Antadius Smith
Fort Stewart,GA
Summary
Educational leader with military background in strategic planning and organizational development. Demonstrated success in creating adaptive learning environments, boosting team morale, and improving retention. Skilled in leading instructional initiatives and delivering curricula that enhance leadership skills in adult learners.
Overview
1
1
Certification
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Executive Leader/Battalion Command Sergeant Major
United States Army
Fort Stewart, GA
10.2024 - Current
- Senior executive leader of an organization with 1321 individuals assigned that serves in logistics capacity that supports over 4500 personnel.
- Directly leads senior leaders of the organization in c-suite equivalent position.
- Improved the climate of the organization by raising employee morale, resulting in positive retention.
- Informed policy updates while managing ongoing projects and budget under constrained resources.
- Trained large and small focus groups, delivering instruction to over 600 individuals during sessions.
- Mitigated risks to organizational success through regular feedback and counseling sessions with senior executives.
Senior Career Manager/ Chief Enlisted Proponent Sergeant Major
United States Army
Fort Lee, VA
04.2024 - 09.2024
- Senior HR manager for the United States Army Quartermaster Corps with over 55,000 employees.
- Managed talent acquisitions, management, and retention programs, policies, and procedures.
- Informed organization-wide employees through written correspondence on standards and procedures.
- Delivered policy updates and briefings to over 55,000 employees in-person and on-line during training sessions.
- Coordinated integration of military and private sector during Training with Industry Program, enhancing collaboration.
- Delivered policy updates and briefings to over 55,000 employees in-person and online during training sessions.
- Informed employees to the organization at large through written correspondence, standards, and procedures.
- Designed and delivered professional development seminars to support HR functions within the United States Military.
- Incorporated the adult learning model into training curriculum required to instruct the professional development model.
Senior Instructor/Sergeant Major
United States Army
Fort Lee, VA
07.2023 - 04.2024
- Academia training manager for United States Army Quartermaster Schools delivering in-person and online curriculum to over 700 initial entry training students.
- Graduated over 3000 students in FY24 and collaborated on updates to programs of instruction.
- Managed design and development of programming and facilitation sessions, conducting program evaluations to ensure effectiveness.
- Led training courses, workshops, and seminars to enhance visibility of training programs.
- Effectively communicated with adult learners to support their educational concerns.
- Functioned as a charismatic, disciplined, and empathetic leader while instructing students.
Senior Executive Leader/Sergeant Major
United States Army
Fort Bragg, VA
08.2018 - 01.2021
- Supported strategic and operational planning for senior executive organizations within United States Army.
- Trained 10,000 Soldiers in petroleum planning, leadership, and program management curriculum to enhance operational readiness.
- Delivered program of instruction to over 2500 students in-person and online on petroleum management and leadership.
- Coordinated staff leadership operations for Department of Defense in response to national disasters.
- Managed data analytics and resource management of logistical requirements for over 5000 deployed individuals.
- Advanced skills in talent management that resulted in organizations identifying, developing, and retaining high performers.
Education
Master of Science - Human Resources Management
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA12-2026
Doctorate Degree - Strategic Leadership
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA05-2025
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Leadership
Thomas Edison State University
Trenton, NJ05-2021
Master of Science - Executive Leadership
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA03-2020
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Talent acquisition
- Organizational development
- Performance evaluation
- Curriculum development
- Performance feedback
- Change leadership
- Systems thinking
- Effective communication
- Workforce planning
- Time management
- Feedback assessment
- Training program design
- Emotional intelligence
Certification
- Certified Instructor – Common Faculty Development Instructor Course, Fort Lee, VA, 09/23, 10/23
- Leadership and Workforce Development Certificate, Command and General Staff College, 08/22, 06/23
- Executive/Strategic Leadership Certificate, United States Army Sergeant Major Academy, 08/22, 06/23
- Master Logistics Leadership Certification (SOLE), Demonstrated Logistician Program Society, 05/20, 05/21
- Executive/Strategic Leadership Certificate, United States Airforce Academy, Air University, 08/20, 10/20
Community Service
Volunteer, Sergeant Audie Murphy Club, Killeen, TX, 09/15, Present, Volunteered at homeless shelters, nursing homes, and orphanages to help raise the morale of individuals., Supported the Homes for Our Troops program to help build homes for wounded warriors and disabled veterans.
Research
- Extensive research into cross-generational leadership gaps that impact leader’s behaviors which impact the success of organizations across the world. Studying the development of emotional intelligence skills with emphasis on self-awareness enables organizations to develop their leader’s overtime. Findings displayed that the higher leaders advance the less self-aware they potentially become.
- Led Senior Executive Leader Seminar – Emotional Intelligence & Self-Awareness, United States Army company grade officers, Krakow, Poland, 2025
- Led Senior Executive Leader Seminar – Emotional Intelligence & Self-Awareness, United States Army senior noncommissioned officers, Prague, Czech Republic, 2025
- Smith, A. & Smith, R. (2024). 21st Century Digital Training Enablers Transform Sustainment Capabilities. DLSTAR 38., https://mobdiv.ent.box.com/v/dlstar-newsletter/file/1551633153577
- Smith, A. (2023). An argument for developing NCOs’ self-awareness skills earlier. Army University Press., https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives/2023/December/An-Argument-for-Developing-NCOs-Self-Awareness-Skills-Earlier/
- Smith, A. (2023). Fueling change: Restructuring theater petroleum center improves for Army 2030 vision. Army Sustainment Magazine., https://www.dvidshub.net/publication/issues/66695
Timeline
Senior Executive Leader/Battalion Command Sergeant Major
United States Army
10.2024 - Current
Senior Career Manager/ Chief Enlisted Proponent Sergeant Major
United States Army
04.2024 - 09.2024
Senior Instructor/Sergeant Major
United States Army
07.2023 - 04.2024
Senior Executive Leader/Sergeant Major
United States Army
08.2018 - 01.2021
Master of Science - Human Resources Management
Liberty University
Doctorate Degree - Strategic Leadership
Liberty University
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Leadership
Thomas Edison State University
Master of Science - Executive Leadership
Liberty University