Nicole Smith
Harvard Business Review Editorial Audience DirectorNicole D. Smith is the editorial audience director for Harvard Business Review, where she and her team create strategies to sustain, build, and find new digital readership and audiences. Prior to HBR, Nicole was the arts and entertainment editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She also has held social media strategist roles for Time, Inc.’s Essence magazine and Bounce TV, and worked as a video journalist at CNN in a role that included curating user-generated content.
Nicole is active in several organizations, including the Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University, the mentoring program Girl Talk, Inc. and tech training organization Per Scholas. She earned an MA in Education and Human Development, with a focus on Organizational Leadership and Learning, from The George Washington University. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Georgia and is originally from Ohio.
