Darren Smith - Powerful Executive Leadership & Business Development Coach Print

Cima Strategic's Founder & CEO

Darren helps executives develop an edge to make winning easier.

Darren delivers one of the most dramatic and powerful leadership and business development experiences for executives. He is to the executive what a carabiner is to the mountain climber. Darren helps executives reach higher levels than they could alone.

Darren has done business in 20 countries across 10 industries and has started and sold two companies. He is a graduate of Texas A&M and has university credentials in marketing, international business and executive coaching. His clients include HKS Architects, Staubach Company, the Texas Society of Association Executives, Mrs Bairds Bread and Toyota.

Recent speaking engagements include:

  • The Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants
  • The Associated General Contractors of Oklahoma
  • The North Texas Chapter of the American Production and Inventory Control Society

Darren speaks regularly on the subjects of strategy, coaching, leadership, international business, and business development. Darren's audiences have ranged from the Business School at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana to the local chapter of the Associated General Contractors in Austin, Texas. Lastly, Darren is married and he and his wife can successfully field a basketball team. Darren has five children.
 

HOW CAN DARREN HELP YOU?

  • Management consulting focused on strategy & business development
  • Executive Coaching and Group Coaching
  • Speaking & Facilitation

Examples include lowering the labor intensity while increasing the effectiveness of an organization's business development efforts, executing a coaching program to help a client increase bench strength and delivering a workshop on the Art of Questioning to members of a professional association to help increase their effectiveness.

DARREN'S COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Darren wants to develop a sincere relationship focused on you. He understands there are only three ways he can deliver unique value to you beyond the obvious business transaction. He can help you make or save time or money, bring you an idea you can use or introduce you to someone you would benefit from knowing. When you have a relationship with Darren, you have someone that cares about you, your business and your knowledge base. You have an advocate.

PHILOSOPHY

Less is more.

Simple is beautiful.

Strive for success, not perfection.

Darren assumes you are serious about changing the attitude, thinking, behavior and performance of your employees.

The manner in which you and Darren plan, implement, manage and measure the project is key to the development of organizational capability that over time can impact the attitude, thinking, behavior and performance of the employees comprising your organization.

METHOD

We help you establish well-formed outcomes through the use of questioning tools that create clear objectives, measurements and value.

Then, we help implement in a phased approach.

    * Advance the strategy
    * Kick-off
    * Implement a manageable, prioritized chunk
    * Check the work
    * Adjust
    * Repeat

Celebrate Success.

 
Darren & Sally with children, Molly, Joseph, Aidan & Natalie