Chief Executive Officer, Volunteering Victoria

Scott joined Volunteering Victoria in July 2018. Formerly Chief Executive, Volunteering New Zealand for over 3 years, he brings extensive cross-sector experience in public, private and non-government organisations.

Scott is active internationally, consulting on democracy, civil society and volunteering.

World President, International Association for Volunteer Effort
Chief Executive Officer, Ardoch

Kylee was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ardoch in August 2016 following diverse roles in the human services sphere in the not-for-profit, government and commercial sectors.

Since 2014 Kylee has served as the World President of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), a global membership organisation based in Washington, DC.

Chief Executive Officer, Neighbourhood Houses Victoria

Nicole is an experienced advocate with extensive experience in management and strategic leadership in not-for-profit organisations, government, event management, facilitation, and community engagement.

Nicole is passionate about social justice, gender equality and indigenous rights. 

Chief Executive Officer, VicSport

Lisa joined VicSport with a wealth of industry knowledge and experience, including board positions at across AFL Sports Ready, shooting, athletics and sponsorship marketing.

Most recently Lisa was General Manager, Community and Stakeholder Relations at Basketball Australia.

Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Men's Sheds Association

Derek has recently joined the Victorian Men’s Sheds Association as their new Chief Executive Officer.

A sports and management professional with over 20 years’ experience, Derek has worked in both the commercial and not for profit sectors.

Prior to joining the Men’s Shed, Derek has held previous CEO roles in three Olympic sports, two at State level, and one at National level, and was a director of VicSport. He has a strong understanding of the value of volunteers, and the importance of their contribution in both sport and community organisations. 

Derek is passionate about inclusion, diversity, and increasing support for all our Victorian volunteers.
 

Director Volunteer Services, Bendigo Health
Co-founder and Chair, Leaders of Health Volunteer Engagement (LOHVE) Network

Sharon brings extensive volunteer management experience from over 20 years across Bendigo Health and Cabrini Health.

As Chair of the LOHVE Network, Sharon leads the yearly Benchmarking Survey of volunteers in health services and successfully advocated for the inclusion of volunteer management in the 2018 Statement of Priorities for public healthcare services.

Senior Manager Volunteer Services, Brotherhood of St Laurence
(on secondment from Volunteer Engagement Manager, Austin Health)

Tracey is a social worker and Certified Volunteer Administrator with 19 years’ experience as a leader of volunteer engagement in the not-for-profit, health and government sectors. She has extensive experience in strategic and operational program management and has a keen interest in quality and continuous improvement initiatives.

Tracey is a co-editor of the Voices section of the international online journal ‘Engage; the global voice of leaders of volunteer engagement.’ She is also a recipient of a 2020 Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (Al!ve) Exemplary Leader Impact Award.

Chief Executive Officer, Health Issues Centre

Danny has a background in marketing, communications and public engagement that stretches across a range of sectors including health, environment, local government, telecommunications and consumer goods.

Prior to his current role, he was the Chief Operations Officer and Marketing Director at the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Founder, Good Karma Network

Amy is an experienced innovator, with a long history of working in the training and coaching industry.

She founded the Good Karma Network, which is composed of suburb-specific online communities where members support each other through volunteerism. The model has spread in three states and captured the attention of academics and thought leaders.

Chief Executive Officer, Afri-Aus Care Inc.
Co-founder, Black Rhinos Basketball Club and The Ubuntu Peer-Peer Restorative Family

SelbaGondoza is a Mental Health Clinician, Public Speaker, Family Violence advocate and Grassroot Community Leader.

She is also the Founder and CEO of Afri-Aus Care Inc, a Not-For-Profit Organisation, which provides Culturally Appropriate support services to African Australians and those from other CALD backgrounds.

She is also the Co-Founder of the successful Black Rhinos Basketball Club, a Crime Prevention and Intervention Program for at-risk youth, she has recently Co-Founded a Youth program called the Ubuntu Peer-Peer Restorative Family.

She relates very well that there is a connection between mental illness and the connection of young people who are in the Justice system. She has extensive experience working with African Australian families who are facing resettlement challenges.

Over the years, she has managed to connect with key stakeholders, e.g. Government Bodies, major organisations like ADRA Australia, African Community/Church Leaders, The University of Melbourne, Monash University, Swinburne University, Victoria University a number of Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 9800, etc. She is a Multiple Ward Winner and a Charter Member of Rotary Passport Club of Melbourne.

She has been working as a Task Force Member in a number of Key Government Departments. She believes in The Ubuntu Philosophy and she uses The Positive Change Model when working with at-risk youth and their families. Based on the outcomes of the Crime prevention programs she runs at Afri-Aus Care, The University of Melbourne has now published an article in relation to The Practice of Ubuntu in the justice system. Please click on the link for the full article:
http://go.unimelb.edu.au/u99r

She is currently working on number research and evaluation projects with a number of Faculties at the University of Melbourne.

Inaugural Youth Mayor and Chair Youth Council, Bendigo
Multicultural Youth Commissioner, Victorian Multicultural Commission
Board Member - YMCA Australia, ARC Justice

Khayshie is a passionate advocate for youth, multiculturalism and diverse representation at influential decision-making tables. She is an experienced director, legal advisor and the Multicultural Youth Commissioner of Victoria with an honours degree in law and accreditation in mediation. 

Khayshie has served on a number of boards and committees including Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services, ARCJustice, Ambulance Victoria Community Advisory Committee, City of Greater Bendigo Economic Strategy Steering Committee and YWCA Australia. 

