Neil Smith
Managing Partner
SmithOBrien
SmithOBrien Consulting Team
Whether individually or in cross-functional teams, SmithOBrien senior consultants and strategic partners have demonstrated their expertise by leading major industry initiatives including:
- Industry's first Supplier Code of Conduct at Levi Strauss
- Industry's first same-sex domestic partners benefits plan at Lotus Development Corporation
- First application of Total Quality Management with the Balanced Scorecard at Analog Devices
- White House Apparel Industry partnership, resulting in the first uniform code of conduct and monitoring framework for the apparel industry
- Authorship of the first book on stakeholder relations
- Industry's first methodology for reliably quantifying the effects of CSR on corporate profitability
Founding Partners
Neil Smith leads the firm's corporate responsibility measurement and auditing capabilities and shareholder resolution advisory services. He has extensive experience in helping corporations to apply core values and codes of conduct as foundations for organizational change. Neil has participated in the Verification Working Group of the Global Reporting Initiative and is an adjunct faculty member at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, a guest lecturer at Harvard University School of Public Health, and a consultant at Boston College's Center for Corporate Citizenship. He is former co-publisher and executive editor of Executive Citizen, a newsletter on corporate responsibility for senior managers, and co-authored "Shopping for Safer Boat Care" (International Marine, McGraw-Hill, 1997), an analysis and rating scheme on the environmental and health effects of 100 marine products.
Joseph O'Brien advises corporate and institutional clients on branding and communication. He was previously an award-winning creative director in the advertising industry, producing marketing campaigns for General Electric, Miles Laboratories, Raytheon Data Systems, Textron, ITW, Thermo Electron, and more. Earlier in his career, he spent four years in The Netherlands as international director of marketing communications at Vitatron Medical. Joe's experience in health care and bio-medical industries has resulted in consulting engagements at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Rhode Island School of Design, and Brown University and appointment as adjunct faculty at Florida Atlantic University.
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