Shanna Hocking | September 2025
Visionary Speaker: Shanna Hocking
Join us on September 9th at 12 Pacific | 3pm Eastern for a Visionary Speaker Session with special guest Shanna Hocking, leader, business owner, former fundraiser, author of One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential.
Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions are private member and invite-only gatherings that bring respected women leaders in impact to share about their personal leadership and impact journey and important lessons learned along the way.
Our guests share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their own leadership and impact journey and share tips and tools they’ve learned, giving members the real talk, connection, and truth we all crave and inspiration you can take with you on your own path.
Following the speaker’s share is an open Q&A with the speaker and time for members to break out into small groups.
About Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions
Too many women in social impact are under-resourced and under-supported, navigating their leadership and impact journey alone, or in a silo. We know, doing the world’s most important work isn’t a solo gig. One way we can stop patching together a leadership journey built on trial and error and instinct alone is to listen and learn from others share the truth behind how they’ve navigated own leadership and impact journey, and share about our own experiences. Through Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions, we remove the veil and the misconceptions of what it takes to lead an impact journey that truly transforms lives and we inspire and equip Impact Table members to elevate their own leadership.
About Shanna
Shanna A. Hocking is a nationally recognized expert in higher education fundraising and nonprofit leadership, and author of One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential (McGraw Hill.)
Shanna Hocking is the founder and CEO of Hocking Leadership, a strategic advisory firm that helps universities and academic medical centers strengthen their leaders, build high-performing teams, and develop workplace cultures that increase retention and grow philanthropy. Shanna partners with chief advancement executives to solve their most complex leadership challenges—from navigating executive transitions to building trust across teams and divisions. Her clients include New York University, Boston University, Lehigh University, University of Maryland Medicine, and Teachers College, Columbia University.
Before founding Hocking Leadership, Shanna spent 20+ years leading advancement teams and raising transformational gifts at top institutions, including the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Alabama, and Duke University. She has managed teams of nearly 50 professionals and understands firsthand what it takes to lead through change, build trusted relationships with donors and campus partners, and achieve meaningful outcomes.
