Steve McCurley is an internationally-known trainer and speaker in the field of effective volunteer involvement. He is currently a principal in VM Systems, a management consulting firm specializing in helping organizations improve their utilization of volunteers.

He has served as a consultant on volunteer program development to AARP, the National Association of Partners in Education, the US Tennis Association, Special Olympics International, the National Park Service, the Points of Light Foundation and many other groups. He is the co-founder with Susan Ellis of e-Volunteerism: The Electronic Journal of the Volunteer Community. He is one of the founding faculty of the Institute on Advanced Volunteer Management, held in the United Kingdom each year. He is the author of 14 books and more than 150 articles on volunteer involvement, including the bestselling basic text, Volunteer Management: Mobilizing All the Resources of the Community, 2nd Edition and Keeping Volunteers: A Guide to Retention.

On the international front, Steve has done work in Canada, England, Ireland, the Caribbean, Australia, and South America. His writings have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Chinese and Korean, among other languages.