Jo Garner

Founder and CEO, Strategic Grants

Jo leads a passionate team dedicated to working collaboratively with for-purpose organisations to build their capacity and secure grant funding to deliver vital projects to achieve their mission. Jo works directly with both funders and fund-seekers to enable more effective grant-making through ensuring grant guidelines, application and reporting forms are best capturing the information and outcomes that a particular funder wants to achieve. And then translating that into training for the organisations applying.  


In addition to strong communication skills, her key experience and strengths lie in the ability to apply strategic thinking and solutions to the challenges faced by the for-purpose sector. Jo loves working with leadership teams to help them develop the right solution to build their capacity and sustainability. 


Jo is a regular presenter at key fundraising and philanthropy conferences and is known for her engaging training techniques and facilitation of strategic planning workshop.

Session 4A: HOW TO: Using AI in Best Practice Grant-Seeking