About Kathy Smith

Kathy Smith is vice president talent development for Nationwide. In this role, Smith leads enterprise learning, talent planning, performance management and career and development planning. In addition, she leads efforts to accelerate development of enterprise executives and critical talent pools through assessment, coaching, mentoring, learning, developmental assignments and planned moves. Prior to this role, Smith held leadership roles in HR consulting, diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition and consumer-packaged goods marketing. She is active in the community and currently serves on the board of the Mentoring Center of Central Ohio. Smith graduated from University of Toledo with a bachelor’s in communication and Ohio State University with both a master’s degree in education and an MBA.