Meet L.Michelle Smith, award winning communicator, corporate leader and business owner.

1. So our readers can get to know you, briefly introduce yourself to our audience.

I am an author, speaker and leader who is also founder of No Silos Communications LLC, the parent company for a series of media, content, and tech brands including “The Culture Soup Podcast^tm” and The30MinuteMentor.com. I have more than 25 years of experience as a communicator and integrated marketer at global agencies, my own boutique, PR agency, and a Fortune 10 technology, telecom, and media company.

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She is in constant demand as a keynote speaker, facilitator, panelist and host and has been featured across the United States for Brand-Innovators at their summits in Dallas, NYC Social Media Week and SXSW, Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit, Howard University’s Annual Social Media Conference, the National Black Public Relations Society annual conference,  the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) global conference, Blogging While Brown, Black Enterprise Entrepreneur Summit, and other major venues. She is a member of the Texas Christian University Bob Schieffer College of Strategic Communications Board of Visitors, is featured in the nationally-televised TCU Lead On ad campaign, and profiled prominently in a related, digital, mini documentary.

Fast Company once called Michelle one of the best media trainers in the business. She spent about a dozen years training executives in the C-Suite for keynotes, presentations, interviews, and appearances on CNBC, The Today Show, CNN, and other national and local broadcast shows. She has since applied those tenets to her own speaking opportunities and added her own signature, infectious energy and personality to become one of the most sought after contemporary keynote speakers on topics that concern technology, business, and culture.

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