Senior counsel from someone who has held the executive seat.

Edward Sirianno is a mission-driven executive and advisor whose work spans nonprofit leadership, governance, fundraising, strategic planning, conservation, institutional growth, communications, and public engagement. He has led an organization from inside the executive seat and advised institutions from outside it — and the practice is built on the combination.

From 2020 through 2026 he served as Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer of the Buffalo Audubon Society and Trillium Nature Center. The role carried the full range of responsibility familiar to leaders of nature-centered organizations: a public nature center and its visitors, more than 1,100 acres of preserves and the stewardship they require, education programming, membership, philanthropy, staffing, facilities, board partnership, and the community relationships that make conservation work possible.

During that tenure he raised or helped secure more than $2.5 million in public and private support, advanced accessible nature access and trail improvements, developed habitat and conservation partnerships connected to the Niagara River corridor, strengthened board practice, and led rebranding and communications work that grew membership and donor participation.

Earlier, from 2005 to 2019, he was Founder, President, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer of Creative Communication Associates. Over fifteen years the firm advised more than 100 colleges, universities, and mission-driven institutions on positioning, brand, and the communications that connect institutions to the people whose support they need. That work built an unusual fluency in how audiences form impressions of institutions — and how quickly a well-run organization can lose that ground through inconsistency.

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 as a member of the Foundation Board. He lives and works in East Aurora, New York.

Sirianno & Associates exists because many nature-centered organizations cannot justify a full-time strategist, a governance specialist, a campaign counsel, and a search consultant — yet they face exactly those questions. The firm provides that senior capacity when it is needed, at a scale that fits the organization.