Leadership Team
Angela Smith
With international and domestic experience working with marginalized, Spanish-speaking communities, Angela holds a Bachelor degree in Foreign Language, Spanish, from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh where she graduated summa cum laude.
She is fluent in Spanish, serves as an instructor for Language Learners in community and academic settings, has wide-ranging experience with diverse organizations in the human services and religious communities specifically leading efforts to serve and empower women, youth and minorities in the United States and abroad.
Her international experience includes mission services and research, academic studies and international communication consulting. Angela builds on her background as an accomplished journalist to assist organizations in identifying key community partnership opportunities, creating low cost, high impact promotional concepts and crafting strategic communication tools.
Piper Gill-Frangos
In one word – Intrepid.
An international marketing consultant, Piper has worked for and consulted to numerous organizations across North America and the Asia Pacific.
The vast majority of her experience revolves around developing business and marketing strategies; brand management; designing integrated communications plans and helping companies cultivate existing markets while expanding into new markets. She works with Universities, government organizations, corporations, small businesses and senior executives developing educational platforms which inspire and promote leadership.
Her work has taken her to both traditional financial markets such as New York, London and Tokyo as well as emerging economies such as Russia India and China as well as several South American and Eastern European countries.
Piper is passionate about helping underprivileged children, refugees and the homeless. She works with a variety of charities around the world to address socio-economic disparities. She is a member of various boards and committees related to the promotion of education and leadership.
Piper speaks Spanish fluently and has studied French, Italian and Greek. Piper has Bachelors degrees in Foreign Language and Political Science. She also holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters of Marketing from the University of Melbourne.
Robert Smith
Having grassroots, Congressional, corporate, faith based and public affairs credentials, Robert provides executives, public officials and non-profit leaders community engagement and strategic business advice, crafts communication plans and provides speech writing and presentation design services and coaching.
Robert has led communication system redesign, business growth, service innovation and community engagement efforts for health care systems; provided strategic planning advice to universities, faith organizations, corporate boards-of-directors; has experience leading improvement teams based upon Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and LEAN criteria; held public office; been recognized by diverse community organizations including the NAACP and Big Brothers Big Sisters and began his career on Capitol Hill where he specialized in policy areas including transportation, infrastructure and the environment.
Robert earned his Bachelor degree from Eastern Illinois University, holds a Masters degree in Business from Webster University, St. Louis and has studied at the Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin.
