Ms. Cardellino has extensive experience engaging volunteers and community forces for good. From the arena to the C-suite , she has expertise with a broad range of management, organization, and program development skills. She is called upon frequently to serve as a volunteer engagement pundit, coach, trainer, speaker, consultant, conservator, innovator, and conscience. Her current focus is strengthening volunteer leadership management and organization structures, from traditional top-down structures to self- governing sociocracies, especially digital visions and strategies.

For more than 13 years Joan managed a California Hospital Association statewide network of hospital volunteer programs reaching 100,000 volunteers. Her responsibilities included production of an annual conference and educational events; staffing the state's Committee on Volunteer Services; creating new products, seminars and/or publications; regular consultations with more than 400 member hospitals; and forming and maintaining strategic alliances, joint ventures and community partnerships at the local/regional/state/national/international levels to advance volunteerism in hospitals. Prior to her work in California, Joan served for 15 years as the director of volunteer resources at Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania; director of training and staff development, director of youth services, and regional branch administrator for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American National Red Cross, and service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia.

Joan holds a BA in sociology from Northeastern University; a graduate business certificate in health care administration and marketing from Temple University; a graduate business certificate in leadership development from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Anderson Executive Education Center, and a certificate in fundraising from the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She has a Certified Administrator of Volunteer Services (CAVS) credential from the Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals (AHVRP), and is an active leader of many professional associations including AL!VE (Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement), DOVIA Sacramento (Directors of Volunteers in Agencies), National Volunteer Caregiving Network, and the National Alliance for Volunteer Engagement.

Dana Litwin, CVA is a transformational coach, strategic advisor, and public speaker with a background in team building, environmental conservation and sustainability. She is known for her Priceless Advice series with tips for Volunteer Leaders.

Since 2002, Dana has guided organizations in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and nationwide to produce breakthrough volunteer and community engagement programs, as well as board and advisory committee development. She served for over eight years as the Volunteer Programs Administrator of the Open Space Authority of Santa Clara Valley, where she produced large scale public events, redesigned volunteer/outreach program policies and procedures, trained volunteers and staff, build partnerships and relationships to further volunteer opportunities and fundraise, and represented the organization at public events and conferences.

Drawing upon 20+ years in improv theater, Dana delivers innovative, humorous and engaging keynote addresses and seminars, in addition to customized training, educational materials and multimedia presentations. Ms. Litwin has a BA in Music and Jazz Studies from Sonoma State University. She is a Certified in Volunteer Administration by the by the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (www.ccva.org) and is an active leader of many professional associations including AL!VE (Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement) where she served as the President of the Board of Directors and the National Alliance for Volunteer Engagement where she serves as a Facilitator.

Jared McCannell, CVA is a career nonprofit and public service professional. His areas of expertise include volunteer management, Public Health Emergency Preparedness and program development. A longtime member of the Association of Leaders In Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE) he has been active in working to advance the profession of volunteer management at home in Maine and across the US for many years. Jared brings a special combination of professional skills and experiences specifically with federal public health volunteer response capabilities, including the Emergency System for the Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP).

Mr. McCannell has served in a number of volunteer management and program development roles including the Volunteer Management Coordinator for both AdCare Educational Institute of Maine and the State of Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine-CDC), Maine State Director of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), and as Program Coordinator for the California Volunteer Infrastructure Project (an AmeriCorps State program). He currently oversees two regional volunteer management professional groups in Maine, the Greater Waterville Area Volunteer Administrators (GWAVA) and the Volunteer Managers of Midcoast Maine (VAMM). Mr. McCannell has consulted on several different volunteer management software packages recently and continues to push the envelope in user experience and expectations from tech companies serving nonprofits and government agencies.

Mr. McCannell is Certified in Volunteer Administration by the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (www.ccva.org) and holds a BA in Spanish from San Diego State University.