In season one, episode five, Rob chat to Ruth Leonard about the role of professional associations when it comes to identifying and encouraging advnaced practcie for leaders of volunteer engagement.

Ruth Leonard is Chair of the UK’s Association of Volunteer Managers whose day job is Head of Volunteering Development at Macmillan Cancer Support.

For Ruth, volunteer management is about empowering and enabling people to bring creativity and ingenuity to a solution to make a difference in their community.

Her current role is to consider strategically where volunteering can add value to developing solutions and to ensure a supportive infrastructure so people who want to give their time can have a quality experience. Having been involved in volunteer management for nearly two decades she has significant experience at providing leadership on involving and engaging people and is committed to ensuring others are able to develop these skills.

You can connect with Ruth on LinkedIn at https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ruthbleonard or on Twitter @struthyb


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