Joanne Campagna

is a Weekly Blog Writer since 2019 and Book Author of Making A Point: A Business Owner’s Field Companion, published in March 2025. Additionally, she provides strategic business advice and marketing expertise to a closely related family professional business. Her current focus is small business and sharing her book at book signings or speaking engagements.

With her past corporate experience, she brings over 20 + years of commercial banking expertise with a global bank leading a team of specialists focused on understanding each business client’s unique needs to deliver strategic capacity building and financial guidance and solutions.

She has served in the capacity of Construction Financing Subject Matter Expert and Subject Matter Expert for Canadian firms doing business in the US.

To help create a more sustainable future, she has served on a number of Boards and is active in her community. She is a past Trustee of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, ECMC, and past Chair of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership CanAm Council, as well as a past Treasurer of the Pro-Zoo Board. She is a graduate of Leadership Buffalo and the FBI Citizen’s Academy and was a participant in the Junior Achievement Day of Teaching for Financial Literacy.

Joanne graduated with both a Bachelor’s Degree and MBA from the University of Buffalo, is a graduate of the American Bankers Association Commercial Credit Training Program, and a Business First Women of Influence Corporate Executive Award Recipient in 2016.

Joanne participated in the Executive Exchange Program at The Buffalo Niagara Partnership for several years, which provided her with direct experience in Leadership Programs, inspiring her to create IWON (Illuminate Women Owners Network).

On the personal side, Joanne recently relocated from Buffalo, NY and now resides in Jamestown, NY, where she is involved with preserving an historic home and continues to promote a sporting breed dog, the Barbet.