Featured Speaker

Christopher Smith

Chris is a Principal in Advisory Services and leads Grant Thornton’s National Strategy Practice. He brings both a depth and breadth of experience having managed hundreds of advisory engagements, both domestically and internationally, across several corporate functions and many industries.

Chris’ advisory experience focuses on designing and deploying future-ready strategies for clients wanting high, yet sustainable growth and then operationalizing the strategy across the organization. His depth of knowledge covers sales, marketing and customer strategy, strategy transformation, operational excellence, postmerger integration, human capital and organizational capability design.

Most recently, Chris has been focused on leading large scale growth strategy initiatives across several industries. This involves conducting deep market analysis, customer segmentation, product/service ideation and business model design. In addition, he works with several clients to accelerate growth through inorganic means specifically focused on conducting commercial and operational diligence.

Chris has sat on the Board of Directors of multiple companies across industries. He has also been published and/or looked to for expertise in a variety of leading publications including HBR, Fortune, Forbes and WSJ.