You were never supposed to carry this alone.
Coalition work is heavy — the late-night emails, the partners who go quiet, the funders who want a report and don't want to hear what it actually took. There's a way through, and a small group of people who've walked it. Meet them.
A keynote or breakout from a founding COS Guide — for coalition summits, funder convenings, and prevention conferences.
Conference organizers, state associations, funders
Learn MoreA multi-session implementation series that walks your coalition team through the six components of COS together.
Coalition leadership teams ready to build shared infrastructure
Learn More1:1 or small-group coaching for coordinators putting COS into practice — a steady thinking partner between the hard weeks.
Coordinators and directors, especially in their first five years
Learn MoreDave Closson keeps a limited keynote calendar each year.
If your event is built around the founder of COS, book him directly. Otherwise, any of our founding guides can bring COS to your room.
Six founding COS Guides. All practitioners first.
Each one has coordinated, trained, or coached inside coalitions long enough to know what actually helps — and what just adds another meeting to the calendar.
Meet the Founding Guides