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LoriLynn Smith, MBA, PMP

Chief Strategist at Strategic Edge Partners

Bassano, Alberta, Canada

Leadership Strategy built on Emotional Intelligence and Sustainable Performance

Lori Lynn Smith has spent more than twenty years leading complex technology programs, strategic partnerships, and organizational delivery in high-stakes environments. Her career has spanned enterprise software, SaaS, and large-scale digital transformation across multiple industries, consistently operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, and leadership development.

She holds an MBA and PMP designation and was recognized with the Best Leadership Excellence in Transformation and Delivery in North America award in 2025.

Lori is the founder of Strategic Edge Partners, a consulting practice focused on organizational strategy and leadership alignment, and Strategy Rebel, a platform helping women leaders build authority with clarity and sustainable performance. She writes and speaks on leadership, strategy systems, and the neuroscience of attention, and has presented her work at the Paris International Conference on Empowerment.

From Canada, she continues to write, speak, and consult on the leadership systems that help organizations move from reactive execution to strategic clarity.

LoriLynn Smith, MBA, PMP Points
Academic 70
Author 48
Influencer 17
Speaker 10
Entrepreneur 0
Total 145

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Individual
Minimum Project Size: $100,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $300+
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: 2005

Areas of Expertise

Agile
Business Strategy 30.26
Change Management
Coaching
Culture
Customer Experience
Health and Wellness 33.85
Healthcare
IT Leadership 31.95
IT Operations 62.74
IT Strategy 32.27
Leadership 31.31
Lean Startup
Management 30.85
Project Management 34.26
Transformation

Industry Experience

Agriculture & Mining
Healthcare
Other
Telecommunications

Publications & Experience

4 Academic Certifications
PMP
PMI
February 01, 2019

Credential ID 2312020

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Tags: IT Leadership, IT Operations, Project Management

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Six Sigma Global Institute
February 18, 2018

Credential ID 11256987

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Tags: IT Leadership, IT Operations, IT Strategy

PRINCE2 Project Management
AXELOS
December 03, 2017

Credential ID GR633090833LS

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Tags: Management, Project Management

Professional Scrum Master I
scrum.org
December 01, 2017

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Tags: Management, Project Management

44 Article/Blogs
Intentional Pause: Governance Discipline That Prevents Bad Decisions
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March 23, 2026
Published on Linkedin February 2, 2026 In high-pressure environments, speed often gets mistaken for competence. Leaders feel the pressure to decide immediately. Any pause might be read as uncertainty. Hesitation could undermine authority. Over time, this creates a culture in which moving fast become

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Grounded Leadership is a Physiological State.
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March 23, 2026
Ambiguity does not affect all leaders equally, and the difference is not explained by experience, intelligence, or seniority. It comes down to something more specific: what happens inside the brain when certainty disappears, and pressure stays constant.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

Let Go at Scale: Strategic Subtraction as an Executive Responsibility
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March 17, 2026
Published on LinkedIn January 26, 2026 Most organizations don’t fail from a lack of ambition… It is all the unmanaged stack of projects and initiatives that hang around forever without ending (ever!). New initiatives launch. Old ones linger. Metrics multiply. Meetings proliferate. Each a

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Why you can't delegate what you can't name
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March 16, 2026
Delegation gets treated as a leadership skill. In practice, it is a clarity problem wearing a leadership costume.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

Why Senior Leaders Design Clarity Instead of Controlling Outcomes
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March 09, 2026
Senior leaders who sustain performance over time share a recognizable pattern in their operations. At a certain point in their careers, they stopped trying to stay on top of every outcome and started investing in the conditions that make good outcomes repeatable.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

Awareness at Scale: Seeing the Organization as It Actually Operates
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March 08, 2026
Published on LinkedIn January 19, 2026 Your dashboard is lying to you. Not intentionally. But it’s optimized for reporting, not reality. It shows completion rates, budget adherence, and milestone tracking. What it doesn’t show is where work actually slows, where decisions quietly stall,

