Lexie Smith

Personal Brands
 

Lexie Smith is a PR strategist, thought leadership expert, and 3x entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of GROWTH MODE, a premier Personal Brand Agency, and the Co-Founder of Ready Set Coach Community. Through her work, she helps leaders and founders build brands rooted in authority and connection that earn recognition, command respect, and create influence that compounds over time. Grounded in the belief that growth is not linear and that personal brands should evolve alongside the leader, she creates ecosystems where visibility is aligned with credibility and influence is built with intention.

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Over her 15+ year career, Lexie has held senior and executive roles at PR agencies, built and led in-house PR and marketing departments, and served as VP at one of Inc. Magazine and Financial Times’ “Fastest Growing Companies in America.” Her expertise has been sought after by global organizations, and she has spoken at conferences and universities worldwide, coaching hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives on leveraging PR and thought leadership for meaningful influence.

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Under her leadership, clients have achieved award-winning growth, secured substantial investment, earned industry honors, and secured features in Forbes, GMA, TechCrunch, Wired, Goop, Vogue, Refinery29, Travel & Leisure, Morning Brew, Elle, and Oprah, among many others. Her insights have been featured in Entrepreneur, Business Insider, NASDAQ, Crunchbase, and Create & Cultivate. She is the host of the top-ranked Pitchin’ and Sippin’ Podcast and serves as a board member for Every Day Action, a nonprofit that reallocates Hollywood’s excess food to the unhoused and hungry.

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