About Us
Evaluation, Research and Organizational Analysis for Education and Not for Profit Organizations
Fenix Consulting takes its name from the bird rising from the ashes and its spelling from the Ridley Fenix, a performance-oriented endurance bike. Both of these are apt symbols to represent my professional “second act,” as my theatre-loving daughter and business partner, Madeline, might phrase it.
Fenix Consulting takes its name from the bird rising from the ashes and its spelling from the Ridley Fenix, a performance-oriented endurance bike. Both of these are apt symbols to represent my professional “second act,” as my theatre-loving daughter and business partner, Madeline, might phrase it.
Fenix Consulting takes its name from the bird rising from the ashes and its spelling from the Ridley Fenix, a performance-oriented endurance bike. Both of these are apt symbols to represent my professional “second act,” as my theatre-loving daughter and business partner, Madeline, might phrase it.
Andrew Wall
Dr. Andrew F. Wall (he/him) is an academic, author, and leader in education and evaluation. He has most recently served as the Dean of the School of Education at the University of Redlands and as Associate Professor and Department Chair of Educational Leadership at the University of Rochester. While at Rochester, Dr. Wall also served as the Higher Education Program Director and interim co-director of the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform.
Alongside his leadership achievements, Wall’s teaching and scholarship has earned him numerous accolades, including Rochester’s 2010 G. Graydon ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a non-tenured Member of the Faculty and being named a 2008 Emerging Scholar by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). His research and scholarship interests span the educational spectrum and have included examining K-12 school finance, teacher preparation, and student health and learning, along with assessment and evaluation in education.
Dr. Wall is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles as well as the co-author of two books, Assessment Reconsidered and Case studies in higher education leadership and management: An instructional tool.
Dr. Wall received his PhD in Education, Organization, and Leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in Academic and Student Affairs from Ball State University.
He lives in Newport, Minnesota with his wife, who is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. Outside of work, Andrew builds homemade furniture, volunteers with Minneapolis youth, and enjoys cycling and cross country skiing with his wife and two grown children.
Madeline Wall
Madeline Wall (she/her) is a writer, editor, theatre artist, and aspiring leader in the arts & nonprofit sector. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she received the 2019 Michael Swifta Award for Leadership and 2019 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant for Making the Makers: Conceptualizations & Representations of the Pregnant Body in Shakespeare’s World.
Madeline has held teaching positions at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and in the Theatre Arts and History departments at the University of Minnesota. She has been a freelance editor for academic journal articles and dissertations since 2017, and she is also a freelance stage actor, director, and playwright. Madeline produces theatre through The Birth Play Project (@birthplayproject), and her article on the Project, Placing Birth in Public Memory, was published in the May 2022 issue of the Minnesota Women’s Press.
Madeline’s future aspirations include academic research and both leading and supporting positions in the arts and reproductive justice advocacy.
She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Outside of work, she enjoys endurance athletics and outdoor adventuring with her family and friends.
