Rose City SHRM October 2025 Monthly Meeting

Unlock Team Potential Through the Science of Teamwork

Bring science to teamwork in this session introducing the Belbin Team Roles framework. Take the guesswork out of productive collaboration by learning to identify your natural strengths, understand others’ roles, and apply practical strategies to boost team performance. Packed with actionable insights and real-world examples, you’ll leave ready to build more effective, balanced, and high-performing teams. (Complementary Belbin Team Roles assessment included.)

DeeDee Smartt Lynch & Mike Lynch, Smartt Strategies

DeeDee Smartt Lynch, President, Smartt Strategies

DeeDee Smartt Lynch is an international expert in team development and team coaching with over 30 years of professional experience. As President of Smartt Strategies, she empowers individuals and teams to collaborate more effectively and achieve measurable results, leveraging her deep expertise in Belbin Team Roles. As a Certified Belbin Trainer for North America and the UK, DeeDee has delivered hundreds of Belbin trainings, co-authored the Belbin Chapter in the Handbook of Communication Training (Routledge, 2019), and presented at the 2024 Belbin International Conference in Cambridge, UK.

She has provided team coaching, training and executive coaching that includes extensive work with the U.S. Department of Defense and Navy and prominent organizations including Ingersoll Rand, Campari, SkinCeuticals (L’Oréal), Marriott Int’l., Xerox, USPS Managerial Leadership, Eli Lilly, and many others. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communications from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mike Lynch, Vice President of Operations / Director of Project Management Team Training

Mike Lynch brings 40 years of senior project management and design engineering experience in the nuclear industry. He has managed projects worldwide, including serving as VP Project Manager on a $2.4B project—and holds multiple company records for on-time, on-budget project completions.

A pioneer in applying Belbin Team Roles to optimize team performance, Mike has consistently transformed project teams into high-performing, cohesive, balanced units through data-driven approaches to interaction and collaboration. Mike holds a B.Sc. in Applied Physics from Liverpool Polytechnic and an M.Sc. in Engineering Project Management from Lancaster University. He is a Chartered Engineer in the U.K. and a corporate member of the Institute of Electrical Technology. He co-authored the Belbin chapter in Handbook of Communication Training (Routledge, 2019) and authored the Smartt Strategies Project Managers Handbook.

For any questions about the event, or to suggest new content for meetings, please reach out to Broderick McGee at president@rosecityshrm.com.