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Mary Smith is an associate consultant with IA Business Advisors and is a Kolbe Certified Consultant. She has a bachelor’s degree in English literature with a minor in psychology from the University of Redlands. She is currently working toward her master’s degree in organizational leadership. Together with Brian Smith, she developed The I in Team Series to help leaders find, be, and build their positive influence. The newest title in the series is Individual Advantages: Be the “I” in Team.

Mary Smith

Brian Smith has a PhD in organizational psychology, a master’s degree in management information systems, a bachelor’s degree in accounting, and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt consultant. His company, IA Business Advisors, has helped more than 18,000 clients since 1996 and continues to provide both virtual and on-site consulting services to clients worldwide. Together with Mary Smith, he developed The I in Team Series to help leaders find, be, and build their positive influence. The newest title in the series is Individual Advantages: Be the “I” in Team.

Brian Smith

November 2021 - TD Magazine

Unleashing your influence has a ripple effect.

Take Your Influence Out of the Box

Adam Smith is a senior consultant and executive coach. He partners with leaders to help them think, act, and engage differently in learning and development, and to thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments. Throughout assessment, goal-setting, exploration, practice, and integration, Adam strives to enable leaders to exercise their full competence, initiative, and creativity, to raise their level of performance and satisfaction, and to elicit the best contributions from their teams and all stakeholders.Adam has over 25 years of experience in coaching, leadership development, organization consulting, and executive assessment and recruitment. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies in various sectors to nonprofits, private companies, and startups. Adam designs and facilitates coaching programs and workshops for private sector clients, federal agencies, and business schools in higher education.Adam has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in organization development, studies in industrial/organizational psychology at George Mason University; a BA in English literature from the University of Mary Washington along with leadership coaching training at Georgetown University. He holds the credential of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation; is a Certified Practitioner with Hogan Assessment Systems, the Leadership Circle 360 Profile and Culture Survey, Everything DiSC, 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, EQi 2.0 and EQi 360, and is a Certified Action Learning Coach (CALC) with the World Institute for Action Learning. He has also received extensive training in adult development, career coaching, and resilient leadership.

Adam Smith

Jason Smith is an experienced manager, facilitator, instructor, and leadership coach. He currently is the Leadership Development Manager for a market-leading medical device company, Cochlear, which develops a variety of innovative hearing loss solutions. In this role, he is focused on standing up an internal leadership coaching program for senior leaders, creating a leadership development strategy for the organization, and driving  positive change by embedding existing leadership development offering's into the organization's culture. Jason's leadership development philosophy is grounded in the emerging field of humanistic leadership, emotional intelligence, and adult development theory. Before joining Cochlear in 2019, Jason worked for 17 years in the US Government in both policy and intelligence positions, focused on analyzing complex information to help senior US officials stay ahead of a broad array of critical US  national security challenges.  He also has extensive experience working with the US military and law enforcement at all levels.  An experienced first and second-line manager, the units Jason leads are known for high morale, trust, and good team dynamics, which he believes lead naturally and sustainably to efficient processes, exceptional results, and excellent talent retention. Jason is a seasoned hiring advisor and talent evaluator who has nearly a decade of experience interviewing applicants and helping people with career development and transition. Jason's passion for helping others develop brought him full time into leadership development instruction, coaching, and management for the Federal Government in 2016 and led to his transition to the private sector and his current role.Jason grew up in Loudoun County, Virginia and currently lives outside Denver, Colorado with his wife Mary and two children Olivia and Parker.  Jason has a BA in Government and international Relations from George Mason University and a MA in Organizational Leadership and Learning from The George Washington University. Jason also is an Associate Credentialed Coach through the International Coach Federation and a graduate of Georgetown University's rigorous leadership coaching certification program. Jason enjoys, running, hiking, and getting outside as much as possible. He also loves mopey, introspective music, creative horror and sci-fi movies, and boring documentaries about pretty much anything.

Jason Smith

Lisa Ann Cairns is vice president of L&D at Smith University where she oversees content creation and enhances talent development for all of Smith’s global offices, operations, and distribution hubs. Prior to that position, Cairns served in many roles for Smith and Smith-affiliated entities, including as chief strategy officer for ZettaWorks and vice president of EcoStrategy for ONTILITY. Before her tenure at Smith, Cairns was a professor of linguistic anthropology and taught at several higher education institutions, including Texas A&M University; the University of Michigan; Northwestern University; and her alma mater, the University of Chicago. Cairns earned her doctorate and master of arts degree in linguistics from the University of Chicago, during which time she received the prestigious National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University, where she was the institution’s first woman undergraduate to receive a Fulbright-Hayes Grant for independent research prior to attending graduate school.

Lisa Cairns

Dr. Blair Smith is the dean of informatics, management, and technology at American Sentinel University. Previously, he was of the dean of the College of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Phoenix. Dr. Smith was instrumental in the design and development of all degree and certificate programs at the university. He has taught computer science and information technology at a number of institutions, including Metropolitan State College of Denver, Park College, and Computer Learning Center of Anaheim. In May 2011, Dr. Smith participated on a panel for President Obama's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology.  As a consultant, Dr. Smith has assisted clients in solving a variety of business problems. He has conducted MIS staff and organizational evaluations, requirements planning, development of requests for proposals, disaster recovery and business resumption plans, systems analysis, design, project management, and implementation.  Dr. Smith holds a PhD in organizational management from Capella University, an MBA from California State University, Fullerton, and a B.S. in computer and management science from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. He also holds several IT industry certificates.

Blair Smith

Change doesn’t have to be bad. In fact, ATD author Elaine Biech outlines three ways change can be exciting.

Change May Be the Most Exciting Part of Life

Future of Work expert Kim Seeling Smith is a master storyteller, trend translator, frequent media commentator and author that helps business leaders build and retain the right team to achieve their business goals - one of the biggest challenges in the post-Covid world.She has literally had a seat at the table with Sir Richard Branson, launched her book, Mind Reading for Managers at SXSW, co-wrote a book with mega author Brian Tracy, was named one of the Top 101 Global Influencers on Employee Engagement and was one of the few non-technical presenters to be included in the 2020 Atlassian Summit as Covid forced it to move from live to online.A recovering, KPMG trained CPA, Kim has run an internationally recognized consulting firm since 2009. Prior to that she managed globally ranked recruitment teams and has personally conducted over 5,000 exit interviews.You will frequently see Kim on Sunrise, The Today Show, in Forbes, Fast Company, SmartCompany, CEO Magazine, CNBC Online, the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and many other print and radio media outlets.

Kim Seeling Smith

David Smith is global director and co-founder of Virtual Gurus, a company dedicated to supporting individuals and organizations in harnessing the potential of virtual classroom technologies as part of theirdigital learning journeys. He is a skilled facilitator and organization development consultant. He has more than 25 years of solid business experience and takes great enjoyment and pride in helping private, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations implement training and development initiatives that produce results.His passion is the transfer of learning, one of his favorite quotations being “Knowing is not enough we must apply, willing is not enough, we must do!” - Goethe His ability to craft engaging and interactive training sessions has been his mainstay and his passion for learning is evident in any engagement that he undertakes with his many global clients. David is a certified virtual classroom facilitator and instructional designer and regularly speaks at global conferences and training events on the subject of live online learning and how organizations can leverage the learning technologies of today.  One of his greatest achievements was leading a group of 18 multilingual European facilitators in delivering sales training to a group of 10,000 account managers and 2,500 business managers over a three-month period using WebEx Training Center.

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