Grounded in experience. Driven by purpose.
Founded by Julie Smithwick, Community Focused builds on two decades of experience in community health, organizational leadership, and national network-building.
Turning values into action.
Community Focused, LLC partners with service leaders, nonprofit organizations, and foundations to build strong, sustainable, and community-rooted impact. The most effective leadership is grounded in authenticity — where strategy, culture, and community connection come together to create meaningful, lasting change.
Julie has guided organizations through start-up, expansion, and transformation with a focus on equity, trust, and collaboration. As a leadership coach and consultant, she helps people and teams turn values into action through strategic visioning, authentic partnership, and intentional growth.
Authenticity
Leadership that aligns what you do with who you actually are.
Trust
Built slowly, in real relationships, before any strategy can stick.
Community voice
The people closest to the work hold the wisdom worth following.
Sustainable impact
Change that outlasts the project — and the founder.
A leader who's most herself outside her comfort zone.
Well-traveled and forever curious — she's lived overseas for years, chases long hikes and live music, finds her calm in meditation, and will absolutely out-dance you to anything from the 80s.
Notes from the road & the work
Reflections on leadership, community, and what travel keeps teaching me. No noise.
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