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About Jackson Summit

Built to Outlastthe People Who Built It

Jackson Summit is an outsourced sales and marketing firm in Shreveport, Louisiana. We represent major brands face to face, and we grow the people who do that work into the leaders who run it.

01The Mission

Business as a Vehicle, Not a Scoreboard

Most firms measure a year in revenue. We measure it in the people who went further than they thought they could, and the communities that are better off because we showed up in them.

That is not a soft position. Brands grow when the people representing them are sharper, hungrier and better led than the alternative. Developing people is the strategy, not the perk.

Jackson Summit exists to prove that business can be about more than revenue. It can be a vehicle for opportunity, leadership, service, family, and legacy.
Mackenzie Smith, President
02The Legacy

A Name We Intend to Carry a Long Way

I want everything we build to represent the strength, love, values, and impact she left behind.
Mackenzie Smith, President

Jackson Summit was created to keep Debbie present in the work. Her strength, her values, and the way she treated people are the standard the company is held to.

We do not treat that as a memorial. We treat it as a bar. Every person developed here, every market opened, every community served is the legacy continuing — not a tribute to it.

03Where We're Going

Shreveport First. Not Shreveport Only.

Growth here is not a land grab. A new market opens when we have a leader ready to run it — not before.

01

Build the Bench

Every market we open is staffed by people we trained ourselves. That is the constraint we accept, and the reason the model holds.

02

Open the Market

A new city gets a leader who has already done the work, not a manager flown in to learn it on the client's time.

03

Leave It Better

We measure a market by what the community got out of us being there, not only by what we got out of it.

04Leadership

Meet the People Climbing

A small team, growing on purpose. Everyone here is being developed for something bigger than the role they walked in with.

Mackenzie Smith headshot

Mackenzie Smith

President

Mackenzie Smith was born in South Georgia and grew up watching her mom and dad build an incredible sales company from the ground up. From an early age, she was surrounded by entrepreneurship, leadership, and the impact a strong business can have on people.

At 15, her life changed when her mother passed away unexpectedly, and her family later lost the business that had shaped so much of her childhood.

Instead of letting that chapter define her, Mackenzie became determined to rewrite her family’s story and make sure her mother’s name and legacy were never forgotten.

With a competitive background in soccer and other contact sports, plus a personality people always joked could “talk to a brick wall & be happy,” sales and marketing became a natural fit. Today, Mackenzie is building Jackson Summit with a mission to create opportunities, develop people, impact her community, and continue the legacy that inspired her from the beginning.

Outside of business, she’s a proud cat mom to Nacho and Kiki.

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Office Crew

Mackenzie's cats, Nacho and Kikis, run the office on their own schedule.

  • Nacho, an orange tabby cat, curled up

    Nacho

  • Kikis, a grey tabby cat, asleep

    Kikis

06Your Move

Have What It Takes?

We are hiring people who want to be developed, and partnering with brands that want a team in the field who actually cares.