organisations' evaluative capability, enabling them to tell and own their own value story.

Sarah’s evaluation practice is grounded in her academic background, including her experience as a Lecturer in Evaluation at the University of Auckland and her role as a former Co-Convenor of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association Board. She regularly contributes to the field through peer reviewing academic journals and evaluation reports.

Alongside her professional work, Sarah has also contributed through voluntary service, including a Board role with HELP Wellington