Christi Smith Email & Phone Number

United States

Kansas

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Alpha Delta Kappa's Mission is to empower women educators to advance inclusion, educational excellence, altruism and world understanding. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, Alpha Delta Kappa has more than 1,100.
• Direct strategic initiatives, operational management and stakeholder engagement for a network of 24,000 members across 1,200 chapters.
• Manage a $15.5M financial portfolio with a keen focus on fiscal responsibility and efficiency.
• Ensure alignment of programs, standard operating procedures and financial decisions with organizational mission and strategic objectives.
• Spearheading a cultural transformation emphasizing collaboration among volunteer officers, board members, committees and staff.
• Close communication gaps to foster synergy and ensure that staff, volunteers, board members are informed, inspired and empowered.

Course content expert for Management capstone courses and provide mentor support to adjunct faculty. Evaluate and develop course content.

• Established and developed a talented team of 68 employees from inception, overseeing a startup department with a contract responsibility of $6 million.
• Orchestrated the coordination of a new office location, fostering a collaborative workspace and implementing enhanced technologies and systems to facilitate remote employee mobilization and increase work productivity.
• Rapidly advanced to oversee two regions and all core functions including services and programming, operations, fund development, human resources, training and development, finance, technology systems and community.
• Spearheaded change and transformation initiatives across regions resulting in the evolution of business practices and significant improvements in client satisfaction and employee engagement.
• Implemented a new data retention system leading to increased efficiencies and expanded capacity.
• Pioneered innovative partnerships with community stakeholders, state and local leaders, catalyzing in a statewide culture shift of service.

Kansas City

• Spearhead a team of 30 employees and all core functions: operations, human resources, training and development, finance, technology systems, services and programs, and community outreach with a contract responsibility.
• Chartered an innovative partnership with state and regional leaders, judicial systems and community partners resulting in a statewide culture shift of family preservation services.
• Coordinated new office location resulting in a collaborative workspace and enhanced technologies and systems to mobilize remote employees and increase work productivity.
• Aligned state policy, DCF (Department for Children and Families) contract, Evidence Based Practice Model and internal procedures to meet the Federal Family First Services Act.
• Advise DCF and state steering committees; KS Strong, Kan Coach, Family Finding and Kansas Citizen Review Panel, to systematize child welfare services.

Kansas

Child Care Aware® of Kansas is the administrator for the Child Care Resource and Referral network in Kansas. We ensure that families have access to affordable, high-quality child care, lead programs that improve the quality of care children receive, and advocate for positive changes that impact the lives of children and families. As director, I led a team.

Kansas City

• Designed statewide professional development curricula for Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
• Skilled presenter and facilitator with success targeting large audiences presenting nationally.
• Event and professional development planning.
• Editor for the Core Competencies for Early Learning and Youth Development Professionals, Kansas and Missouri.
• Developed Teaching Students to Empower Families: A Curriculum Based on the Strengthening Families™ Framework (SFF). Focused on an approach to disseminate the SFF information to practitioners through existing college.

Provided vision and leadership for up to 20 child care centers in Missouri and Kansas serving approximately 375 employees and 1,800 children.  P&L responsibilities up to $19M. Provided leadership and strategic direction for operational systems and improvements to increase efficiency, increase profitability, implement educational programs including.

Overland Park, KS

 Selected to optimize efficiencies by centralizing the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) for 120 locations in nine states. Successfully participated in the development, organization, and re-structure of the CACFP program. Instrumental in recruiting, training, mentoring, and developing key members of the new department. Developed and implemented.

Glendale, Arizona

Directed Youth and Family services including 13 not-for-profit before and after school programs, preschool programs, teen programs and child watch. Supported strategies for new program development, endowment, volunteer recruitment and fundraising.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology, Child & Family Development, Communications

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Organizational Leadership