8th international EFJCA Conference | 30 November & 1 December 2026 | Portlaoise (Ireland)

Bio Sean Cooke

Seán Cooke is the Chief Executive Officer of the Men’s Development Network (MDN)and has been since October 2018. MDN is a developmental organisation working with and engaging men and boys on their health, wellbeing, gender equality and ending gender-based violence. Sean has over 30 years’ experience working in Community and Voluntary sector in Ireland, both at front line and senior management level. Previous experiences include working in Youth and Community programmes in some of the most disadvantage communities in Ireland.

Sean is passionate on communicating the transformational model to engaging men and boys ensuring an invitational and a strengths-based approach is applied.