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Transform Your Workplace with Love-Centered Leadership
Love? Yes, Love!
Want a team that works together - reliably and with heart?
The key is leading with Love instead of fear. Not soft, sentimental Love. But real, strong, bold Love—the kind rooted in trust, respect, responsibility, and care. The kind that builds loyal, high-performing teams and happier, healthier people, families, and communities, too.
Renee Smith works with rising leaders who want to do the right thing, who want to lead with their values, but find themselves subjected to expectations for control, blame, and distance when the pressure’s on.
The pattern is common; most of us were taught to lead with fear. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.
Renee shows you how to break those habits and build new ones that work, habits that create safety, fuel collaboration, and inspire results.
As the creator of Love-Centered Leadership™, she brings decades of experience, research, and real-life results to every talk and training program. She’s led major culture transformations, advised executives, and taught thousands of leaders in eleven countries how to successfully lead with courage, clarity, and heart.
If you want your leaders to show up differently, ready for a more joyful and meaningful workplace where people thrive and the work gets done, schedule Renee to keynote your next event.
Fearful norms are out; new, Loving habits are in!
Renée Smith is the 2025 People’s Choice Award Winner for the National Speaker’s Association NW Last Story Standing Competition!
Storytelling is at the heart of Renée’s research and her keynote talks!
To learn more about bringing her powerful storytelling and impactful message to your group, schedule a call today!
The Future of Work is Love, Not Fear!
What if workplaces weren’t built on fear, but on love? The most effective leaders and teams are those who create conditions of love, where people feel valued, safe, and free to bring their full creative selves to work. Through research, storytelling, and practical strategies, Renée helps leaders and teams move beyond an outdated command-and-control approach to build workplaces of mutual responsibility, commitment, and joy where both people and performance excel. Renée will show you why you should put love at the center of work and then the steps to do that every day!
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“I enjoyed Renee's dynamic presentation!" "She has wonderful energy that engages people!" "Incredible session." "Amazing speaker and content."
Renée shares the Loving habits of human-centered success!
More Essential Human Skills
Participants in Renée’s talks and programs report a 42-70% increase in qualities such as gratitude, kindness, care, awareness of self and of others, listening, managing biases, connecting behaviors, inclusion, trust, and resilient self-care.
More Positive Team Actions
Participants in Renée’s talks and programs report a 34-56% increase in positive team behaviors such as recognition, cross-team connection, sharing ideas, listening, vulnerability, feedback, productive disagreements, forgiveness, and fun.
More Customer Focus
Participants report a 33-60% improvement in customer-centric behaviors like increased awareness of customers as humans, seeking to understand customers’ needs, engagement, and commitment to meeting needs.
Who doesn’t want greater productivity, problem-solving, and employee engagement, all leading to customer satisfaction?
But do you also care about your team members being happy, healthy, and joyful at work?
Then Renée’s keynote will guide you and your team to the human heart of leadership, meaningful teamwork, and results!
Leading Global Voice on Loving Leadership
Founder & CEO of A Human Workplace and Co-Founder of the Center for a Loving Workplace
Former Director of Workplace Transformation in the Governor’s Office for the State of Washington
Behavioral scientist and organizational expert with over two decades of experience in leadership, culture change, and workplace transformation
Respected keynote speaker who has addressed audiences across industries—including manufacturing, education, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, IT, social services, military, construction, professional services, and more
Research-based insights on love in the workplace, backed by qualitative studies and neuroscience
Featured on global stages in eleven countries and media sharing a powerful case for why love is essential to leadership and work
Podcast host and thought leader, sharing strategies for building compassionate, high-performing teams
Award-winning speaker, leader, and scholar, winning…
The People’s Choice Award in the National Speaker Association NW’s Last Story Standing competition
The coveted Governor’s Leadership in Management Award for the State of Washington
The Ashton Scholar Award in the School of Psychology at Seattle Pacific University.
Doha, Qatar

Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen, Denmark

Seattle, Washington

Gathering in Olympia

Barcelona, Spain
Olympia, Washington
Washingont State Lean Conference

Lean Enterprise Institute Coaching Summit


Olympia, Washington

Doha, Qatar

A Human Workplace Olympia

A Human Workplace Olympia closing

Doha, Qatar

Reykjavik, Iceland

Lisbon, Portugal
With Governor Jay Inslee
Doha, Qatar

iTec in Barcelona

iTec in Barcelona

Administrative Professionals for WA State
A Human Workplace Olympia

Canadian Lean Summit, Toronto, Canada
Doha, Qatar
Lean Enterprise Institute

A Human Workplace Team

Renee Smith with Kimberly Davis, author of Brave Leadership, and Sesil Pir, author of Human-Centered Leadership

A Human Workplace Olympia