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

ALIGN at Scale: Why Most Leadership Frameworks Fail Organizations
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March 02, 2026
Published on LinkedIn January 12, 2026 Most leadership frameworks were never designed to survive the boardroom. They work beautifully in workshops, retreats, and individual coaching sessions. But the moment they encounter budget constraints, competing priorities, or organizational complexity, they c

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

From Individual Excellence to Organizational Compound Interest
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March 02, 2026
Why the best leaders stop optimizing themselves and start multiplying everyone else. There's a moment in every leader's career where personal growth stops being the point.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

Why Rest Is a Leadership Skill, Especially in Midlife
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February 23, 2026
Published on LinkedIn December 29, 2025 Late December is a strange stretch of time. The calendar says the year is almost over, but the body often says otherwise. Fatigue lingers. Motivation wavers. The noise finally quiets enough for a different question to surface. Was this year actually sustainabl

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Why National Context Matters in Professional Social Media Platforms
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February 23, 2026
Professional social media platforms increasingly shape how leaders interpret risk, opportunity, and change. They influence which issues receive attention, how problems are framed, and which perspectives gain legitimacy.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

What is the Canadian SDG Readiness Assessment tool?
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February 18, 2026
The Canadian SDG Preparation Assessment tool is a self-assessment tool designed by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) to enable Canadian organizations evaluate their readiness and capacity to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (SDGs). The as

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

The Truth About Real Leadership
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February 16, 2026
December 15, 2025 I walked into the meeting carrying more weight than anyone could see. A full calendar behind me, a wall of decisions ahead of me, and the familiar pressure to look composed, capable, and certain. The expectation to have the answers. The quiet belief that leaders hold everything tog

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Navigate Forward: Turning Decisions Into Coordinated Movement
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February 16, 2026
Decisions don't execute themselves. Even when Awareness is clear, priorities are focused, pauses prevent bad choices, and criteria anchor judgment, none of it matters if the decision doesn't translate into coordinated action across the organization.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
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February 12, 2026
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the United Nations Global Goals, were developed in 2015 as a global call to action to eradicate poverty, safeguard the environment, and guarantee that everyone lives in peace and prosperity by the year 2030. There are a total of 17 objectives,

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Micro Energy Skills: The Small Behaviours That Change How You Lead
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February 09, 2026
December 1, 2025 Leadership does not fall apart because of one big moment. It unravels in the small ones. The rushed decision. The tight breath. The yes you did not want to give. The meeting where you were present in body but not in mind. The good news is simple. You can shift your leadership [̷

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Grounding: Decision Criteria That Eliminate Confusion Downstream
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February 09, 2026
Teams don't slow down because they lack capability. They slow down because they don't know what matters most when priorities conflict.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

Resilience and Energy: The Real Advantage in Modern Leadership
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February 02, 2026
Publised Linkedin November 17, 2025 I have led teams through tight deadlines, shifting priorities, and the kind of uncertainty that wears people down. The pattern is always the same. The teams that rise are not the fastest or the most experienced. They are the ones who can recover quickly. Resilienc

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Intentional Pause: Governance Discipline That Prevents Bad Decisions
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February 02, 2026
In high-pressure environments, speed often gets mistaken for competence. Leaders feel the pressure to decide immediately.

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Tags: Business Strategy, IT Operations, Leadership

Motivation Made Easy
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December 22, 2025
Different Types of Motivation There are two main types of motivation:Intrinsic (internal) motivation & extrinsic (external) motivation There are also many different sources of motivation including: Incentive Fear Achievement Growth Power Social  All types and sources can lead to positive or

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Top Five Tips for Achieving a Successful Mindset
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December 22, 2025
Want to start changing your life? Then you need to change yourself. You are in the position you’re in right now because you chose to be there. You might not realize that you chose it but even through your inaction, you in fact did. The job you have right now, your financial circumstances and nearl

