Jim Smith Email & Phone Number

Visionary leader with over 25 years of experience. My experience spans multiple industries including public facility management, automotive, and military with executive leadership roles at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center, and Mid Florida Events Center. I love switching on light bulbs with people – facilitating those ‘aha moments’ that change mindsets and open up new possibilities. My passion is all about helping people, teams and organizations figure out where they are, where they want to be, and then helping them get there.•Strategic Planning, Execution, and Teamwork: Working with executive team, staff, Board, and vendors to successfully evolve from one revenue stream into multiple ones.•Employee Development: Functioned as “the model” for employee hiring, training, compensation, and performance expectations.•Autonomy: Self-directed achievements, “setting the bar” for growth expectations.•Technology Change-Agent: Facilitated multiple internal contact management system upgrades; worked with staff to improve use and performance of each internal system.•Sales Leadership: Success in selling an intangible service/product and retaining business customers, through repairing and building organization’s brand known for trust and integrity.

Listed skills include Leadership, Event Planning, Event Management, Public Relations, and 23 others.