{{Short description|American author, lecturer, and memory expert}} {{Infobox person | name = Howard Bradley Smith | image = | caption = Howard Bradley Smith with daughter, Karen | birth_date = 1894 | birth_place = Ong, Nebraska | death_date = 1894 | occupation = author, lecturer, educator, memory expert | spouse = Myrtle Adee (m. 1920; div) Elisabeth Ross (m. 1936) | children = {{unbulleted list | Ivan (b. 1922) | Gregg (b. 1931) | Karen (b. 1937) }} }}

'''Howard Bradley Smith''' was an author,<ref name="smith">{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Howard |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=41015065&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=How To Remember Names and Faces |publisher=The Hensley co. |year=1941 |location=Chicago}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> lecturer<ref name="carnegie">{{Cite news |date=September 1959 |title=The Dale Carnegie Story |page=45 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/phoenix-arizona-republic-sep-13-1959-p-45/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014211021/https://newspaperarchive.com/phoenix-arizona-republic-sep-13-1959-p-45/ |archive-date=October 14, 2020}}</ref> and memory expert.<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 19, 1964|title=A discussion on "How To Remember Names and Faces"|page=70|work=The Indianapolis Star|location=Indianapolis, Indiana}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=March 18, 1947|title=Memory Expert Pleases 150 At Annual C. of C. Banquet|page=1|work=Logansport Press|location=Logansport, Indiana}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=April 23, 1964|title=News Items of Local Interest|page=10|work=Rushville Republican}}</ref>

With the post–World War II economic expansion requiring improved bureaucratic organization,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Joyce |first1=Thompson Heames |last2=Harvey |first2=Michael |year=2006 |title=The Evolution of the Concept of the Executive |url=https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/sites/dsa/files/Evolution%20of%20Executive%20to%2021st%20Century%20Global%20Leader.pdf |journal=Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=31 |doi=10.1177/10717919070130020301|s2cid=143979427 }}</ref> Smith authored two books focused on the new pursuit of "executive skills":&nbsp;''How to Remember Names and Faces''<ref name="smith" /> and ''Developing Your Executive Ability''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Howard |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/46006809 |title=Developing Your Executive Ability |publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Company |year=1946 |location=New York |lccn=46006809 |access-date=2020-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014211025/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=46006809&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=2020-10-14 |url-status=live}}</ref> From the 1940s through the 1960s, under the banner of the Redpath Lecture Bureau (previously Boston Lyceum Bureau), he made lecture appearances demonstrating a mnemonic approach to remembering names and faces. During the late 1950s he lectured on improved executive skills and memory for the Dale Carnegie Institute.<ref name="carnegie" />

== Early life, marriage, and family == Smith was born in Ong, Nebraska in 1894 and attended Peru State College, where he received his A.B. and M.Ed. and served as editor of The Peru Normalite.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 29, 1916 |title=Editors |page=2 |work=The Peru Normalite }}</ref> Smith moved to Chicago in 1920 where he married Mildred Adee and had two sons, Ivan Smith (b. 1922) and Gregg Smith (b. 1931). In 1936 he married Elisabeth Ross and had a daughter, Karen (b. 1937).

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