Joanne commenced her first CEO role at the Foundation Of Nursing Studies (FoNS) in May 2019. Joanne brings knowledge and experience from a range of roles in public health, nursing and from her work at national and international level as a system nurse leader, a Queen’s Nurse and as a visiting professor at the University of Surrey. Joanne was awarded an MBE for services to nursing and healthcare in June 2013, a Fellowship of The Queen’s Nursing Institute and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Greenwich in 2016. Joanne joined Sigma Theta Tau in 2018 and has interests in workplace culture, person-centred leadership, sustainability, social determinants of health and wellbeing, health equity and how nurses and midwives can and should be seen as advocates for communities.