Alison Smith

Alison Smith is a Resilience Coach and the Founder of The Thrive Designer. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach who works passionately to support people and organizations to design systems that help them thrive.

As a resilience coach for nearly a decade, Alison Smith has spent thousands of hours coaching clients experiencing burnout in a variety of fields and functions. And as a fellow human, she’s been there too. In her speaking engagements, Alison shares what she has learned about the power of small acts of resilience as a way to ultimately design your life to thrive.

After audiences hear me speak, they will be empowered to take small but powerful steps of resilience so they can thrive in their work and life.

Watch Me Speak:

https://youtu.be/09ZRYbHJR_c

What Audiences Say:

• “Alison Smith is the most knowledgeable person I know on the subject of resilience. She seems to have read everything and shares what she knows in the most helpful ways so that I don’t feel compelled to need to read everything out there on the topic myself. I can simply use her coaching to apply the wisdom of the research in order to seek my own balance and set my own boundaries.” -DaNel Hogan - Learning Officer, STEMAZing Systems Thinking Division, Waters Center for Systems Thinking
• “Alison, to say you have transformed my view of social emotional wellness would be the biggest understatement. You moved me to tears multiple times and truly inspired me. You are incredible!”
• “Alison is amazing! I’m so happy to have the opportunity to learn from her.”
• “It is so great to have the organization care about resilience and thriving!”
• “Thriving is not just the end product. Doing your best and keeping on going even during tough times is also thriving.”
• “The idea of thriving as being in a state of knowing yourself vs. what we normally consider thriving was incredibly encouraging and definitely reset my idea of what success can look like.”
• “Thank you for the strategies to break down challenges into achievable pieces. The THRIVE framework is super helpful!”
• “I feel like this was so much more than I ever could’ve expected!”