Smeed, Nicholas

NICHOLAS SMEED made a small fortune as an owner/executive of a rapidly growing, high-end, full service manufacturing company. Prior to that he held senior management positions in health care and government since he was 26 years old. He has also worked in several other industries: education, social work, utilities, transportation, and construction. He has been a teacher (middle school math to university graduate school instruction), a published writer, award-winning photographer, top ranked tennis player, professional entertainer, consultant, negotiator, postal worker, and wilderness camp counselor, among many other experiences. He has been an advocate for management as well as for unions and individuals. The author is a personification of the empowered mindset: multi-skilled, constantly pursuing new adventures and self-improvement, always assertively seeking innovative and effective ways of solving problems, and grounded with many experiences and knowledge. He is multi-lingual and multi-cultural (Latvian-Russian heritage), and he emigrated to the U.S. from Germany, where he was born. An eager student of engineering, sciences and arts, sociology and industrial psychology, he attended the University of Colorado and Wayne State University.