S5:148 VIDEO🎙️ LIVE with Kathryn Chitwood

S5:148🎙️ LIVE with Kathryn Chitwood
Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ – Season 5, Episode 148

Building Systems That Heal: Leadership, Innovation, and Making Smiles Happen

Mark your calendars!

I’m excited to welcome Kathryn Chitwood—systems architect, entrepreneur, and Founder of the Making Smiles Happen Foundation—for what promises to be a fascinating conversation about leadership, innovation, and the courage to challenge the status quo.

📅 Wednesday, July 8, 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM PT (San Francisco, CA / Usk, WA) | 2:00 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

Kathryn’s leadership journey is anything but conventional. She began her career as a beauty professional and educator before reinventing herself as a nonprofit founder and systems thinker. Inspired by her family’s personal healthcare experience, she founded the Making Smiles Happen Foundation, an organization exploring innovative ways to connect hospitality, technology, and philanthropy to expand access to life-changing oral healthcare.

Her work invites an important leadership question:

What if our greatest opportunities aren’t found by working harder within broken systems—but by reimagining the systems themselves?

Whether you’re leading sailors, cybersecurity teams, startups, nonprofits, or global enterprises, this conversation will challenge you to think differently about innovation, purpose, and service.

💡 What You Will Learn…

✅ How personal adversity can become the foundation for purpose-driven leadership

✅ Why great leaders solve systems—not just symptoms

✅ The power of systems thinking in solving complex organizational challenges

✅ Lessons learned from building a nonprofit from the ground up

✅ How technology, transparency, and trust can strengthen mission-driven organizations

✅ Leadership principles for turning bold ideas into meaningful action

✅ Why innovation often begins with asking better questions

✅ Practical advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, military leaders, and technology professionals seeking to create lasting impact

As a cybersecurity executive and Information Warfare Commander in the U.S. Navy, I’ve learned that leadership isn’t simply about managing today’s operations—it’s about designing better systems for tomorrow. I’m looking forward to exploring Kathryn’s unique perspective on leadership, service, innovation, and building organizations that strive to improve people’s lives.

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👇 Your Turn:

➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode?

➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, entrepreneur, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

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