Jim Smith, SPHR, NCOC™, PCC
The Executive Happiness Coach®

Jim Smith, PCC, NCOC™, SPHR is an executive and life coach, international speaker, author, and change consultant. Jim works with leaders and business owners who are smart and successful…AND who feel stretched and sometimes overwhelmed by the pace of their job and the demands that often outstrip their ability to deliver. Jim helps his clients accurately assess their situation and create a compelling future vision, and then supports them to build the powerful new behaviors that will get them those new outcomes and better business results.

Jim spent more than 20 years in the corporate world where he held senior executive roles in Sales, Finance, Operations, and HR. He has been coaching executives and organizational leaders since 1992, and has coached leaders from eleven countries and four continents to achieve greater leadership effectiveness and balance. Jim's clients include top-tier Fortune 500 companies in the service, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors as well as non-profit, government, and educational organizations.

Jim holds an MBA in organizational behavior from the Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University and a BSBA in management and finance from John Carroll University. He has achieved the highest designation in Ontological Coaching (NCOC™) through The Newfield Network where he currently serves as a Mentor Coach, and he earned his PCC (Professional Certified Coach) designation through the International Coach Federation, in addition to certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.

Jim is a founder and past President of the Cleveland Coach Federation, a past two-term president for the Cleveland Society for Human Resource Management, and currently serves on the board of the Northern Ohio HR Planning Society. In addition, he is an adjunct Instructor for Baldwin Wallace College for their Graduate program in Human Resources.

Jim is the author of Happiness At The Speed of Life: 13 Powerful Strategies for Finding Happiness at Home and On the Job, and he has touched the lives of over 11,000 people through his work on Happiness and the enhancement of Positive Emotion. He has used the 13 Principles of Happiness to raise his own family and to deal with work, life, love, and tragedy.

Finally, Jim wants you to know this: he worships Dark Chocolate… and deeply believes that Happiness is a Decision, not an Event!

 

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