Michelle Smith

Governance guide for a regenerative future.

Role
Co-founder and Consultant at Circle Forward
Location
Asheville, NC, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Michelle Smith

Circle Forward co-founder, regenerative governance guide, trainer & facilitator, Michelle…

Experience

  1. Co-founder and Consultant

    Circle Forward

    Jan 2014 — Present · Asheville, NC, US

    We work with forward-thinking leaders who are engaged in their communities and who value collaborative leadership. Our clients and partners respect systems-thinking. In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, they look beyond business as usual.Whether they are providing leadership and resources in non-profits, for-profits or networks, our clients have social missions that contribute to a vision of resiliency, health and prosperity for all. They understand that creating powerful impact takes great people, processes and plans. We help facilitate, plan, and re-tool structures so they can achieve it.Social Profit Strategies provides-training and implementation for those who are innovating powerful new social and organizational structures through the practice of Circle Forward-strategic planning for collective impact and organizational transformation including key documentation of the process results i.e, planning docs, assessment results, theory of change docs, purpose statements and docs (vision, mission, aim)-knowledge of and access to leading-edge tools and resources: i.e, collective impact; board best practices; network mapping; and collaborative technology such as Trusted Sharing-facilitation for meetings and retreats using leading-edge methods and tools including Circle Forward and TOPS-support for developing measures and processes that create transparency, accountability and trust-1:1 consultation and coaching-capacity building and support in fundraising, development, and social media.Contact us for a free, no-obligation one hour consultation.We would love to hear about your vision for prosperity + social change.

Education

  • University of North Carolina

    Bachelor of Art, Literature

    1990 — 1993

  • University of North Carolina Asheville

    BA, Literature

    1989 — 1992

  • Celebrant Foundation & Institute

    Certification, Life-Cycle Celebrant

    2009 — 2010

Skills

  • Event Planning
  • Proposal Writing
  • Conference Coordination
  • Customer Service
  • Writing
  • Sustainability
  • Integrated Marketing
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Event Management
  • Online Marketing
  • Fundraising
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Volunteer Management
  • Training
  • Customer Relations
  • Small Business
  • Entertainment
  • Program Management
  • Marketing Communications
  • Facebook
  • Blogging
  • Research
  • Grants
  • Leadership Development
  • Budgets
  • Creative Writing
  • Conferences
  • Community Outreach
  • Community Development
  • Strategy
  • Copywriting
  • Consulting
  • Budgeting
  • Publicity
  • Social Networking
  • Nonprofits
  • Special Events
  • Editing
  • Social Media
  • Philanthropy

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