A Trusted Partner in Data-Led Strategy

Transforming Data into Actionable Insight
We help teams navigate big challenges by connecting the dots between data, people, and purpose. By working across systems where innovation, education, and workforce transformation meet — we guide institutions, companies, and coalitions as they work to develop the future of the STEM workforce.
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Clients turn to us for more than findings — they turn to us for strategic partnership.
Our key areas of support include:
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WHY TRG

Realize your vision and achieve success

At The Rucks Group, we believe better futures are built when data is used not just to understand the world, but to improve it. That’s why, since 2008, we’ve partnered with visionary teams across the education-workforce-innovation ecosystem to bridge gaps between insight and action – aligning people, purpose, and systems to move initiatives forward. We don’t just analyze data. We bring systems into focus. We uncover patterns, clarify direction, and help leaders design solutions that stick — all while keeping people at the center of every conversation.
Our Team of Experts
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Technically Skilled

Our team brings a rare blend of analytical rigor, contextual intelligence, and cross-sector fluency — helping clients solve real-world problems with clarity and confidence.
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Human-Centric Orientation
Our ability to merge together data analytics from both an IT and social science perspective gives us a different lens: we understand data and how people can to respond to the data. That’s how we help clients navigate complexity and move faster smarter, and with intention.
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Vision Driven
Solutions are not one-size-fits-all. That is why we approach our work through the lens of each of our clients to support them in achieving their unique visions.

SERVICES & PROCESS

Academic-level expertise at business level speed.
Research and program evaluation are powerful tools to maximize the return on invested resources and it also deliver data insights for continuous improvement. As evaluation professionals, we use program evaluation to address our nation's most wicked problems and create sustainable opportunities for future generations.
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Purpose-Aligned
Strategy

Designing right-sized data strategies to guide decisions, proposals, and action.

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Purpose-Built
Tools

Creating tools that uncover what matters most and illuminate progress.

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Data Ethics
& Protocol Support

Navigating protections of data and related process with integrity and care.

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Data Analysis
& Transformation

Turning raw data into meaning — and meaning into strategy.

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Project
Monitoring

Building systems that track progress, flag misalignments, and adapt in real time.

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Report
Development

Crafting reports that don’t just document – they drive engagement and mobilize stakeholders.

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Program
Evaluation

Employing a developmental evaluative approach to support continuous improvement.

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Dissemination
Support

Transforming project outcomes into accessible, community-centered resources that extend the reach of your work.

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SERVICES & SOLUTIONS

Academic-level expertise at business level speed
We believe data is most powerful when it moves beyond measurement to meaning. That’s why we work with organizations addressing some the nation’s most wicked challenges — helping them surface insight, align action, and build lasting systems that serve generations to come.
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News and Upcoming Dates
2025 ASEE Annual Conference

June 22-25, Montreal, Canada

2025 Annual HI-TEC Conference

July 21 -24, 2025, Minneapolis, MN

2025 National ATE Principal Investigators’ Conference

October 29-31, 2025, Washington D.C.

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They are the gold standard. The team is professional and qualified in several areas. They are my go-to evaluation experts when I'm serving as a project PI. The Rucks Group is the evaluator's evaluator!"

Yvette Pearson, Ph.D.

Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, The University of Texas Dallas and Founder & Principal Consultant, The Pearson Evaluation and Education Research (PEER) Group, LLC.
Partner with a team that brings clarity, direction, and momentum to your mission.
Our team brings a rare mix of academic insight and business agility — offering data-informed strategy at business-level speed. We don’t just analyze data; we build our clients’ capacity to act on it with purpose and confidence.
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