SmikleSpeaks

by Joanne L. Smikle, PhD

Joanne L. Smikle, PhD is a respected authority on leadership and organization development. She provides learning that helps you soar! Each episode prepares you to lead in our ever-evolving world. Subscribe today...content is updated all of the time! Get more relevant tools from The SmikleSpeaks YouTube Channel and the library at smiklespeaks.com. Contact Joanne for assistance with your individual and organizational development. ...   ...  Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 17

  • Next Chapters, Featuring Marilyn Wood, Pt. 2

    Next Chapters, Featuring Marilyn Wood, Pt. 2

    Marilyn Wood shares more of her story of going from bedside nurse, to nursing home administrator to founder and CEO of one of the country's most highly rated privately-held nursing home chains in Florida. In her latest chapter she's teaching, training, and serving in very different ways. Listen and learn...

  • Spirit at Work, Featuring Rev. Virgil Hammett

    Spirit at Work, Featuring Rev. Virgil Hammett

    As we continue in the Spirit at Work Series we get to have a conversation with Virgil Hammett. He has two successful careers: one as a leader in human services and the other as the pastor of an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church. He's long followed both a secular and religious path and created natural ways to blend them. He is a master at bringing spirit to work.

  • Living the Dream, Featuring Lanecia Baldwin, Pt. 2

    Living the Dream, Featuring Lanecia Baldwin, Pt. 2

    More with Lanecia Baldwin on how she took a chance on herself, pursued a cross-country adventure, and made many of her dreams reality.

  • Living the Dream, Featuring Lanecia Baldwin, Pt. 1

    Living the Dream, Featuring Lanecia Baldwin, Pt. 1

    Not a lot of people have the courage to sell their homes, store the possessions they care about, pack their car, drive around the country, and explore to their heart's content. Most of us have dreams but many of us don’t have the courage to go after them and make them reality. Alabama native Lanecia Baldwin decided to live her dream and she’s going to tell us all about it.

  • Next Chapters, Featuring Marilyn Wood, Pt. 1

    Next Chapters, Featuring Marilyn Wood, Pt. 1

    Marilyn Wood is the retired founder and CEO of Opis Senior Services Group. The company operated 14 nursing homes throughout Florida. It also had a physician practice, home health service, and rehab company under its umbrella. Marilyn weathered the pandemic, sold the company, and is now writing the next chapter of her life.