Lily Ponce Smith

Lily Smith specializes in facilitating transformative peer-to-peer roundtables, delivering pivotal leadership training, and providing tailored coaching. She empowers leaders to achieve strategic clarity, dramatically enhance performance, shape a robust organizational culture, and drive growth with efficiency and profitability. Lily’s comprehensive business training, combined with her diverse creative skills spanning fine arts, graphic design, fashion, and spatial design, enrich her holistic perspective on organizational well-being. Her innate talent for identifying strategic opportunities within organizations and weaving them into a cohesive plan distinguishes her approach.

Leveraging an extensive background across public, private, non-profit, and sustainability sectors, Lily’s accomplishments range from transforming organizational systems and corporate positioning to safeguarding the wellbeing of vulnerable communities. Her achievements have garnered business awards and recognition from Mayor Ron Dellums of Oakland, California, and she has been honored with an MLK Award for philanthropy.

Key Clients: Mayor Ron Dellums, West Oakland Alliance Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sony, Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College, Intent.com

“…your contributions and support of (my) peace initiative and work with the faith community… and consultation on the project were an integral part of the success of the conference. Our staff shortage due to the City’s fiscal challenges threatened the success of the conference. (You) jumped in and filled in the gaps providing key direction for the project.“ – MAYOR RON DELLUMS | City of Oakland Oakland, CA

“Over the past four years (Lily) has played an essential role… for two of my businesses and has surpassed my expectations all along… With Lily there is no task that can’t be done. She is a strong-minded, creative professional who stands out by virtue of her dependability and tenacity to achieve the unexpected. I always recommend her without any hesitation.” – JAY ANAST | President, Alliance Defense Recycling Vallejo, CA