Nan is the director of Weaving Insights (www.weavinginsights.co.nz) and a member of the Kinnect Group (www.kinnect.co.nz). Nan is a founding member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA) and Ma Te Rae, Māori Evaluation Association – the first Indigenous Evaluation Association. She is also a co-founder of the Developmental Evaluation Institute (https://developmental-evaluation.org/about). Nan’s tribal affiliations are to Ngāti Tukorehe and Ngāti Raukawa, north of Wellington and to Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui on the East Coast of New Zealand.

Nan is a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society. Nan and colleagues were the recipients of the 2013 AES Best Evaluation Policy and Systems framework for the Developmental Evaluation of He Oranga Poutama for Sport New Zealand. Nan is a co-editor (along with Michael Quinn Patton and Kate McKegg) of the book Developmental Evaluation: Real World Applications, Adapted Tools, Questions Answered, Emergent Issues, Lessons Learned, and Essential Principles, Guildford Press, New York, (2015).

Nan specialises in research and evaluation with a focus on Māori and building evaluation capacity with tribes and Māori organisations to evidence outcomes including cultural outcomes. By bringing the voices and views of Māori to government and funders, she aims to offer insight into Māori values and perspective for use in government, business, and community contexts.