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Elizabeth Bury is an independent consultant and an Associate at the Collins Center for Public Management at UMass Boston. She has two decades experience in the fields of program planning, evaluation and performance management. She specializes in advising government agencies and nonprofit program managers on the use of performance indicator systems to enable results based management. With strong expertise in facilitation and participatory methods, she has led numerous workshops involving program managers and stakeholders in creating strategic frameworks and performance measurement plans for projects in a wide variety of program areas. She has also overseen a variety of evaluations involving both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including sophisticated econometric analyses, large surveys and structured program reviews. Bury also has a strong background developing and delivering training on performance management issues. She has taught previously at West Virginia University and Community College of Micronesia.

Bury holds a master’s degree in regional development planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and psychology from Dartmouth College. She also completed a Diversity Management Certificate from NTL Institute and holds a US Government Secret Security Clearance.