OPEN ACCESS WEBINAR · FREE · ONLINE
Results at the Speed of Trust
A new approach to contribution tracing and results assessment.
PPX Webinar Series · University of Ottawa Centre on Governance
December 8, 2026
12–1 p.m. Eastern · Live online · Registration required
12–1 p.m. Eastern · Live online · Registration required
Webinar Details
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Format: Live Online Webinar
Cost: Free
Duration: 1 Hour
Audience: Open to researchers, evaluators, policymakers, practitioners, students, and professionals from the public, private, academic, and non-profit sectors.
How can we demonstrate that a program or policy contributed to results when success depends on people, relationships, networks, and trust?
This webinar introduces a practical approach to Cause-Effect Contribution Tracing that places relationships and trust directly within results logic. Building on conventional logic models, the session explores how Bayesian and probabilistic approaches can help assess contribution even where information is incomplete or uncertain.
Participants will examine how relationship networks, influence pathways, and trust can be incorporated into performance assessment, evaluation, program design, monitoring, and value-for-money discussions.
Through a detailed case example, attendees will see how conventional program theories can be extended to better understand the relational factors that help produce results.
What You Will Learn
- Why reach, relationships, trust, and influence networks are essential components of results achievement.
- How Cause-and-Effect Contribution Tracing complements traditional logic models and theories of change.
- Practical approaches for incorporating relational factors into performance measurement and evaluation frameworks.
- How contribution tracing can strengthen accountability, learning, and value-for-money assessments.
- Ways to assess the likelihood of success of programs, policies, projects, and initiatives.
- How probabilistic and evidence-based approaches can support more credible impact assessments.
- Methods for making assumptions, enabling factors, and trust networks visible within results stories.
Why Attend?
Many organizations acknowledge that trust, collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and influence matter, yet few have practical ways to incorporate these factors into performance measurement and evaluation systems.
This webinar offers a fresh perspective by treating relationships and trust as measurable contributors to success rather than intangible background conditions. Participants will gain practical ideas for improving results planning, strengthening theories of change, and telling more compelling and evidence-informed performance stories.
Who Should Attend?
- Performance measurement professionals
- Evaluators
- Results-based management practitioners
- Policy analysts
- Program managers
- Researchers and research administrators
- Government professionals
- Non-profit and civil society leaders
- Innovation and organizational development professionals
- Students interested in evaluation, public policy, organizational change, and performance measurement
About the Presenters
Greg Richards brings experience in organizational performance, systems thinking, and analytical approaches to complex challenges. His work focuses on understanding how relationships, engagement, influence, and trust contribute to organizational and societal outcomes.
Steve Montague is a recognized leader in results-based management, performance measurement, evaluation, and organizational learning. Through decades of work with governments, research organizations, and international partners, he has helped organizations strengthen results frameworks, improve accountability, and support evidence-informed decision-making.
Together, Steve and Greg will explore how contribution tracing can make the invisible drivers of success more visible and measurable, helping organizations better understand how results are achieved and sustained. The webinar is intended as an accessible session for practitioners while also introducing innovative concepts that may shape future approaches to performance measurement and evaluation.
Registration
This webinar is offered free of charge as part of the PPX Webinar Series.
Join us to explore how trust, relationships, engagement, and influence can be incorporated into stronger theories of change, more meaningful performance measurement systems, and more credible results stories.