Douglas Smith
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Douglas Smith

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Douglas Smith, MSSW, is a leadership development trainer, certified trauma-informed coach, and the author of The Path of Rocks and Thorns: Leadership Lessons from a Prison Cell. He brings over a decade of experience in mental health and justice policy, having served as a policy expert at the Texas House of Representatives and later as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Texas Center for Justice and Equity. He also spent more than eight years as an adjunct professor of social policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Doug specializes in helping individuals—and organizations—lead from a place of accountability, self-awareness, and integrity, with a focus on those who have experienced trauma, mental illness, addiction, or incarceration. His work centers on building trauma-informed leadership practices and supporting communities working to end the criminalization of people with mental health needs. He holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin and earned his coaching certification through Erickson Coaching International with an emphasis in trauma-informed practice. Doug’s approach is deeply shaped by personal experience. He has lived through mental illness, substance use disorder, and incarceration—and it is through these experiences that he discovered the leadership lessons at the heart of his work today. He lives in Buda, Texas, with his wife, three adult children, and three rescue dogs.
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