Wheeler Insights
Research. Intelligence. Foresight.
Original research and strategic intelligence to help mission-driven leaders understand emerging trends, navigate complexity, and make more informed decisions.
What is Wheeler Insights
The knowledge practice behind the strategy.
Wheeler Insights is the research and intelligence practice of Wheeler Consulting Group. While Wheeler Social Impact leads strategy and execution consulting, Wheeler Insights develops the knowledge base that makes that work more effective and more accessible to leaders across the social sector.
Our research is original, applied, and designed to inform action. We develop insight that helps organizations understand complex challenges, make smarter decisions, and anticipate the forces shaping their operating environment.
Wheeler Insights currently publishes original research and maintains The Impact Report, our newsletter distributed via LinkedIn. A separate Wheeler Insights domain is forthcoming. Publications are available for purchase via Amazon.
WHAT WE RESEARCH
Three Areas of Applied Research.
Root Cause & Systems Analysis
We conduct research that helps leaders understand why conditions exist, identify contributing factors, and uncover the systemic drivers behind complex social, organizational, and community challenges.
Program Evaluation & Outcome Research
We evaluate programs, initiatives, and interventions to determine what is working, what is not, and what adjustments can improve performance, effectiveness, and outcomes.
Practice-Based Research & Field Insights
We study promising practices, emerging approaches, and organizational innovations to identify lessons, generate new knowledge, and explore what may be transferable or scalable across organizations, systems, and communities.
Our Areas of Focus
From data to actionable understanding.
Stakeholder Insights
We design surveys, interviews, focus groups, community assessments, and stakeholder engagement processes that capture the perspectives of residents, employees, partners, funders, and community members.
Examples
Community Needs Assessments
Employee & Partner Feedback Studies
Resident and Stakeholder Insights
Landscape & Asset Mapping Studies
Evaluation & Analytics
We conduct program evaluations, performance assessments, implementation reviews, and quantitative and qualitative analyses that help leaders understand effectiveness, measure outcomes, and strengthen decision-making.
Examples
Program Evaluations
Outcome and Impact Analysis
Performance Measurement Systems
Organizational Assessments
Data Analysis & Reporting
Strategic Foresight
We help leaders identify emerging trends, assess risks, explore future scenarios, and prepare for changing social, economic, demographic, technological, and policy conditions.
Examples
Scenario Planning
Trend & Environmental Scanning
Strategic Foresight Workshops
Future Readiness Assessments
Risk & Opportunity Analysis
Featured Research
Long-COVID: The Lasting Impact of the Pandemic on the Nonprofit Sector
A mixed-methods research initiative conducted in partnership with United Way of Central Indiana, examining the long-term workforce impacts of COVID-19 on the nonprofit sector including findings on extended leave, talent retention, and lasting organizational health effects.
Available Resources:
Newsletter
The Impact Report
The flagship newsletter of Wheeler Insights, published on LinkedIn. Each issue delivers original research findings, strategic analysis, and intelligence briefings for mission-driven leaders.
Topics include workforce equity, community development strategy, philanthropic investment trends, and leadership insights from the field.
Ready to move from insight to impact?
Let's Build Something That Lasts
We partner with a select number of organizations at a time. Start with a free 30-minute strategy conversation.