Principal
Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Senior Researcher at the Center for
Innovation
Ph.D., Economics, University of New Mexico, 1984
Gretchen Jordan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with Sandia
National Laboratories. Since 1993 she has worked with the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) to develop innovative methods for assessing
the effectiveness of research programs. Projects with the DOE Office of
Science include methods to assess and improve the research environment
and identification of best practice in the management of science. She
also works with DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy offices on
evaluation and performance measurement at the project, program and
portfolio levels and assists the Sandia Science and Technology Strategic
Management Unit in those areas. She has edited two special issues on
measuring R&D performance, the Journal of Technology Transfer, July
1997, and Evaluation and Program Planning, 1999, and contributed
chapters to two books on evaluating science program.
Dr. Jordan is an experienced trainer and an expert in the art of
logic modeling, a planning and evaluation tool often referred to as
program theory. She has presented workshops on logic modeling for the
U.S. DOE Cosortium for Energy Efficiency, Association of Energy Service
Professionals, International Energy Program Evaluation Conference,
Wisconsin Focus on Energy Program, and others. She coauthored an article
with John A. McLaughlin (Logic Models: A Tool for Telling Your
Performance Story, Evaluation and Program Planning, 1999) that trainers
have translated into Russian and French. She and Dr. McLaughlin have a
chapter on logic modeling in the second edition of The Handbook of
Practical Program Evaluation, edited by Joe Wholey, Harry Hatry, and
Katherine Newocomer (Jossey-Bass, 2004).
Prior to joining Sandia, Dr. Jordan was Chairman of the Business
Administration Department at the College of Santa Fe and staff member of
Senator Pete V. Domenici and the Senate Budget Committee.
