Intentional Leadership. Bold Results. Coaching for the Purpose-Driven Nonprofit Executive
You’ve done the hard work to get here—scored the promotion, navigated the messy middle, made the impossible decisions, held your team together through storms. But what if your next chapter could feel more clear, more aligned, more intentional?
I’m here to help you identify and embody your brilliance as a leader.
Executive coaching is your invitation to lead with clarity, not just urgency. To make decisions from your values, not just your to-do list. To finally have a space where you’re not holding it all together for everyone else—but building the kind of leadership that fuels you.
This is support for the real work:
→ The stretch between where you are and where your heart wants to be.
→ The vision you’ve had for your team—but haven’t had time to bring to life.
→ The bold outcomes you know are possible, if only you had the right partner in your corner.
Let’s build the kind of leadership that feels authentic, grounded, and intentional. As a former C-Suite leader who has seen it all, I’m here to bring coaching expertise + lived experience to help you be the leader that makes you feel proud when you wake up in the morning.
Coaching Designed for Impact
Through one-on-one coaching, I help nonprofit executives:
- Lead from their values (not just their to-do list)
- Build strong, high-retention teams
- Strengthen relationships with colleagues + superiors (…and navigate politics)
- Craft bold fundraising strategies that drive results
- Shift culture and lead change with clarity
- Develop healthier leadership habits + communication styles
- Navigate intense personnel and interpersonal challenges
- Restructure their department + define roles to create stronger outcomes
- Support their staff through change and coach them to grow
- Invest in their health and wellbeing
Why Invest in Executive Coaching?
Executive coaching is a powerful strategy to strengthen your organization from the inside out. When leaders are supported, they lead with more clarity, confidence, and strategy—and that ripple effect touches everything: fundraising, team morale, board relationships, organizational culture, and long-term impact.
Coaching gives nonprofit executives space to think, reflect, and grow—with a trusted partner who understands the real challenges of this work:
- Make tough decisions with clarity
- Communicate with confidence across every level
- Build strong, high-functioning teams that retain
- Navigate change and uncertainty with care and intention
- Channel their leadership to achieve bold outcomes
The truth? You can’t afford not to invest in your leaders. Burnout is expensive. Dysfunction is costly. High turnover slows everything down. But a grounded, growth-minded leader? That’s your organization’s greatest asset.
This is for new directors leading a department for the first time, seasoned leaders navigating change, and any nonprofit exec who’s ready to lead with more confidence, courage, and clarity.
Spots are limited. If this sounds like the support you or your team need, reach out today.
Why Me?
With two decades of executive experience in the nonprofit sector, I bring a rare blend of strategic vision, fundraising expertise, and people-centered leadership to my executive coaching. I’ve built four development teams from the ground up, doubled annual revenue in under a year, and secured six-to-eight-figure gifts across individual, institutional, and corporate giving.
As a former C-suite leader, I’ve successfully guided organizations through moments of profound change—CEO exits, mergers, scaling up/down, funding crises, layoffs, pay equity work, and board transitions. I’ve led with clarity during times of chaos and created a steady foundation for my teams to thrive. I’ve truly seen it all! My coaching is rooted in lived experience: I know what it’s like to sit at the executive table and lead through complexity, ambiguity, and opportunity.
I’m also a known thought leader who presents at conferences, teaches workshops, and speaks on podcasts about healthy leadership models, modern staff retention techniques, effective hiring techniques, and innovative development and communications strategies. Whether you’re navigating leadership transitions or building toward bold new goals, I help you show up with purpose, strategy, and a leadership style that’s built to last.
What You Get
This is personalized, private executive coaching grounded in your day-to-day reality. You’ll walk away with:
- Clear-eyed strategies for managing up, down, and across
- Tools to navigate tough conversations with confidence
- A values-based leadership model that guides through challenging situations
- A trusted coach who can hold space for the personal + political dynamics of leadership
- New ways to lead with clarity, compassion, and intention
My coaching blends real talk and deep strategy. We begin coaching with a thoughtful assessment + exploratory call that lays the foundation for our coaching sessions. Then we dig into all of the complex situations you deal with each week.
Coaching packages typically range from 6 months to 1 year. We meet as little as once a month—or as much as every week. You choose the cadence.
Plus: access to my network of experts, tools, and resources tailored to your leadership growth.
What Clients Say:
“Shannon taught me to be more assertive and confident. She helped me develop and expand my skills, which helped me believe in myself, push myself out of my comfort zone, and grow my career.”
— A.
“Shannon is compassionate and direct. She genuinely wants you to be successful.
I truly appreciated having her in my corner.”
— L.
“I was in a toxic workplace environment and she was an anchor and a bright light. She helped me realize my worth and move on from a stuck place. Working with Shannon changed my career (and life) for the better.”
— K.
Frequently Asked Questions
• Managing up and across with senior leaders or boards
• Team building, personnel issues, department restructuring, and staff retention
• Fundraising strategy and communications tactics
• Change management and crisis leadership
• Navigating burnout, imposter feelings, or uncertainty
• Strengthening your leadership voice and executive presence
You bring the complex situations. I bring strategy, structure, and support.
Ready to Lead with Intention?
If you’re ready to step into the kind of leadership that feels bold, grounded, and 100% yours…I’m here for you. Coaching is your runway—not just to healthier, values-aligned leadership, but to the version of yourself who leads with clarity, builds with purpose, and creates the kind of impact you once only dreamed of.
