J.W. Smith and Associates, LLC

About Us

At J.W. Smith and Associates, LLC, We:

Transform ordinary people into extraordinary leaders through our leadership development programs, workshops, retreats, print publications, and business and executive coaching.
Facilitate the acquisition and honing of the business EQ, leadership skills, critical thinking, decision making and strategic agility development needed for successful and collaborative leadership; and enable African-American, Latino and Women leaders to successfully navigate corporate environments, while helping corporations recruit, motivate, and retain them.
Develop GREAT leaders.
Use a whole-person approach — not just the person who shows up for work, but the person who performs a myriad of roles and has multiple responsibilities inside and outside of the organization.
Assist organizations in gaining the best from their people resources as they move from good to better to best.
Utilize leadership and organizational development perspectives, tools, and techniques to improve companies’ ROI and effectiveness; providing executive and business coaching at the individual, group or team level; human resource consulting and training; re-engaging the people resources in mid-size to large corporations.
Understand the challenges in business that African-American, Latino and women leaders face and the unique perspectives they bring to the work environment. We can help you improve your attraction of, motivation for, and success of these valuable assets, as the diversity they bring to the table enhances your myriad of strategic options.
Partner with a cadre of experts who have worked with companies whose issues are similar to what you are facing. We have demonstrated success in working with organizations, leader by leader and at the infrastructure level as well.

Our Mission

“We transform ordinary people into extraordinary leaders.”

Industries We Serve: Organizations with 100 or more employees, as well as emerging, struggling, and experienced leaders in financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, IT, religious, and public sector organizations. We train and develop new leaders, help “calibrate” struggling leaders, and assist in accelerating the trajectory of good leaders as they hone current skills and develop new skills and perspectives. Financial services, IT, legal and accounting practices, pharma, educational, faith-based, governmental and customer service organizations.

OUR FOCUS

Leadership Development

Problem-solving tools, leadership-intensive programs, workshops, retreats, print publications, and business and executive coaching.
Facilitate the acquisition and honing of the business EQ, leadership skills, critical thinking, decision making and strategic agility development needed for successful and collaborative leadership; and enable African-American, Latino and Women leaders to successfully negotiate corporate environments, while helping corporations recruit, motivate, and retain them.

Executive, Leadership and Small Business Coaching

Certified coaches
Live and virtual one-on-one, team and group coaching opportunities

HR Consulting and Training

People and organization-related solutions to people challenges;
Off-the-shelf and custom training programs.

OUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

We transform ordinary people into extraordinary leaders.

We understand organizations and the people who work for them.

We have a cadre of professionals that can be pulled in to assist you in your organizational and people development challenge.

We have a whole-person approach to development – what makes you a better person makes you a better leader. Individuals are more than the work that they do or the company for which they work. Interventions that deal with the whole person will translate into higher ROI for the organization as well.

We can provide assessment-rich feedback, using a variety of assessments and observations to give broader picture of performance and behaviors.

We can articulate the value-added contribution of coaching and other leadership development tools and techniques.

We utilized well-tested leadership development models.

We execute research-supported and practice-tested leadership development, Human Resource Consullting, and Coaching interventions.

We have a concierge approach to service – we are agile and can move quickly to meet your needs. . . .and,

We are very good at what we do with and for you!

About our Partners, Staff and Associates

We have a cadre of 25 consultants who partner with us, and we can pull in the skills that we need on an ad hoc basis, keeping your costs down and maintaining flexibility in what we can do and how quickly we can provide support for you. Our consultants have at least a bachelor’s degree and industry certification or master’s or doctorate degrees. They are part of their own consulting firms and work for us as independent contractors – they are available through us for both long- and short-term engagements. You contract through us, and we manage them for you and don’t add to your administrative burden. We have smooth transitions between engagements and, if needed, during engagements. Dr. Smith has over 35 years of work experience in a variety of industries and has been an HR consultant since 1989. She was a professor of human resource management and leadership development at Winston-Salem State University for 15 years; received the UNC Board of Governor’s Highest Teaching Award in 2010 and WSSU Distinguished Master Teacher’s Certificate in 2014. .

Dr. Smith is also:

Certified on at least 20 psychological instruments
A published author, researcher, and frustrated pianist and tap dancer

“Called to Lead: Anointed to Serve”, “Leadership GPS: Roadmap to Your Success”, and “Leadership Presence, Polish and Panache” are three of the books that Dr. Smith has written to help Christian and other leaders become more savvy, effective and purpose-driven.

We have experience with both for-profit and non-profit organizations, with satisfied customers in educational and religious organizations, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, energy, financial services, and defense organizations, among others.

Our Consultants

Dr. Janice Witt Smith, SPHR

Education

B.S. in Management (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis – IUPUI).
MBA, and PhD in Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Labor Relations, and Organizational Theory with Minor in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Virginia Tech.

Certification

Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Business Coaching Certificate (2014), North Carolina State University.
Goal Imagery Mastery, ICF PCC, CVMDSC

Published Author

Academic journals and conference proceedings and presentations, book entitled, “Called to Lead, Anointed to Serve”.
“Leadership GPS: Roadmap to Your Success”.

Consultant

Experience with military, health services, pharmaceutical, financial services, consulting, telecommunications, computer services, educational, nonprofit, leadership development, and faith-based organizations.
Tenured Full Professor of HR and Leadership Development; Professor Emerita
Creative and instructional delivery expert, trainer, writer.