Jamie is a transformative and accomplished professional with over 15 years experience guiding individuals, leaders, and organizations through change. She specializes in organizational and leadership assessments, workplace culture change, and leadership development within healthcare about which she has published and presented internationally. Jamie has helped leaders and organizations as an internal consultant across government, non-profit, and private agencies, and recently founded Pixel Leadership Group in order to have a broader impact on leaders and organizations.
As an Organization Development Consultant for the VHA National Center for Organization Development, she offered a broad array of services, including executive assessment and coaching, senior leadership team development, workplace environment evaluation and intervention, and leading culture change initiatives. One highly successfully initiative was Civility, Respect, and Engagement in the Workplace (CREW), which was implemented in more than 100 medical centers, with 1,100 employee work groups and 10,000 employees participating in the program. She was also asked to lead the Servant Leadership culture change within the VA for which she developed a Servant Leadership 360-Degree Assessment and an associated leadership development resources. As the Organization Development Manager for Nemours Children’s Healthcare System, one of the nation’s largest integrated pediatric healthcare systems, she spearheaded the in-house creation of a suite of customized management development tools and sessions with an emphasis on instilling skills that aligned leaders’ behaviors to the organization’s desired culture, values, and strategic direction. She also led the design and implementation of a robust, highly-regarded Physician Leadership Development Program to develop existing and high-potential physician leaders. In her role as Director of Talent Development for MedExpress, a national leader in urgent care services, her team was responsible for development and training across the full employee lifecycle – from hire to retire – with an emphasis on strengthening the leadership pipeline.
Jamie graduated with honors and Magna Cum Laude with dual majors in Psychology and Sociology from Kent State University. She earned her MS/PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami, FL and is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Ohio. She is very active in her professional organization, APA Division 13 Society of Consulting Psychology, as a part of the Annual Conference Planning Committee (2016 – present) and assisting with continuing education offerings. She lives outside Cleveland, OH with her wonderfully unique high-needs six-year-old, Beckett.
Leadership…this is such an important topic… Why? Because, we’re leaders. Leaders for our team, leaders for our clients, leaders for ourselves But leadership is one of the hardest part of our role as an entrepreneur (I know #1 I live it as well and #2 it’s a topic of many of my conversations with clients) This week we go deep in on the topic of leadership with Jamie Lewis Smith, PhD, Leadership and Organization Development Expert. Jamie has 20 years of experience guiding individuals, leaders, and organizations through change. She’s an expert in organization and executive assessments, workplace culture change, and leadership development. She currently provides consultation and executive coaching to numerous Fortune 100 and 500 organizations and has worked extensively in the technology and healthcare industries. I could have talked with her for hours on this leadership philosophy, I’m sure you’ll truly enjoy this talk. ================================================ 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐... ================================================...