About me
Merilee Smith is a high-impact speaker, mindset and leadership development coach, and founder of Spark With Merilee. With nearly 30 years of experience developing leaders across industries, she brings deep insight into how people lead, think, and navigate uncertainty — and a wake-you-up presence that sparks immediate shifts.
As a certified trainer of The Empowerment Dynamic (TED)®, Merilee is passionate about helping leaders and teams break reactive cycles of stress and drama, and move toward intentional, values-aligned action.
Grounded in emotional intelligence, Energy Leadership™ and The Empowerment Dynamic (TED)®, Merilee blends personal experience, humor, and storytelling with interactive exercises that create an open space for real awareness and lasting change.
Her proprietary Inner Board Members™ framework helps leaders identify the internal patterns sabotaging their performance and well-being — and shift to leading with presence and purpose, not pressure.
She is also a contributing author in Twenty Won, sharing her own story of breaking reactive cycles in the chapter "Ditch Drama and Take Charge of Your Story."
Participants don't just leave inspired. They leave equipped to reduce stress and drama, own their mindset and energy, strengthen relationships, and lead from their most grounded selves.
Whether she’s working with emerging talent, senior leaders, or business owners, Merilee’s impact is clear: more empowered people, stronger teams.
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