Profile of Steve Smith
"My goal is to cultivate excellence by asking the hardest questions and providing the highest-quality answers."
Steve Smith, M.A., P.H.R.
With over 15 years of professional experiential education experience, college classroom teaching experience, and current human resource credentials, Steve Smith has extensive experience, education, and formal training to help you refine your program, improve safety and quality, develop staff, and plan for the future.
Steve's credentials include:
PHR (Professional in Human Resources) certification from HRCI;
- Extensive experience recruiting and hiring outdoor professionals (having hired and trained hundreds of field staff while at Outward Bound and elsewhere);
- Professional recognition, including the Outward Bound Field Staff Excellence Award in 2002;
- Presenting papers and research at over twenty professional conferences;
“The master in the art of living makes little
distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure,
his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and
his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his
vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing
both.” - James Michener