Shirley N. Smith-Crews, Owner and Sr. Consultant

A life philosophy of aligning people’s skills and talents at work, fortifies many including the employers’ business, employee job satisfaction, home life and society. This philosophy provided numerous accomplishments in her professional and personal development. Shirley credits her creative style to being born in her parent’s car.

Shirley’s continuous learning-view point has earned her success throughout her professional life. While working in the insurance industry, her experience included assignments in Human Resources, payroll and interviewing, IT business analysis, and project management. She developed expertise in assessing situations, building and maintaining a customized project planning system for assuring project progress and supervision, and serving as liaison between customers and IT employees.

As she moved on to become the first Account Manager for a national information technology consulting company, Shirley was introduced to professional training, where she found she possesses strong skills and talent.

She developed an onboarding program, customized workshops, and experiential learning activities to enhance professional development and work expectations and developed an employee knowledge base to maintain awareness of strengths and gaps as a whole business.

Shirley is a certified trainer in all Everything DiSC® Products, a certified trainer in 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Playing Your Bigger Game and more. Shirley is a 2016 graduate of Leadership Illinois and was recognized by Worldwide Branding for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in consulting in that same year.