Josh Campbell

Chief Operations Officer

Chief Operations Officer Josh Campbell joined the Boys & Girls Club Movement in 2004, as a summer camp counselor in Michigan with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kalamazoo. In 2006, he moved to Oahu to attend Hawaii Pacific University and while there worked with Boys & Girls Clubs of Hawaii. During the summer months Josh returned to the Boys & Girls Club camp in Michigan as the assistant director. In the fall of 2007, he went to Kenya to renovate primary schools and build playground equipment for the kids. Then in January 2008 he started as the Director of Community Outreach and Environmental Education for the Kalamazoo Club. He remained in that position for seven years before taking over operations of Boys & Girls Clubs of the Big Island (Hawaii) in January of 2015.

Josh relocated to Nashville in February 2017. In July 2017, Josh became the Director of Program Quality/Spring Hill Unit Director for Boys & Girls Clubs of Maury County. Shortly thereafter he was selected to serve as one of Nashville After Zone Alliance‘s (NAZA) Fellows. For this Josh was trained, tested, and certified as an External Assessor of Youth Program Quality through the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality. In December 2018, Josh was certified as a Youth Work Methods Trainer by the Forum for Youth Investment and the Weikart Center. Josh became the full-time Director of Program Quality in January 2019, before being promoted to Chief Operations Officer in August 2019. In October 2019 he was certified as a Tier 2 National Trainer by Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

In May 2022, Josh was selected to receive the 2022 NTI Train the Trainer Award from Boys & Girls Clubs of America. This award recognizes an NTI (National Trainers Initiative) Tier 2 Trainer who has shown excellence in leading the NTI Tier 1 Training of Trainers. Within our organization, Josh has trained five Tier 1 (now all Tier 2) trainers. In August 2022, Josh received the TN Professional of the Year Award during the Tennessee Area Council conference in Murfreesboro.