Join
Our Email List
I recently referred a colleague to your website and I thought I would drop you a note to tell you how much I enjoyed your workshop on strategic planning at the NeighborWorks conference in December. It has fundamentally changed the way I think about this issue. Many thanks for making the time to share this information with agencies like ours.
— Denise Matyka,Executive Director, Project Home
About Robert M. Sheehan, Jr., PhD
With
more than 30
years of executive management experience, including 18 years as the CEO
of two different national nonprofits, Rob uniquely blends
in-the-trenches experience with extensive academic research. To the
non-profit world, he brings a practical perspective on strategy while
applying cutting-edge concepts—such as strategic intent and
systems thinking—that are used primarily in the corporate
world.
As Principal of Sheehan Nonprofit Consulting, Rob provides consulting services in strategy development and implementation, leadership and teamwork development, board development, and succession planning for nonprofits and government entities.
He also serves as Academic Director of the Executive MBA program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland-College Park. He has directed custom-designed executive education programs through the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, both at the University of Maryland-College Park.
He received his PhD from The Ohio State University, where he directed The Excellence in Philanthropy research project, which became the basis for his dissertation “Mission Accomplishment as Philanthropic Organization Effectiveness.”
Rob has been an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (formerly National Society of Fund Raising Executives) since 1986, when he attained the association’s CFRE designation. He has served as President of the Central Ohio and East Central Illinois Chapters of AFP, and is currently a member of the Washington DC Metro Area and Maryland Chapters of AFP. He is an active member of ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) and the Academy of Management. He has been published in both leading nonprofit research journals: Nonprofit and Management Leadership and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Rob has been an active volunteer and donor for a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of LeaderShape, Inc.