Join a helicopter talk to explore the terrain of systems- and complexity-informed evaluation. The terrain includes systems and complexity science applications to program evaluation and policy analysis, as well as ways to evaluate systems change. We’ll use an evaluation planning tool to guide our journey and as a future reference. The tool covers evaluation purposes, questions, and methods. Purposes include accountability (internal vs. external), learning (type and level), and adaptation (improvement vs. innovation vs. adaptation). Focal questions address (a) the situation or system, (b) the change process, (c) outcomes and impacts, (d) future scenarios, and (e) value synthesis. There are multiple method options for each question. We’ll spotlight one per question: rich pictures, actor-based theory of change, most significant change, scenario matrix, and evaluative rubrics. Attendees will gain a big-picture view of systems evaluation to show possibilities and resources, setting them up to get started or dive deeper.