Dr. Joanne L. Smikle, a respected authority on leadership and organization development, provides keynotes, workshops, and retreats. She prepares leaders for an ever-evolving world.

Why select Joanne?

• Her sessions are interactive and thought-provoking
• She provides strategies and tools that her audiences actually use
• Her goal is to help individuals and organizations reach their most powerful, positive potential

Joanne’s keynotes are always curated to the needs of each client. She designs based on client needs and event themes. Here are a few of the most recent keynotes she’s delivered:

• Hassles to Hope
• Why They Stay…Retention & Engagement
• Appreciative Inquiry: Tools for Transforming the Enterprise

Leaders love her keynotes and workshops because when Smikle Speaks minds move!

Joanne’s thought leadership contributes to the body of practical, usable knowledge.

• Her insights are available on The SmikleSpeaks Podcast. This #1 ranked podcast is heard in 64 countries by more than 37,000 listeners
• Tune in to her YouTube Channel for virtual leadership learning
• She’s authored over 100 published articles that provide actionable knowledge for leaders. These works are featured in both peer-reviewed and practitioner publications. They are available in the library on smiklespeaks.com

Her greatest professional joy comes from helping organizations, through their leaders, excel. She also offers individual leadership development that goes beyond coaching. This service is for people wanting to write their next chapter or accelerate their trajectories.

Summer Jelinek is a leadership keynote speaker, consultant, and educator with more than two decades of leadership experience at organizations including Walt Disney World, the Disney Institute, H-E-B/Central Market, and the Center for Creative Leadership.

She is the creator of the M.A.G.I.C. model for leadership, a practical framework addressing:

• Self-management
• Purpose alignment
• Team galvanization
• Team inspiration
• Chaos control

Why select Summer?

Summer brings real-world hospitality industry experience, combined with humor and storytelling to her keynotes. Her goals are to:

• Help leaders at all levels build purpose
• Ignite action
• Inspire teams
• Stay centered in the face of adversity

She is a proud neurodivergent leadership expert and PhD researcher who shares straightforward leadership truths to empower audiences and organizations to chart new paths forward. Additionally, she’s a best-selling author.

Summer provides values-based coaching that is rooted in co-creating. She understands that there are no one-size-fits-all approaches to human development. This means she works with clients on unpacking ideas and discovering what’s next. She creates tools for each individual client and creates a judgment-free zone for self-discovery.

Key topics

• The M.A.G.I.C. Leadership Model
• Neurodivergence in the Workplace
• Quality Leaders = Quality Culture

Teresita “Terry” Britton, PCC, is an executive coach and organizational development consultant who guides leaders and organizations through change. Her experience is extensive. For more than 20 years she has:

• Designed and facilitated leadership programs, retreats, and workshops
• Coached CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior leadership teams at Fortune 500 corporations
• Coached executives in federal agencies

Founder of Leadership Solutions LLC, Terry designs custom development experiences for every level of the enterprise. She builds retreats and programs for an organization’s most senior leaders to cohort-based programs for mid-level and emerging leaders. Her designs use action learning, structured projects, and peer learning so the change shows up on the job.

Change and culture are the threads through all of her work. Terry has a depth of knowledge in adaptive change. That is the kind of change no plan or restructuring can solve. It requires leaders to shift how they think and behave.

Why select Terry?

• She conducts culture assessments that show leaders where culture supports or undermines strategy
• She integrates belonging and inclusion into all of her programs and coaching
• She facilitates leadership teams as they build their own Leadership Operating Systems, the operating rhythms that guide the enterprise
• She provides tools that enable organizations to create and implement practices that sustain new behavior and turn strategy into execution

Terry is well prepared for the executive coaching and organizational development she provides. She earned the following credentials:

• Certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown University
• Certificate in change management from Johns Hopkins University
• Certificate in the neuroscience of leadership from Harvard Medical School

She brings a background in finance and operations, and is certified in Hogan, Gallup Strengths, and the Leadership Circles assessments and is a Diversity and Belonging Facilitator through Culture Veritas.

Key topics

• Leading Adaptive Change
• Culture Assessment and Transformation
• Leadership Operating Systems

Additionally, Terry provides leadership program design and development. She earns recognition for her senior leader retreats and developmental programs.

Linda Roszak Burton is a respected authority on strengths and evidence-based leadership development, researcher, author, keynote speaker, and board-certified health and well-being coach.

Why select Linda?

• Her programs are informed by the latest research and best practices in gratitude, positive psychology, and neuroscience
• Her programs are designed to engage adult learners and build and broaden the applications of new knowledge
• She emphasizes measurable leadership and culture performance strategies that improve how people work together and advance the well-being of employees and their organization

Linda’s keynotes reflect clients’ desired outcomes with pre-event planning to ensure cultural and program objectives are met. Some of Linda’s recent speaking engagements include:

• The Science of Gratitude: The Positive Impact on Employees and the Organization
• The Gratitude Edge: Harnessing the Science of Gratitude to Elevate Well-Being, Engagement and Partnerships
• The Health and Well-Being Benefits of Gratitude

In addition, Linda shares her subject matter expertise in a variety of ways, including:

• Her TEDx Talk, Gratitude: The Power to Heal the World
• Her international academic research partnerships in England and Australia
• As a contributor to the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly feature series on gratitude since 2017
• Her YouTube channel for short takes on the science of gratitude
• Author of Gratitude Heals®: A Journal for Inspiration and Guidance
• Newly released: What Went Well Today? A 60-day e-Journal mapping character strengths, energy and mood levels, milestones and growth

Linda is honored to coach esteemed leaders across industries, using strength-based and well-being coaching methodologies informed by current research and evidence-based practices in neuroscience, positive psychology, and gratitude, ensuring her work supports mission-driven cultures. Linda is an ICF-ACC Certified Executive Coach and a National Board-Certified Health and Well-Being Coach (NBC-HWC*). She holds certifications in Brain-Based Coaching from the NeuroLeadership Institute and in Positive Psychology Health and Well-Being through the College of Executive Coaching. She is a member of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Associate.

*Linda maintains an active, nationally recognized credential, follows the NBC-HWC Code of Ethics and is HIPAA-compliant.