Call and Response
10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church

About L. Michelle Smith

L. Michelle Smith helps organizations build heart-centered leaders who can lead well in a fast-moving, high-pressure world shaped by complexity, disruption, and machine learning. Working at the intersection of science and culture, she equips leaders to strengthen the human capabilities that matter most now: judgment, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, trust, adaptability, communication, and the ability to lead people through uncertainty without losing the human core of leadership. She is the founder and CEO of no silos communications llc, a media and consulting company that develops executive leaders and transforms organizations through executive coaching, enterprise learning, culture work, and leadership development. Through her proprietary Leadership Revival Framework, L. Michelle integrates applied neuroscience, positive psychology, and cultural insight to help leaders grow from the inside out. With SOAR DISCernIQ and AI Intelligence, she is adding CQ, EQ, and IQ to assess leadership patterns more deeply, measure growth, and build stronger heart-centered leadership across organizations. A bestselling, award-winning author, Fortune 100 C-Suite advisor, and certified executive and personal coach, L. Michelle has more than 25 years of experience across global agencies, corporate leadership, media, and entrepreneurship. She made vice president before age 30, senior vice president before 40, and later led her own agency as chief executive for nearly a decade. She is the author of four books, including Call & Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church (Amistad/HarperCollins/JVL Media), and the creator and host of The Culture Soup Podcast® and Her Next Power Move. Her clients have included leaders from American Express, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Netflix, CNN, Capital One, and AT&T.