Ms. Smith-Hill has helped secure SSM Health as a top employer across its four-state network. She sets the course for systemwide human resources activities, overseeing market HR partners, total rewards, talent acquisition, HR operations, talent management, learning and organizational development, and employee and labor relations. She’s also focused on DEI and on ensuring that SSM Health achieves exceptional engagement and wellbeing for all employees. She brings more than 30 years of experience modeling values-based leadership, exhibiting strategic business partnering, delivering high-impact talent solutions, fostering organizational health and culture change, promoting DEI, implementing forward-thinking performance management initiatives, and cultivating a positive and engaging workplace environment. She has also championed novel DEI initiatives to help with career development, retention and talent mobility. Ms. Smith-Hill has also been instrumental in SSM Health’s initiatives to cultivate the next generation of health care workers. This includes partnering with racially and ethnically diverse professional organizations and academic institutions to develop fellowship and other training programs. In its administrative fellowship and summer administrative internship programs, 60% of participants are racially and ethnically diverse.
