About Tyrome

25 Years Building Innovation Programs That Ship

I bring more than 25 years across innovation, entrepreneurship, organizational change, and leadership to whatever you are working on.

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I work across the lines that slow change.

Founders and funders often speak past each other. Strategy can ignore culture. Institutional plans can lose contact with daily work. I help you connect those parts and decide what to do next.

My career spans government, higher education, corporate innovation, startup advising, ecosystem development, and executive coaching. I use that range to help you make sense of a complex system without losing sight of the people inside it.

Through Go In Now, LLC, I advise founders, agencies, universities, and companies on customer discovery, business-model design, non-dilutive capital, strategic partnerships, and organizational change.

Choose your path.

Advisory

Get focused counsel for your venture, organization, or innovation ecosystem.

Speaking

Bring a practical conversation about innovation, leadership, or strategy to your audience.

Writing

Read what I am thinking about strategy, entrepreneurship, hope, and change.

Where the work is on the record.

Boards, advisory roles, and appointments I hold or have held, each verifiable at the source.

Federal advisory boardNIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Former member of a federally chartered advisory board on US manufacturing competitiveness.

Advisory boardSXSW Pitch Advisory Board, 2025

Named to the advisory board that shapes the SXSW Pitch startup competition.

State innovation ecosystemTEDCO BRIDGE Advisor

One of three advisors supporting inclusive entrepreneurship across Maryland.

Nonprofit leadershipThe Common Mission Project

Director of Partnerships for the Hacking for Defense and mission-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Program leadershipThruline Networks

Program manager at an impact-investment firm focused on resilient infrastructure, food, and health systems.

Policy councilStimson Center

Member of the Loomis Innovation Council on technology policy and innovation ecosystems.

FellowshipA.K. Rice Institute Fellow

Recognized for more than 20 years of group relations and organizational consulting.

Accelerator mentorFounder Institute Turkey

Revenue and business model panel judge for the Spring 2023 cohort.

UniversityBowie State University

Entrepreneur in Residence, and now Manager of Strategic Partnerships.

Engaging potential, creating possibilities.
Tyrome Smith, summarising his own work on Voltage Control

The work started somewhere unusual.

Before the federal programs and the university partnerships, I was a police officer. It is not a detour in the story. It is where the interest in human and organizational systems began.

I was working not just with adjudicated children, but with psychiatrically unwell children, and I was watching things that I didn't quite understand.
Tyrome Smith, Wellspring

That question, why people and institutions behave the way they do under pressure, is the through line from there to group relations consulting, to organizational development, and to the innovation work I do now.

It was a wonderful experience. It taught me a lot about how humans develop, and how they understand the world.
Tyrome Smith, Wellspring

Hear the perspective before you reach out.

These profiles and conversations show how I think about innovation, leadership, and the systems around both.

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