Khayshie served as the Inaugural City of Greater Bendigo Youth Mayor and was instrumental in forming the first Youth Council in 2019. Khayshie has been named in the top 100 future leaders of Australia, Young Citizen of the Year 2017, Premier’s Volunteer Leadership Champion 2019, Law Student of the Year 2019 and has represented Australia at the Young Humanitarian United Nations Conference in Thailand in 2018.

Khayshie specialises in utilising user-centred design and collaborative practice to foster empathetic solutions using lived experience. Khayshie is a keen continual learner with a wide network who yearns to work across multiple disciplines to create holistic programs which champion equity and uplift marginalised cohorts.

Vice-President, Vietnamese Community in Australia (Victoria Chapter)
Board Member, Western Chances

Celia possesses a diverse range of skills obtained through various work experience across different sectors. An excellent collaborator, she is skilled in policy writing, community and stakeholder engagement, and strategic communications.

Celia is a community leader, and recipient of many awards including the prestigious 2016 Premier’s Volunteer of the Year, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Award. In 2020 she was named the youngest recipient of the IPAA Top 50 Public Sector Women awards.

Deputy Emergency Management Commissioner
Emergency Management Victoria

Debra is the Deputy Emergency Management Commissioner for the State of Victoria. Prior to joining Emergency Management Victoria (EMV), Debra had an extensive and diverse career with Victoria Police. Debra’s police career saw her serve across many areas of the force and in significant leadership roles within Operational, Support and Corporate Commands. 

At EMV Debra is responsible for the Capability and Risk Directorate. Notable reform includes the introduction of an emergency strategic Intelligence capability and emergency management leadership during the 2019-20 Eastern Victorian Bushfires and COVID 19.

Councillor, City of Greater Geelong
Board President, Volunteering Geelong

Councillor Aitken has a strong family history of community service and has sat on the boards of a number of community organisations.

He believes that giving back to the community you live in is one of the most important values a person can have.

Policy Adviser, Municipal Association of Victoria

Jan has extensive experience in providing advice, advocacy and leadership to local government on a broad range issues including those impacting older people and the communities they live in.

Chief Executive Officer, Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand

Stella is a Leadership Victoria graduate with more than 20 years working across the welfare, community services and government sectors.

Stella’s experience and insight into the sector is sought from various boards with memberships and / or seats held with various welfare organisations including the Victorian Council of Social Service.

Strategic Advisor - Intellectual Disability, National Disability Insurance Scheme

Daniel advises the Board and Executive of the National Disability Insurance Scheme on how to improve opportunities so that people with intellectual disability can play a greater role in our community. 

As a member of the former Ministerial Council for Volunteers, Daniel consistently contributed to strategic thinking and planning for priority work, including a leadership survey and forum, and key reports and publications.

Chief Executive Officer, Friends for Good

Patricia has worked as a leader in grassroots community organisations for many years, aiming to bring about social change.

Patricia co-founded Friends for Good and is passionate about breaking down the stigma of mental illness and other issues brought about by loneliness.

Chief Executive Officer, Whitelion Youth Agency
Director, Victorian Pride Centre

Hang has over 20 years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector leading complex national and international programs. This includes leadership roles at the Australian Red Cross and EACH Social and Community Health. She served a six-year term as Vice-President of ACOSS.

Her qualifications include Executive MBA, degrees in Social Work and Arts; and Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors. Hang came to Australia in the late 1970s with her family as Vietnamese refugees and is a member of the LGBTIQ community.

Director Not-for-Profit Law Program, Justice Connect

Sue Woodward is Head of Justice Connect’s specialist Not-for-profit Law service. She is a board member of VCOSS and the Human Rights Law Centre. 

Sue has worked on policy and laws reform issues of importance to the Victorian and Australian not-for-profit sector for more than 15 years, including on many issues affecting volunteers. From 2012-2015 she was the inaugural Director, Policy & Education at the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. She is a qualified lawyer and a former academic at the Melbourne Law School.

Chief Executive Officer, Eastern Volunteers

Viv has over 30 years’ experience in health, early years, child and family, and community services, with 25 of these in executive management.

Viv has led organisations with integrated paid and volunteer workforces for 20 years and brings significant expertise in the delivery of community services through these workforces. 

Viv brings strong outcomes measurement expertise and has worked to introduce outcomes-based strategy in a range of health and human services in Victoria. Viv specialises in supporting small to medium organisations with their governance to ensure a diverse community sector.

Chief Executive Officer, Albury Wodonga Volunteer Resource Centre

Jemma Toohey’s career has extended over 34 years in volunteer co- ordination and management with services including the Australian Red Cross, City of Wodonga, Community Visitors Scheme and Lutheran Aged Care. Many of these roles have involved initiating new services, updating documentation and living the experience of working with volunteers and supporting them to best practice.

This culmination of years of experience of Jemma and her team lead to the creation of the Way2Go Toolkit for Volunteer Managers. The toolkit is of value to any organisation that has volunteers as part of the team-for setting up a new program, to auditing and updating current programs and to date over 2000 organisation across Australia have used and implemented the protocols and procedures inherent within the kit.

In her current role as CEO of AWVRB she has received grants to support the extension and innovation of multiple projects that remain sustainable in Albury Wodonga. The past 3 years in particular Jemma has been heavily involved with the National Network of Volunteer Resource Centers.

Her passion and support has been an underlying force in the Re-imaging volunteering research. She believes that our rural and regional communities have enormous capacity to move and lead change and is proud to be associated with this research that puts a local lens on our volunteering, participatory action and social cohesion.

Chief Executive Officer, Volunteer West

Thu-Trang is the Chief Executive Officer of Volunteer West.Thu-Trang brings extensive cross-sector experience in public, private and non-government organisations.

She is passionate about creating value and impact in everything she does and brings extensive expertise in inclusive and collaborative practice to her work.