Catherine shares her unique combination of communication skills, media savvy, diversity expertise and political acumen with an array of top-ranked companies and organizations. Over 25 years, she's served sizeable corporations like Wal-Mart Stores, Intel Corporation, Chevron, Google, and Major League Baseball as well as noteworthy brands in media, politics and business.Ms. Smith is best known for clearly seeing a company's future pathways to opportunity. She has a profound ability to interpret disparate-sourced data about reputation, culture and trust, and then guide the enterprise and its leaders to right decisions. She is particularly adept around disruptive events like mergers and acquisitions, litigation, unplanned board or executive departures, and product recalls that threaten adverse impacts on investors, media, customers or regulators and shareholders. Prior to founding True Blue Inclusion, Ms. Smith served as Special Assistant and Director of Presidential Advance to President William J. Clinton; led the U.S. Effort on Agriculture for the WTO - Seattle Round, and created innovative diversity and inclusion products and services for iVillage,Inc and lines of business for NBC Universal. She received a Bachelor of Science /Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing and Management from Texas A&M University. Ms. Smith has been featured in numerous national publications including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is an experienced commentator on culture, gender, race, ethnicity, business and leadership . She has appeared on major television networks such FOX Business News and CNN to offer commentary on topical issues of the day. Ms. Smith also speaks frequently on demographics, cultural norms, beliefs and their collective impact on global commerce, bias in artificial intelligence, and gender diversity.She is the recipient of many awards and recognitions for her work in communications, leadership and brand management.