Leadership Coaching & Training for Canadian Nonprofits
Strengthening your people strengthens your organization.
Working with our Global Senior Consultant was an invaluable experience for our team. She provided thoughtful, comprehensive training for one of our staff members who is new to both our organization and the role of Legacy Giving Officer. This has set our staff member up for success, equipping her with the knowledge and confidence to grow our legacy program and identify key areas for improvement.
When you invest in your people, you strengthen the foundation of your entire mission.
Fundraising succeeds when the people doing the work feel confident, equipped, and supported. Whether your team is building skills, navigating complex leadership shifts, or stepping into new responsibility, the right kind of coaching or training is truly transformative! Not only for performance, but in terms of clarity, collaboration, and confidence.
Global helps nonprofit professionals at every level grow in ways that uplift your whole organization. We bring decades of nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and board experience. Paired with accredited coaching approaches and flexible programs, we’re here to help your people thrive. Organizations that work with us typically see:
- More confident fundraisers and leaders who know what to do and how to move forward.
- Stronger team alignment because your people share a clearer language, plan, and direction.
- Improved donor engagement and results as staff apply best practices with confidence.
- Better internal communication and reduced conflict for a more equitable and cohesive culture.
- More independence and less consultant reliance (Yes, we celebrate when your staff can “do more on their own”!)
- Leaders who feel supported rather than alone in new or complex roles.
Above all: Your organization becomes a place where people are supported to learn, grow, and lead.
Training: Skill-building for fundraisers, Boards & teams
Our training is practical, highly customized, and rooted in real nonprofit experience. Sessions can be delivered as two-hour workshops, multi-session series, or one-on-one training for staff stepping into new roles. Topics include:
- Major gifts fundamentals (for staff or boards)
- Effective face-to-face solicitation
- How to create an annual fundraising plan
- Moves Management
- Fundraising analytics: how to actually use your data
- Legacy giving program essentials
- Fundraising communications best practices
Senior Consultant Certifications Include
Strategic Coaching: focused on the work and the role
Our coaching is grounded in the realities of nonprofit fundraising and leadership.
We blend reflective questions with practical, nonprofit-specific guidance. Deepen judgement, capacity, and strategic thinking as we support your team through big-picture challenges such as:
- Prioritizing work in small shops
- Managing donor relationships
- Understanding governance dynamics
- Planning and pacing major gift work
Executive Coaching: Leadership transformation for nonprofit executives
Executive coaching is especially powerful for new executives, directors, or emerging senior leaders. These individuals often come to us because they feel alone in their decision-making or feel unsure how to “show up” at their new level. And because we’ve sat in those same seats ourselves, we understand the pressure, and are ready to support leaders through it.
Our accredited executive coaches have deep lived experience in the nonprofit sector to help leaders:
- Transition with confidence into their new role in a confidential, neutral space.
- Navigate new-to-them dynamics such as fundraising, Board expectations, or staffing.
- Build leadership resilience with confidence and grace in high-pressure environments.
Advisory & Counsel: On-call expertise, guidance and trusted thought partnership
Access practical advice, clear answers to complex questions, and support navigating immediate challenges. Pair this with your Training, or request it as a stand-alone service when you need:
- A trusted sounding board for day-to-day decisions.
- Guidance on gift strategies, staffing, budgeting, or planning.
- Support navigating HR, team, or board challenges.
- Someone who understands your organization’s culture and history.
Organizations often hesitate before seeking support because:
- “It feels vulnerable to ask for help.”
The reality: many leaders cannot confide in staff or their board. Coaching provides a protected and confidential space to explore solutions, failures, and everything in-between. - “We can put a training or mentoring program together internally.”
While these intentions are good, it often results in partial training. Where multiple team members are supporting off the side of their desk, and staff still lack the full picture. - “We don’t want to become dependent on consultants.”
We agree! Our aim is to build independence, not reliance, with your staff. - “We don’t have time.”
Our engagements flex around your schedule, from one-off workshops to six-month coaching.
But investing in your team always pays off:
Your people are your most important asset. When you invest in them, everything else grows. Whether through training, coaching, or advisory support, organizations see tangible change:
- Staff feel valued and supported.
- New hires ramp up faster.
- Leaders make decisions with clarity—not fear.
- Teams function with more confidence and alignment.
- Fundraising becomes more intentional, strategic, and successful.
Sector-Rooted. Regionally Informed. Executive-Led.
In fundraising has been collectively raised by our team of 44 Senior Consultants
of our Senior Consultants have served as a volunteer on a Board of Directors, and over 76% currently volunteer their time with a nonprofit organization.
organizations large and small from coast to coast to coast, with over 61% returning as clients in 2025.
Our team includes former nonprofit executives, fundraisers, and capital campaign leaders from organizations of every size. As accessibility is part of our service model, you can engage us for a single service, ongoing advisory, or a multi-phased project. Whatever your capacity and budget, we are here to support. We bring:
- Decades of frontline and executive nonprofit leadership: Our senior consultants have an average of 30+ years in director, senior director, and CEO-level roles. They’ve led teams, run major campaigns, and navigated real organizational and board complexity.
- Accredited, ethical executive coaches: Our coaching team includes ICF-accredited individuals. They've been through rigorous training, ongoing education, and bring with them a strong code of ethics.
- A cross-Canada team of specialists: Legacy giving major gifts, analytics, annual planning, board governance: no matter the scenario, we match you with the right specialist and pull in others as required.
Leadership Coaching & Training Client Praise
“Working with our Global Senior Consultant was an invaluable experience for our team. She provided thoughtful, comprehensive training for one of our staff members who is new to both our organization and the role of Legacy Giving Officer. Her guidance laid a strong foundation to this staff member’s role. Global helped to clarify what legacy giving is and what makes it unique as well as share the psychology behind legacy donors and effective strategies for engaging them. Because she also helped build our organization’s legacy program years ago, she was able to offer deep insight into our structure, opportunities, and future direction.
This training has set our staff member up for success, equipping her with the knowledge and confidence to grow our legacy program and identify key areas for improvement. We’re incredibly grateful for the expertise the Global team brought to this process, and we highly recommend them to any organization looking to strengthen their legacy giving program.”
“Global was with us the whole way. They helped us initiate a chart of standards. Right from the get-go, they are part of that foundation and provided that leadership and those friendly reminders that it was about the numbers from the metrics perspective but, of course, it was the mission of our work that was driving that success. Global really did help us think bigger.”
