Professional Development Conference Speaker: Renee Smith

The ICSEW will be publishing biographies and session descriptions of our Professional Development Conference presenters in the weeks leading up to the Aug. 27 conference. To register, please visit EventBrite.

Does LOVE Belong at Work?

This fast-paced, fun, interactive workshop will explore the practice of decreasing fear and increasing love at work. It will also explore the many types of love that are part of being human and successful at work. We aren’t talking about romantic love, but love expressed in respect, trust, kindness, empathy, appreciation, and inclusion – appropriate for the workplace and that in fact we need to thrive and achieve performance.

Through stories, reflection, and small group dialogue, participants will come to better understand loving experiences that support our best contributions, surprising innovations and effective collaborations. 

Renee Smith

As Director of Workplace Transformation at Results Washington, Office of the Governor, Renée champions a more humane and effective workplace through primary research, writing, and speaking on making work more human by increasing love and decreasing fear in the workplace. Renée leads the development of services and resources for state leaders, teams, and organizations to make Washington state government workplaces more human.

Before joining Results Washington, Renée spent nearly seven years at the Department of Enterprise Services leading the Organization Development Services division that provided Lean Transformation Services and Change Excellence Services to DES and Government-to-Government Lean consulting to other state and local governments.

Renée earned a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University. She lives in a 102-year-old craftsman home in Tacoma and enjoys drawing for pleasure, cooking for friends and family, exploring foreign cities and swimming in the Mediterranean.