A Career That Valued the Gift of Time

In November 2024, Sue Kobar retired after 44 years of working in the volunteer sector in both paid and unpaid leadership roles around the globe. In this poignant, first-person account, Kobar highlights many of the key lessons she learned along the way, and describes the important changes that occurred in the field of Volunteer Engagement during her four decades in the profession. She reflects that one thing has remained constant: her diverse career “has always been about valuing a person’s gift of time.”