Greg Smith

Greg Smith heads the firm’s Leadership Development & Coaching practice. He also serves clients in the areas of Change Management, Strategy Alignment Cascade, Organizational Design, Culture & Engagement and High Performing Teams.Greg is a senior business leader who has thrived in challenging business environments for more than 25 years, achieving results that are in line with the required strategic and cultural transformation. His multiple industry experience and expertise in strategy formation, organizational design, talent development and culture building combined with his HR expertise makes him an excellent Trusted Advisor.As an HR lead at Porter Airlines, Campbell Soup, Marriott and Wolseley, Greg was known as a leader who committed to breakthrough performance and innovation with a pragmatic business focus. His passion for people and his strong creative ability resulted in significant advancement in team member engagement and connectivity in both the profit and non-profit sectors.Greg has served on numerous boards and councils including the Daily Bread Food Bank, the Food Processors HR Council and Matthew House Refugee Settlement Center.Greg has a proven track record of improving organizational performance through people while challenging conventional thinking. This mindset and experience are very consistent with Lighthouse NINE’s multi-disciplinary approach and his focus on alignment & collaboration fits perfectly with our mission.As a Partner at Lighthouse NINE, Greg’s clients will benefit from the firm’s breadth and depth of knowledge and our collaborative approach. By harnessing these experiences, organizations can simplify challenges, build partnerships, focus action and deliver outstanding results.
29
Oct

Taming Your Personal Critics and Activating Your Inner Champion

But a voice in your head stops you, ‘You have no idea what you’re talking about. This isn’t going to work. Why should they trust you?’ And that voice comes back every time you open the email to send it.

The inner critic often speaks to us in ways we would never put up if it was coming from someone else and can stop us in our tracks, but it’s in our heads – what can we do?

In this article, I will show you how you can manage your inner critic and empower your inner champion to take centre stage.

14
Oct

Inner Critic Worksheet: How to Manage Your Internal Dialogue and Empower Your Inner Champion

This worksheet is intended to identify, track and manage your inner critic.

First, a journal or reflection on when your inner critic has been active will help you understand and even name it.

Then, by acknowledging and dialoguing with your inner critic, you can learn from your past but prevent your inner critic from taking the stage and misinforming the moment.

With a clearer heart and headed perspective, we can choose what to do with the inner critic’s input when it appears and threatens to take center stage. Proactively taking the time to listen, leverage/or not and let go of the inner critic opens space to hear and access our inner champion. Our inner champion is our unique wisdom, experience and skills that often get silenced by the energy of our critics and judges. Our critic and judge conversation gets quicker and less frequent with practice as our inner champion confidence enhances and takes top billing on our center stage.

18
Mar

Evolving Leaders; The Best Leaders are Always Evolving

Leaders evolve. To exist in time is to evolve, but the more important question is; are you present and active in your evolution as a leader?

Active evolution is when internal influences lead change and personal development. The best leaders know this and are always evolving.

10
Jan

Curious in the Crunchy

We live in a “crunchy” world right now, and it is easy to be swept up in disagreement and discourse with colleagues, friends and family.

Crunchy are those moments of disconnect that normally leave us grumpy, uncomfortable, annoyed and impatient.

As a seven (7) on the Enneagram® (Enneagram is a system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions), most folks would see me as a pretty positive guy, glass half full, always looking for the light in the darkness.

When I am healthy, well-rested and investing in myself, I can remain curious, open, and fluid in almost any situation. In most circumstances, this can be a beautiful approach to life, soaked in optimism and possibilities.

6
Dec

Nana’s Wisdom

Over the past weeks, I have spoken to several clients within different industries, and everyone seems to be experiencing the same thing: massive change, high stress, and not enough time. Added to the work challenge: worry about potential school strikes, waves of flu-like symptoms in the house and the natural stress of family holiday gatherings, things truly seem overwhelming in

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7
Oct

Equipping Leaders for Growth and Resilience Program

Pricing extended until October 9, 2020!!! A unique action learning program to accelerate critical business initiatives and keep high valued team members! This four-month, virtual program which begins October 19th will surround your leader with a counsel of experts, a community of peers, a personal coach and immediate practical tools and insights to deliver results. To support the project delivery,

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25
Jun

Seeking and Enabling Safe Brave Spaces

Safe Brave Space is not a thing or a destination, but rather a state of being and relating. It isn’t something that you achieve but rather something that you continually create. Over the past six months, I have been writing my first book ‘Seeking and Enabling Safe Brave Spaces.’  The book has been brewing over the past few years, beginning

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5
Jun

Finding Keys in Quarantine #3

Finding Keys in Quarantine #3: Choosing to ELOPE Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing some insights that I have been learning from my time in quarantine that might resonate with others. Most of these insights have always been in me, however, like finally finding lost keys when you have been looking for ages, it is only when

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21
May

Finding Keys in Quarantine #2

Finding Keys in Quarantine #2: Energy and Mind Storms Last week, I began sharing some insights that I have been learning from my time in quarantine that might resonate with others. Most of these insights have always been in me, however, like finally finding lost keys, when you have been looking for ages, it is only when you slow down

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