Jenni Hargrove is the Founder of Nonprofit Jenni. She provides coaching to nonprofit leaders looking to improve their engagement of supporters like donors, corporate sponsors, volunteers, and more. Jenni also hosts the Nonprofit Jenni Show, available for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.
Devon Montgomery Pasha, CMP, CED is a passionate events professional, designer, and instructor. She currently serves as the Director of North America for the Event Design Collective, specializing in event design education and training in the United States and Canada. A believer in purposeful and mission driven events, Devon leverages design thinking and empathy driven systems to design events that maximize impact.
Laurie Hochman has a passion for helping groups exceed their fundraising goals. After using Auctria for many auction fundraisers, she joined the team to help others boost their auction fundraising for many wonderful causes. Auctria has been utilized in over 45,000 event fundraisers raising over $500M. “The beauty in what is done with the money raised with Auctria is what motivates me every day to help auction teams succeed. Hope all your bids soar!”
Neeraj Garg is the Chief Operating Officer at Aplusify. For 20 years, he has worked alongside a multitalented team to help associations and nonprofits drive digital transformation within their organization, enabling them to be more innovative, agile, and donor/member-centric. As Aplusify’s COO, he leads an internal task force that shares lessons learned, best practices, and practical applications that specifically relate to associations and nonprofits.
Melinda Starkweather is the Founder of Starkweather Association Services. She has extensive background in communications and information technology and has served on state and US congressional campaigns. She developed Starkweather’s Cirrus Change Readiness toolset and protocol. She focuses on creating organizations that thrive in change. Melinda has been certified in change management since 2010, and coordinates the change management initiative.
Thomas McClintock is the Senior Client Services Manager at Empowered Margins, Inc. He uses his 30 years of martech, communication and business development expertise to take digital marketing and automation to new heights. Tom founded and ran several firms including three marketing agencies, a venture-backed content aggregator and an international trading house. Tom knows how to use the right data to find the right audience at the right time. He particularly enjoys crafting targeted messages for fast-growth tech companies like Empowered Margins because of their vision and ability to elevate and transform whole industries. When not marketing, you can often find Tom with his wife and son in Colorado Springs, Colorado where they divide their off hours between movies, sci-fi, games, the outdoors and volunteer work for at-risk youth.
Michael Hoffman is the co-founder and CEO of Gather Voices, a technology company that automates the creation, management, and publishing of video content. He is also the founder of See3 Communications, a digital marketing agency in Chicago, and the founder of the DoGooder Video Awards which honors the best social cause video on YouTube each year. Hoffman teaches marketing at the University of Chicago and is an internationally sought-after speaker and trainer who is a trusted advisor to association leaders on engagement strategy.
Felicia is a senior leader at We Know Training specializing in partnerships, strategy, operations, and shared service delivery. She leads the organization’s partnership model by delivering vision, leadership, and strategic oversight to our platform partners. Felicia works closely with leaders in associations, regulators, and non-profits to help them deliver best-in-class training programs that maximize non-membership revenue. Her impressive cross-functional experience in strategy and operations helps her improve agility and drive growth.
Jordana is the CEO and Co-Founder of webcastcloud, a video hosting and monetization platform purpose-built for Associations delivering Events and Education, to empower them to drive non-dues revenue and membership value through a centralized and streamlined online content delivery platform.
P. Joanne has served in senior executive and CEO roles with national associations and foundations in orthopedic research (OREF), urgent care (UCAOA), cardiac and pulmonary rehab (AACVPR), restaurant and food management (NRAEF), GI endoscopy (ASGE), emergency nursing (ENA), and veterinary medicine (AVMF). Key expertise includes major gift, capital and planned giving campaigns, feasibility studies, corporate sponsorship, volunteer training, institutional accreditation, marketing, scholarship and medical grants programs, strategic planning, and relationship management. Joanne is a graduate of Valparaiso University and is a member of AFP, ASAE, Association Forum, AAMSE, Chicago Council on Planned Giving, and AFG. Previous nonprofit work included hospital development and capital campaigns and theater development and production management.