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Top Five Benefits of Having a Success Mindset
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December 22, 2025
Are you ready to start getting more out of your life and to start getting the results you want? For many of us, success is a very slow process and one that involves a huge amount of work and effort. For others though, it all seems to come very naturally. We all know those people, […]
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Use Your Daily Goals to Help Develop a Success Mindset
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December 22, 2025
What is your goal in life? For some, it is to get into shape. For some, it is to get rich. For others, it is to see the world. Now, what is your daily goal? This is a very different concept but actually, the daily goal is far more important than the overarching goal – […]
The post Use Your D

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

The Positive Habits of Successful People
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December 21, 2025
What do positive people have in common? Lots of things. And in fact, if you look at the most successful people across every different discipline, you’ll often find that they have more in common than they have differences. Top athletes have a lot more in common with top CEOs than you might expect a

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life
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December 21, 2025
A lot of people claim they know the secret to success. They will claim it is motivation, ambitiousness, positivity, conscientiousness and all sorts of other abstract nouns. However, they are missing the true vital ingredient, the real key that will get you started on the road to success to begin wit

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

The Perfect Morning Routine
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December 21, 2025
One of the best ways to learn how to become more accomplished is to look at the people in life who have accomplished the most and to try and emulate them. What are the secrets to their success? Usually, you’ll find that there are many answers to this question and many things you can learn. […

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

4 Author Newsletters
Grounded Leadership is a Physiological State.
Linkedin
March 23, 2026
Ambiguity does not affect all leaders equally, and the difference is not explained by experience, intelligence, or seniority. It comes down to something more specific: what happens inside the brain when certainty disappears, and pressure stays constant.

See publication

Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Why you can't delegate what you can't name
Linkedin
March 16, 2026
When delegation fails repeatedly, the instinct is to look at the person who received the work. They didn't follow through. They missed the standard. They needed more guidance than expected. Sometimes that's true. More often, the breakdown happened before the work ever left your hands, in the moment you handed something over without fully defining what "done" actually meant.

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Project Management

Micro Energy Skills: The Small Behaviours That Change How You Lead
Linkedin
December 01, 2025
Leadership does not fall apart because of one big moment. It unravels in the small ones. The rushed decision. The tight breath. The yes you did not want to give. The meeting where you were present in body but not in mind.

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Tags: Leadership

Resilience and Energy: The Real Advantage in Modern Leadership
Linkedin
November 17, 2025
I have led teams through tight deadlines, shifting priorities, and the kind of uncertainty that wears people down. The pattern is always the same. The teams that rise are not the fastest or the most experienced. They are the ones who can recover quickly.

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Tags: Leadership

1 Keynote
Burnout, Hormones, and High Performance: The New Rules of Midlife Leadership
i-DIAS Global Conference in Paris
March 07, 2026
Here's the paradox most leadership conversations skip: midlife is when women often hit their professional peak. It's also when hormonal transitions can disrupt focus, amplify stress, and accelerate burnout in ways that have nothing to do with competence or ambition.

The standard advice? Push harder. Optimize better. Manage your time more efficiently.

This presentation is about integrating what leadership frameworks ignore, how to sustain energy, clarity, and performance when your body is going through profound change. Not by pretending it doesn't matter, but by building systems that work with the transition instead of against it.

The work is personal.

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership

1 Masters Degree
Masters of Business Administration
Australian Institute of Business
February 21, 2026
MBA, Australian Institute of Business. General Management with a strong focus on Operations Management, Project Management, and Leadership. Applied learning across complex program environments, with particular depth in how organizational systems, delivery execution, and leadership intersect.

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Tags: IT Operations, Leadership, Project Management

1 Miscellaneous
Leadership Presence: A Practical Path For Women Leading In Complex Roles
WomenThrive Magazine
January 24, 2026
Presence isn't a soft skill. It's what holds your clarity, communication, and authority together when the pressure rises.
My latest article in Women Thrive Magazine breaks down what leadership presence actually looks like in practice, and the five-step ALIGN framework I use to stay steady in demanding situations.

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Tags: Health and Wellness, Leadership, Management

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