TeamWorks is an organizational performance firm headquartered in Ventura, California (near Los Angeles). It is nationally recognized for its work in team performance and the people engagement side of organizational turnaround, breakthrough and productivity.
TeamWorks creates critical breakthroughs in individual, team and organizational performance. We help leaders harness the energy and good hearts of their people to swiftly solve problems, attain objectives and generate substantial, measurable results. Through commitment to collaboration with our clients and honoring of relationships, we are able to genuinely engage people, motivate learning, rebuild trust and translate these into action and measurable productivity. TeamWorks assists leaders to rejuvenate teams, strengthen workgroups and elevate organizations. Our approach is interactive, fun and compelling.
Eric Smith is President of TeamWorks, an organizational performance firm nationally recognized for its work in the people-engagement side of organizational turnaround and productivity. Since 1982, Smith has personally studied and worked with many of the world's preeminent business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators such as Wally 'Famous' Amos, Stephen Covey, Buckminster Fuller, Tom Peters, Anthony Robbins, Peter Senge and Margaret Wheatley.
For over 25 years, Smith has led leadership, change and productivity initiatives for thousands of individuals from locally based organizations to international and Fortune 1000 companies. His expertise is in assisting leaders to harness the talent of their people to achieve the critical breakthroughs needed now and deliver measurable gains in people productivity and bottom line ROI.
Smith is certified in mediation and ancient Hawaiian Ho`oponopono (problem solving). He has been recognized by the Martin Luther King Institute and the University of Hawaii for pioneering work in peer mediation. He was also an award-winning instructor for the University of Hawaii's statewide Family Community Leadership Program for grassroots community redevelopment.
Smith is the author of Navigating toward True North: A Guidebook for Organizational Success, and several articles on breakthrough productivity and high performing cultures. He has also been a long-time member of and speaker for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
Smith has a B.A. from The Colorado College, and advanced education at the Burklyn Business School and the Excelerated Business School for Entrepreneurs.
Raised on the Big Island of Hawaii and spending formative managerial years in Hawaii, Eric learned early the importance and potential of diverse values and multinational, multicultural dynamics. This, coupled with formal and advanced education in business and organization development, has given Eric an extraordinary understanding at applying the proven leadership and team building approaches of the Eastern, Polynesian and Western cultures. Eric's skill is in assisting leaders to effectively navigate change and thrive in today's powerfully integrating "flat world".
The following are international educators and business leaders with whom Eric has personally worked with or studied under. These individuals have made or are making direct contribution to TeamWorks:
- Joel Barker (leading international business consultant and futurist who pioneered and popularized the term "paradigms")
- Stephen Covey (best-selling author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, premier leadership consultant)
- Tom Crum (John Denver's partner and co-founder of the Windstar Foundation, Aikido master)
- R. Buckminster Fuller (renowned humanitarian, scientist, inventor and philosopher)
- Trinidad Hunt (international educator and business consultant, award-winning author of Learning to Learn).
- Tom Peters (international business guru, best-selling author and consultant)
- Anthony Robbins (renowned motivation and peak performance coach)
- Peter Senge (M.I.T. professor, best-selling author of The Fifth Discipline, acclaimed pioneer in the field of "Learning Organizations")
- Morrnah N. Simeona (Kahuna Lapa`au, Healer, Educator, Living Treasure of the State of Hawaii)
- Marshall Thurber (international educator, one of Dr. W. Edwards Deming's foremost protégé's and quality teachers)
- Margaret Wheatley (author, international business consultant, recognized for her work in the field of leadership and chaos theory)
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Eric D. Smith
Founder & President
Email: TeamWorks@ssctv.net
Phone: (916) 276-7621
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