Developing relationships which provide mutual benefit requires intention and attention. Over a lifetime of living and working in the same community, the value of creating, nurturing, and maintaining relationships has been embedded into all Joanne Sullivan does. Often citing Malcolm Gladwell and Stephen Covey and her own life experience, she brings her lively sense of humor and her joy in building relationships to her presentation, maintaining, with time and effort, you, too, can become a serial connector.
Speaker: Joanne Sullivan
Joanne Sullivan’s career in fund-raising, development and community relations in Tampa spans thirty years and includes key leadership positions at the University of Tampa, Florida Hospital Tampa Foundation (now Advent Health), Academy at the Lakes, the Tampa Museum of Art, and Berkeley Preparatory School. She currently serves the University of South Florida as USF Health Assistant Vice President of Community Engagement.
Ms. Sullivan is a graduate of Florida State University and is on the Tampa Bay regional board of Easterseals Florida. She recently completed service on the Easterseals National Board of Directors where she chaired the Marketing and Development Committee. She is a member of Leadership Tampa Bay’s Class of 2010 and Leadership Tampa Bay Alumni Board of Directors. She is also a member of Leadership Tampa’s Class of 1991. In addition, Joanne is a member of Red Cross Angels serving the American Red Cross Florida’s West Coast Region & Tampa Bay Chapter. She is a member of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Association for Fundraising Professionals, where she is a past president and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Tampa. She is a member of USF’s Women in Leadership & Philanthropy.
Joanne is a past finalist in the Tampa Bay Business Journal Business Woman of the Year in the Tampa Bay region. In 2015, Joanne was selected by her fundraising peers in the Tampa Bay area as the recipient of the Lloyd Horton Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2022 she presented a TED Talk at TEDx Westshore entitled “Confessions of a Serial Connector.”