Mission
To equip educators for more success in the correctional classroom. Proven strategies help you to engage your learners and know what to do. As you grow, you can more effectively promote their growth!
Safety. Growth. Outcomes.
“I provide training and consulting services that promote safety, professional growth, and program outcomes. I work with individuals, correctional institutions, and non-profit organizations. The common goal is to develop maximum competence among practitioners and quality outcomes for organizations. I have decades of experience and a track record of excellence.”
Coach Smedley
2 national awards NFTE Teacher of the Year and Ford Focus Life in Drive Cleveland, Ohio winner
40 skill-building workshops and webinars created
3,000 conference attendees trained
6,000+ industry connections on LinkedIn
Coach Smedley By The Numbers
Coach Smedley Biography
“Coach” Alisa Smedley is a training consultant who was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has extensive experience in community and facility-based programs serving a diverse group of clients including justice-involved, low-income, chemically dependent, and youth. Coach Smedley was a provider of direct services to recovering addicts through a SAMHSA-funded grant in the state of Ohio for six years. After relocating to Washington, D.C. in 2011, Coach Smedley became the coordinator of the American Job Center located inside the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, a maximum-security jail in Maryland until 2020. Coach Smedley has also developed tablet content for incarcerated students and advised community colleges on best practices for Second Chance Pell Grant education programs. In 2022 Coach Smedley joined the Board of the Maryland Career Development Association where she acts as the Membership Board Director.
Coach Smedley’s personal experience includes her father’s incarceration when she was ten years old and having six uncles and an aunt serving a combined 75 years behind bars. Coach Smedley travels around the country as a conference speaker and subject matter expert.
She is the author of Embracing Your Story: How to Build a Great Life Out of Hardships about childhood poverty and the effects of parental incarceration. Coach Smedley also publishes industry training materials. She lives in Albany, New York.