Devon Smiley

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About Devon Smiley

Negotiation & Commercial Consultant for founders and their teams. I've closed $5 billion of commercial contracts as a lead negotiator and worked with hundreds of founders around the world. This experience is distilled into actionable guidance for startups and scaleups that are focused on securing strong commercial results without sacrificing relationships. This is commercial growth and negotiation done differently. Collaborative, not competitive. Big picture, not tunnel vision. Results-focused and impact-driven. Industry agnostic, I've helped teams across SaaS, IoT, FinTech, DeepTech, digital, consumer goods markets (just to name a few) sign the right deals, expand their revenue and margins, increase efficiencies and cultivate strong relationships with their partners, clients and investors. My engagement with accelerator and incubator programmes globally includes Expert-in-Residence roles with Imperial College Enterprise Lab in London, HEC Paris Incubator at StationF, and Ryerson DMZ in Toronto. My insights on negotiation have been featured in The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. A strong believer that negotiation benefits more than just the bottomline, I'm honoured to have worked with pro bono partners including The Clinton Foundation and UN Women to lead negotiation skills training for their teams and How we can work together Accelerators & Incubators >> Masterclasses, Expert-in-Residence, Cohort Coaching Founders >> Coaching and Mentorship Startups & Scaleups >> Consulting, Workshops, Team Coaching Get in touch at devon@devonsmiley.com and learn more at