---
id: "entity-heidi-smith"
type: "entity"
entityType: "person"
canonicalName: "Heidi Smith"
source_timestamps: ["¶2"]
tags: ["author", "researcher", "ghsmart"]
related: ["entity-ghsmart", "framework-pe-ceo-capabilities"]
speakers: ["Heidi Smith"]
sources: ["tail2"]
isSpeakerEntity: true
---
## Segment 2 — tail2

## Article 120 — a120

# Heidi Smith

**Profile / role:** A co-author of the source HBR article and part of the [[entity-ghsmart-d120|ghSmart]] research team. Listed among the source's authorial voices rather than as an interviewed CEO.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:** shares authorship of the [[framework-pe-ceo-capabilities|five crucial capabilities framework]] and the underlying five-year, 491-executive assessment study. No individually distinguished quote is attributed to her in the extraction; entity retained for cross-vault speaker resolution. (Distinct from [[entity-samantha-smith|Samantha Smith]], also a co-author.)