The Coach Team

Experience matters.
The coach helping you find the way
should know the way.

Leadership principles are universal.
Leadership challenges are not.

Every new level brings new pressures, new blind spots, and new consequences.

The coach walking beside you shouldn’t just understand you; they should understand the road you’re on
... because they’ve walked it themselves.

Your A Bold Leader coach will have real-world experience in the role you’re in or the role you seek. If we can’t provide it, we’ll refer you to someone who can.

TD Smyers

Founder | Executive Coach

TD is a seasoned and in-demand executive coach specializing in CEO succession. Leveraging four decades of executive leadership experience, he helps new CEOs get a great start out of the gate and functional leads in the C-Suite prepare for succession to the top executive role.

TD’s strength-based framework builds genuine confidence on a foundation of self-awareness, skill and character. His real-world, real-time approach lends efficiency and clarity to the coaching experience without tacking “coaching stuff” onto your already full to-do list.

Learn more about TD or dive into the details of his coaching approach.

Leadership Coaches

A Bold Leader now includes a corps of associate Leadership Coaches, with impressive experience across sectors and multiple industries, to serve leaders at all levels on your team!

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Technology

  • Marketing & Advertising

  • Financial Technology (Fintech)

  • Business Operations, Processes & Systems

  • Product Development

  • Strategic Leadership

  • Economic Development

  • Chamber of Commerce Operations

  • Public Affairs

  • Organizational Growth

  • Gallup Strengths Coach

  • Training & Instruction

  • Community Leadership

  • Information Technology (IT)

  • Software Sytems Design

  • Operational Analysis & Efficiency

  • Community Engagement

  • Sustainable Revenue Generation

  • Nonprofit Governance

  • Purpose-Driven Leadership