Seth Turner

About Seth Turner

Advocacy and government relations expert, consultant, and trainer with a rare combination of experience working for national nonprofits and associations coupled with a passion for using data to help new advocates build influential relationships with policymakers.Expertise and Specialties: Consulting with and advising professional advocates to overcome common challenges that prevent constituents from building influential relationships with their elected representatives.Interacting with, training, and inspiring \"constituent advocates\" to build influential relationships with policy makers by using proven-effective advocacy strategies.Using and customizing CRMs (Salesforce) to recruit grassroots advocates and track and encourage their development into influential \"grasstops\" leaders.Effective leader, systems thinker, strategic planner, supervisor, and manager.Excellent technical writing, editing, and research skills.Flexible team leader, utility player and problem solver who excels in deadline-driven work environments.

Experience

1. Faculty

   Congressional Management Foundation

   Dec 2021 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Conducted more than 200 training programs involving more that participants since 2016.

Education

• University of Delaware

  National Student Exchange Program Participant

  1990 — 1992

• California State University, Chico

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Policy Analysis
• Politics
• Legislative Relations
• Program Development
• Public Policy
• Microsoft Office
• Non-Profits
• Public Speaking
• Leadership
• Grants
• Program Management
• Legislation
• Research
• Fundraising
• Policy
• Workforce Development
• Program Evaluation
• Pagemaker
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Leadership Development
• Training
• Volunteer Management
• Event Planning
• Editing
• Technical Writing
• Government
• Nonprofits