Committed | Competent | Caring.
Dr. Claire offers transformational support, guidance, and encouragement to successful leaders through retreats, coaching, and tools such as books and studies. She serves as a spiritual mentor and coach, author, and speaker.
The Experience
The Strategic Lifestyle Connection for your personal and professional growth.
Why Dr. Claire is uniquely positioned to work with successful leaders who deal with complex issues at personal and professional levels.
Dr. Claire Annelise Smith, PhD, is a living embodiment of resilience and purpose-driven leadership. As an educator, minister/pastor, program director, and international leader, she has navigated significant life changes, including the death of loved ones, a life-changing illness, shifts in professional direction, staff management, and relocations.
Through these experiences, Dr. Claire has developed a deep understanding of the importance of maintaining a connection with God, others, and oneself, even during the most challenging times. Having gone through significant life changes herself, she is convinced of this: God is. When we anchor in this certainty, we are unshakeable and unstoppable amidst the craziness and changes as well as the changeability of life. Thus, she is committed to helping others stay connected with God as they go through the changes in their own lives.
Now, as a spiritual mentor and coach, Dr. Claire empowers successful leaders to navigate their own life transitions with confidence, hope, and love. Her clients report experiencing a greater sense of inner peace and resilience.
Dr. Claire provides her clients with a transformative method to cut through the numerous layers of their work and lives, empowering them to reach the core of what is most significant and meaningful. As an author and speaker, she shares her expertise and guidance, helping clients achieve clarity in their purpose and life direction, while also improving their personal and professional relationships.
With her diverse background, including roles as a youth minister, pastor, faculty member, program director, and international leader, Dr. Claire is uniquely positioned to support others in their journeys of growth and transformation.
In addition, Dr. Claire is the founder of Strategic Lifestyle Connection that serves as the central platform through which Dr. Claire delivers her expertise and guidance as a spiritual mentor and coach, while also leveraging complementary offerings like books and programs to support her clients’ personal and professional growth.
Clients who work with Dr. Claire experience clarity regarding their purpose and life direction, improved personal and professional relationships, and are provided with a method to cut through the numerous layers of their work and lives to reach the core of what is most significant.
What They Say
The experience you can have and deserve.
Dr. Smith aided me with focusing on what was important, highlighting how to best utilize my time, which in turn helped me best aid those around me professionally and personally.
I highly recommend Dr. Claire as a highly skilled professional whose listening and honest advice has helped change my life and career for the better. I continue to work with her to achieve my best life possible.
Words cannot describe my experience with Claire Smith. In the time I have been a part of her coaching I have seen so much productivity in managing my life personally and professionally. I have received clarity.
Dr. Claire is Here for You Because Leaders Should Have Someone Committed to Supporting, Encouraging, and Guiding Them.
You are there for others, shouldn’t you have someone who is there for you?
She knows that you are dealing with the following leadership challenges. She has been there. She gets it. She gets you.
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Complex issues
The complex issues that leaders deal with include understanding the multiple layers of the company, casting the vision, plotting the strategy, implementing the plan, managing people, establishing partnerships and collaborations, and communicating effectively. -
Change
The landscape is changing. Geopolitical dynamics are shifting, with consumers and partners moving faster than ever before. AI is becoming ubiquitous; ignoring it may no longer be an option. The circumstances are becoming more challenging, and, of course, you, your situation, and the people around you are also changing. -
Pressure and Responsibility
With these complex issues and changes, leaders face significant pressures and responsibilities. In addition to this, there is an expectation and desire to maintain healthy professional and personal relationships. -
Isolation
Standing by your principles and decisions often means standing alone. Additionally, there are very few people in a similar position, and therefore, very few, if any, who can understand you and where you are coming from.
This is why Dr. Claire supports leaders. She has been in their shoes and understands.
Through her coaching, retreats, and other tools, she provides a unique path for these leaders to connect while gaining the clarity that strengthens their confidence, engenders hope, and is permeated with love. Dr. Claire, brimming with Spirit-infused creativity, uses one-of-a-kind solutions to meet her clients’ needs.
Dr. Claire is also building a community of leaders who are ready to grow through their changes with confidence, hope, and love.
What Guides Dr. Claire's Work
Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:29 – 31
Her Core Values
Here are the values which form the foundation from which she serves:
- God made each of us wonderfully unique with intrinsic and inestimable value.
- As a result, each person is to be treated with honor, dignity and respect.
- The qualities of honesty, confidentiality, empathy, and compassion are non-negotiable.
- Living and serving from a place of love is essential for providing support, guidance, and encouragement.
You will find Dr. Claire’s C/V here.
Dr. Claire is competent, conscientious and most of all caring. She seeks to help those lives she touches with their work and life journeys . . . providing the tools, resources and guidance to turn their visions into successful reality.
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