Senior counsel from someone who has built, led, advised, and carried mission responsibility.

Ed has spent his career building and leading organizations while advising institutional leaders through moments of growth, transition, identity, fundraising, communications, and change. He has led agencies, grown teams, served colleges and universities across the country, worked with presidents and boards, and helped institutions clarify how they are understood, supported, and trusted.

He later brought that experience directly into nonprofit executive leadership as Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer of Buffalo Audubon Society and Trillium Nature Center, where strategy had to become execution — across governance, staff, facilities, philanthropy, conservation partnerships, membership, communications, and community trust.

Sirianno & Associates brings those experiences together for organizations facing important questions about what comes next.

That means strategy must be usable. Leadership must be supported. Boards must understand their role. Fundraising must be built on confidence and belief. Communications must help people feel and understand the mission. And organizational decisions should strengthen the people, places, and communities the mission exists to serve.

Edward J. Sirianno — Founder & Principal Consultant

Edward J. Sirianno has spent his career building, leading, advising, and strengthening organizations.

He began leading organizations early in his career, first building a regional communications agency in Western New York and later founding and leading a larger nonprofit-focused and higher-education agency serving colleges, universities, and mission-driven institutions across the country.

In that work, Ed partnered with presidents, boards, administrators, faculty, advancement leaders, and enrollment teams on questions that were never simply about marketing. They were questions about institutional identity, audience trust, enrollment growth, alumni engagement, philanthropy, academic vision, public reputation, and organizational strength.

After decades of agency and institutional advisory leadership, Ed brought that experience into direct nonprofit executive service at Buffalo Audubon Society and Trillium Nature Center. There, he carried responsibility for a public nature center, more than 1,100 acres of preserves, staff, facilities, education programming, membership, fundraising, conservation partnerships, communications, and board support — and raised or helped secure more than $2.5 million in public and private support.

That experience deepened his belief that strong missions require strong organizations — and that good counsel should help leaders become clearer, more confident, and better prepared to act.

Today, through Sirianno & Associates, Ed works with nature-based, conservation, health, and human-services organizations facing important moments of planning, leadership, transition, fundraising, communications, and growth.

He holds an MA in Integrated Marketing Communications from St. Bonaventure University and a BA in English and Education from St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he serves on the Foundation Board. He lives and works in East Aurora, New York, and the practice serves organizations nationwide.