Global Evaluation & Applied Research Solutions (GEARS), Inc. is a management consulting firm founded in 2002. GEARS has offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Lanham, Maryland. GEARS provides a host of related management consulting services including: staffing, program evaluation, applied research, strategic planning, technical assistance, executive coaching, focus group research, organizational development, employee assessments, meeting facilitation, conference and meeting planning, materials development and dissemination (including one-pagers, toolkits and manuals), grantee assistance, data management and warehousing, application design and development, database development, and website design.
GEARS works with local and commercial businesses, foundations, non-profit and community-based organizations, and federal government agencies including the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the US Department of Education, the US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).