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Crisis Management for Third Sector Leaders

Training Session

11/09/2025

Crisis Management for Third Sector Leaders

As a CEO, senior leader or Trustee, your reputation isn’t just about you—it’s about your organisation’s success. A good reputation builds trust and confidence, making it easier to achieve your goals. But in the fast-paced third sector, where public perception can make or break initiatives, mastering reputation and crisis management is crucial.

What You’ll Learn: This masterclass is all about helping third sector leaders like you understand, build, and protect your reputation. We’ll cover everything from assessing your current reputation to handling crisis situations with confidence.

Key Topics:

  1. Knowing Your Reputation: Learn how to check your reputation online and see what people are saying about you. We’ll show you how to use social media and other tools to keep track of your image.
  2. Building a Good Reputation: Discover how to make yourself look good in the eyes of the public. We’ll talk about personal branding, using social media wisely, and even how to handle interviews with the media.
  3. Keeping Your Reputation Strong: Find out how to maintain trust with the people who matter most to your organisation. We’ll also cover what to do if something goes wrong and you find yourself in a crisis.

What You’ll Get: You’ll leave with practical tips you can put into action right away, plus a workbook to help you stay on track.

Don’t let your reputation take a back seat. Join us for a practical, hands-on masterclass that will help you become a better leader and keep your organisation moving forward.

Who is it for?

CEO, Senior Leaders, Trustees, Interim Executive

Date: 11/09/2025

Time: 11:30AM - 2:00PM

Venue: CO3 Office, Belfast

Member Price: 149

Non-member Price: 248

This session will be facilitated by…

Brendan Mulgrew

MW Advocate

MW Advocate

Brendan Scott

MW Advocate

What Members Say About CO3

We’re delighted to get behind the financial resilience programme who, which will support a range of charity leaders from the small right through to the large, will really help give them the skills to be strong and be there for their communities for as long as they’re needed.

As a chief executive it is a very lonely job at times, particularly in small charities and Northern Ireland has got many small charities. So when you feel that loneliness or isolation, the one thing that CO3 brought was the ability to go and chat to somebody, whether it be a mentor or whether it be just another chief exec to bounce off.

Kate Fleck
Member of the Board, OCN NI

CO3 offer a wide range of courses for middle, middle managers, senior managers and chief executives within the third sector. Some of the programmes include the Leading Edge programme, there’s other leadership programmes available and then they also offer some micro learning sessions around how to present things like finances to your board of directors, reviewing your governance structure within the organisation and they would bring in some expert facilitators to deliver those sessions as well.

Martin Flynn
CEO, OCN NI

We’re delighted to get behind the financial resilience programme who, which will support a range of charity leaders from the small right through to the large, will really help give them the skills to be strong and be there for their communities for as long as they’re needed.

As a chief executive it is a very lonely job at times, particularly in small charities and Northern Ireland has got many small charities. So when you feel that loneliness or isolation, the one thing that Co Three brought was the ability to go and chat to somebody, whether it be a mentor or whether it be just another chief exec to bounce off.

Kate Fleck
Member of the Board, OCN NI

“CO3 is always a great network for support, for encouragement, for advice, answers to tricky questions when you're really, really stuck. Overall, it's been a fantastic network of colleagues who are always there for guidance and encouragement whenever things are really tough.”

Karen Collins
Chief Executive, Aware NI

“It is so valuable having other people who are in a similar position that you can network with, you can share problems with, you can ask advice. And so my whole career, CO3 has been really, really important to me in providing those things.”

Roger Courtney
Founder & Director, Roger Courtney Consulting

“I think for me the CO3 is a safe space just to have a chat, to make connections and also to learn from other people who are in a similar position in their career as you are.”

Lisa Keys
Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Boys’ Brigade