Renee Smith, MSOD, LSSBB | Founder and CEO | A Human Workplace
About Speaker
Renée Smith, MSOD, LSSBB (she/her) is the founder and CEO of A Human Workplace, a growing global movement, consultancy, and community of affiliated practitioners and aligned leaders together exploring how to make work more loving and human. Their work is based on her primary qualitative research on decreasing fear and increasing love in the workplace. She's spoken to hundreds of audiences in nine countries and spoken to thousands virtually. She’s appeared on numerous podcasts effectively making both the business case and the human case for love. She served in the Governor’s Office as Director of Workplace Transformation for the State of Washington and led award-winning culture change work as Director of Organization Development and Lean Transformation Services for the Department of Enterprise Services. She holds a master’s degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from the University of Washington. She consulted and coached businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations for 20 years. She researches, writes, teaches, and advises clients from her home in Gig Harbor, Washington, historic land of the Coast Salish people, where she sculls in her single shell when the water is calm, makes messy art with oil pastels, concocts craft cocktails for friends, and hosts "Grandma Camp" for her grandkids.