Executive Director Training
Learn to confidently run any nonprofit so you can raise more, earn more, and build a board that’s on your side and off your back.
PREMIUM PAID COURSE
Executive Director Boot Camp
Nonprofit leaders feel like they have been dropped in the deep end with no support, training or onboarding.
Running a nonprofit organization is an amazing opportunity but it can also be filled with isolation, imposter syndrome and confusion.
Executive Director Boot Camp is designed by a successful five-time nonprofit Executive Director exclusively for Executive Directors like you.
This course can help any ED but is mostly designed for those on the job less than three years or those looking to become an ED. The course is designed to help you:
Master the 10 key areas of nonprofit management, including what matters and what doesn’t — so you can save your sanity.
Save time and frustration with access to a wealth of world-class tools, checklists, sample policies, templates, contracts, and more.
Learn to protect your career and your salary — while still making a difference in the world.
Build your confidence and resilience, and feel less alone as a nonprofit Executive Director.
Walk away with a step-by-step roadmap for running any nonprofit.
And much, much more…
FREE On-Demand Training
Executive Director MasterClass
FREE WEBINAR Training: Executive Director MasterClass
3 Expert Strategies to Slay Your Doubts, Boost Your Confidence and Career
Ready to take your leadership to the next level?
Learn how to crush imposter syndrome and isolation with a mindset makeover. Use our proven strategies to find and build a network of nonprofit leaders who will have your back.
You’ll also get expert tips to advance your career while avoiding rookie mistakes.
FREE On-Demand Training
Media Skills Crash Course for Nonprofits
Tell Your Story, Build Your Brand, Magnify Your Impact
Reach Millions Through Earned Media with These Essential Tips.
Being able to tell your organization’s story with quick soundbites or smart visuals can be the difference between “speaking to the choir” or having a national audience. The skills you develop talking to reporters will also transform your fundraising and your confidence.
With our nonprofit media skills training you’ll learn to:
Practice and develop an effective message
Build a press kit
Write news releases, news advisories, and Op-Eds
Work confidently with print and broadcast reporters
Build and maintain a media contact list
Get free media coverage for your organization
Handle tough questions and plan media events
FREE On-Demand Training
How to Implement a 4-Day Workweek
More Balance - Less Burnout
Burnout is endemic in the nonprofit sector. We’re all working long hours for little pay. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
As nonprofit Executive Directors, you can have the same workload and pay, with fewer hours... and I'll show you how.
This training will help you:
Save money by shutting down the office one day a week
Build goodwill and loyalty from your staff
Learn creative ways to get more work into fewer hours without the burnout
Retain your best people and attract better and more future employees
Maintain high productivity, even with fewer work hours
FREE On-Demand Training
Top 10 Responsibilities of a Nonprofit Executive Director
Master these 10 areas and you can run any nonprofit.
A nonprofit executive director is responsible for 10 areas, and this training will show you what to focus on, so you can make the most of your impact!
After this training, you will:
Know exactly what 10 areas to focus on in your job as a nonprofit ED
Be able to ask questions live of a 5x ED who has seen it ALL
Understand how all the 10 areas are connected to run a nonprofit
Understand key terminology
Better understand the division of labor between the board, the ED and others
FREE On-Demand Training
25+ Tips for More Pay and Less Stress for Executive Directors
Nonprofit leadership shouldn’t leave you broke and burned out.
Many of us believe we shouldn’t make a good salary or anything close to what the private sector makes as a nonprofit leader… but it’s all about priorities!
In this training, I’ll show you 25+ ways that you can increase your pay, protect your career, and reduce your stress - so you can:
Identify things you can do now to protect your reputation, job, and career
Take control of your day, schedule, workload, and job description
Use the organization's budget to lead with people-first values
Shift your mindset about what it means to work "nonprofit"
Stand in your power and confidence about the value you deliver and what compensation should come with
See that an employment contract helps everyone in the organization
And so much more!
FREE On-Demand Training
Become Fireproof: Learn How to Negotiate Your Nonprofit Salary, Severance, and Sanity
Demand respect from your board and protect your career, reputation, and family!
In this training, I am pulling back the curtain on worker protections and working to change the sector in favor of nonprofit workers! Learn what elite nonprofit leaders already know in this packed power training!
Stop worrying that rogue board members can end your career (or even take your job). Become FIREPROOF with protections private sector executives have had for years.
Take charge of your career and confidence, learn to lean in, and LOVE your career as a nonprofit leader.
It’s time we demand better for nonprofit leaders so we can thrive in jobs that make the world better instead of pulling our hair out and stressing to make ends meet.
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- Taryn Gal | Managing Director, Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health
“ED Boot Camp has provided greatly needed clarity to the rarely clear-cut and oftentimes ambiguous ever-changing responsibilities of an ED of a nonprofit. Sean is able to lay out these responsibilities in a manner that is honest, straightforward, and engaging. Sean invites you into the conversation and leaves you feeling competent and ready.”
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- Sue Samaniego | Director of Foundation, Colorado Northwestern Community College
“The ED Boot Camp gave me confidence that I am on top of all of the various areas of compliance and reporting that I am responsible for. I truly appreciated the straightforward content that obviously comes from years of experience in the field.”
Customized Leadership Training and Coaching
Crisis Communications: Prevent a Challenge to Your Organization’s Reputation
Is your organization ready for a public challenge to your reputation?
We have seen that a lie can make its way halfway around the world while the truth is still tying its shoelaces. What would happen tomorrow if true or untrue information was all over the news and social media…tomorrow? Would your donors and stakeholders stand by you?
Fact-checking in newsrooms has taken a back seat to “clickbait.” How can you weather that storm? Better yet, how can you prevent a crisis in the first place? Learn how to prevent a media crisis and how to protect your organization’s reputation and revenue.
Email me to learn more about this training sean[at]nonprofitfixer.com.
Success Stories
"Sean's new Executive Director BootCamp course is the perfect solution for anyone who is looking for a comprehensive course to help them hit the ground running successfully as an Executive Director. I only wish this course was made 5 years ago when I was a new ED, as it would have helped me navigate my time more skillfully as a new ED."
- Michael Faith | Former Executive Director & Professional Fundraiser
"Sean knows his stuff and it's obvious it comes from years of experience. However, you can't be trained to have empathy or care - you just have it, or you don't. And you do. So when I saw that Sean was listening to me, truly listening and the coaching/advice was coming from a good place of caring - that's when I knew I had made the right choice and was getting real value."
- Lyda S. | Executive Director, Green Teams of Canada