Jim Smith

20+ years I have held executive roles in Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Human Resources.

Jim Smith has worked with clients that hail from high-performing middle market and Fortune 500 companies in the service, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors, as well as non-profit, government, and educational organizations.

Achieved the highest designation in Ontological Coaching (NCOC®) through The New field Network, where I currently serve as a Trainer and Mentor Coach. I was a member of the first-ever global certification for Authentic Happiness Coach with Martin Seligman, the father of Positive Psychology.I earned my PCC (Professional Certified Coach) designation through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), I am a founder and past president of the Cleveland Chapter of the ICF, a past (and the only two-term) president of the Cleveland Society for Human Resource Management, and currently on the exec teams for both the HR Leadership Group of Northeast Ohio (HRLG) and theAssociation for Coaches & Coach Training Organizations (ACTO), and have served on various professional and non-profit boards. He has also served for 20 years as an adjunct instructor for various universities, most notably for 15 years for Baldwin Wallace University’s MBA program in Human Resources.