Management Leadership Certificate ProgramProgram Faculty and Experts

Jared Smith

As an adjunct professor at Florida International University School of Hospitality Management and a lecturer with FIU Business Executive Education, Jared Smith is responsible for designing and facilitating strategic decision making, problem solving, communications, EIQ, process improvement, business case development and related programs. He co-designed and has been a lead facilitator for the High-Performance Leadership Program for more than 10 years.

Smith provides management consulting services for a variety of organizations within multiple industries involving strategic planning, executive/leadership coaching, leadership development/assessment, change management, customer and employee/culture experience, organization design and development, training and development, and project oversight. He helps organizations and leaders build awareness, identify and prioritize goals, sustain focus, and achieve breakthrough performance.

He has worked as a consultant with both Accenture Consulting and Watson Wyatt and has over 20 years of experience in organization design and development, training, change management and process consultant, customer service and employee experience subject matter expert, senior project manager and as a speaker and trainer from a variety of projects with numerous Fortune 1000 companies, as well as smaller organizations.

He has leadership experience with all stages of the project life cycle involving large IT and operational initiatives requiring leadership of multiple departments, teams, subject matter experts, outside vendors and coordination with executive team members, senior management and related stakeholders. He has developed strategic plans with executive teams and managed tactical implementation plans for those initiatives.

Joe Cardiello

Joe Cardiello has been with Dale Carnegie Training for nearly 20 years. In that time, he has lived and worked in four locations (NYC, Hawaii, South Florida, and Jamaica), and has been responsible for developing trainers, maintaining trainer quality, and designing and delivering training to a wide range of corporate clients. Some current and past clients include Google, Microsoft, Indeed, Continental AG, Experian, Luxottica, Sagaicor and multiple federal and local government agencies across the United States and Jamaica.

Currently, Cardiello is the head leadership trainer working with Continental in its North American locations. Both before joining Dale Carnegie, and simultaneously during his first 10 years with the company, Cardiello owned and ran a garment manufacturing and importing firm based in New York City for 19 years. Clients included Walmart, Kohls, Sears and Chico’s.

Cardiello combines his business leadership experience with his long-standing training experience to deliver powerful programs, primarily focused on sales, leadership, and presentation skills. Cardiello has a BBA in marketing from Hofstra University in New York.