
Sean Holleran
Chief Executive Officer
Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Dynamic and driven Chief Executive Officer with comprehensive accomplishments fundraising, leading change management initiatives, strategic planning, operations, human resources and cross-functional teams to ensure success and achieve goals. Known as an innovative thinker with strong youth development, national service, fundraising and relationship management acumen. Demonstrated success developing and seamlessly executing plans in complex nonprofit organizations. Recognized for maximizing performance by implementing appropriate strategies through analysis of details and data to gain understanding of the competitive position, emerging issues, trends and relationships. Highly organized, creative problem solver who excels at leading and motivating teams through challenging projects. Expertise includes developing and managing multimillion-dollar operating budgets, fundraising campaigns and advising C-level executives.
Accomplishments:
• Took organization from $6M in the red to annual revenues of $190M.
• Developed and managed $121M+ national budget.
• Managed process for securing $64M+ in federal funding.
• Managed transformation of human resources capacity to ensure recruitment, engagement and development of 1K employees.
• Created and implemented performance management dashboard.
• Mentored over 100 current employees.
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18-Jun-2025