Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott Motivational Speaker, Life Coach and Consultant

Successfully speaking, training, consulting, and coaching , Chérie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. is a recognized leader in the field of Human Development. Dr. Chérie has been successfully speaking, coaching change & human transitions since 1974.

Hundreds of corporations and associations have been educated, entertained, and fascinated by her exceptional work in motivation, managing change, team building, leadership, customer service, management skills and life balance. Dr. Chérie embodies the principles, tools and techniques that inspire individuals to create tangible results.

Dr. Chérie’s material comes from more than two decades of research, which is condensed into her speeches and books. She is a professional who walks her talk and speaks from real-life experience. Her case histories, anecdotes, and examples of key points come directly from her hands-on support of individuals and organizations on three continents. She truly embodies what she shares with the group.

She connects with her audience in an impressive way. Her remarkable ability to uplift and inspire coupled with her extraordinary facilitation skills will touch the heart of every audience member. She is a powerful storyteller who incorporates high content with fun and humor. Chérie involves her audiences by engaging not only the heart and the mind, but also most of all the spirit. Her tools and techniques have impacted significant audiences around the world, and each participant leaves with at least one action step to deploy beyond the presentation.

Dr. Chérie uses a combination of stories, computer-graphic slides, audience interaction, humor, tools, techniques, Socratic questioning, case histories, data, and statistics. Exercises are conducted in writing, small groups, and dyads. The actual design of her presentations depends on your objectives, time frames and preferences.

As a New York Times #1 best selling author, If Life is a Game, These are the Rules: The Ten Rules for Being Human has been published in 40 countries with over two million books sold. Dr. Carter-Scott has several other published titles: If Life is a Game These are the Stories, If Love is a Game, If Success is a Game, Negaholics: How To Overcome Negativity and Turn Your Life Around, The Corporate Negaholic: How to Successfully Deal with Negative Employees, Managers, and Corporations, in addition to two self-published books: The New Species: The Evolution of the Human Being and The Inner View: A Woman’s Daily Journal.

Dr. Carter-Scott is known for her expertise in turning negative attitudes into positive behaviors. Along with her coaching and training skills, she moves her clients from doubt, confusion, and obstacles to a strategic place where clarity and vision is a choice. She is known for motivating individuals to take charge of their lives and to make the seemingly impossible happen. Dr. Carter-Scott is a master facilitator working directly with executive and management departments on vision, goals, and their mission statements for the realization of the company.

Dr. Carter-Scott received her Masters and Ph.D. from The Fielding Institute in Human & Organizational Development.

Clients: AMI, FMC, American Express, IBM, GTE, State Farm Insurance, Burger King, Silicon Graphics, and Better Homes and Gardens Magazine.

If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules ~ Ten Rules for Being Human
Dr. Chérie's signature speech! These ten rules so resonate with people around the globe that the book has been translated into over 40 languages. Worldwide audiences delight in Dr. Chérie's practical and profound, wise and witty, blend of mainstream and metaphysical truths. Dr. Chérie is a master at making you laugh and cry at the same time. Her life experience provides her with the background, and expertise to touch the hearts of every attendee. She also provides the tools, techniques, and audience participation to engage people of all ages.

If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules ~ Ten Rules for a Fulfilling Life
Dr. Chérie challenges her audiences to individually define success. She underscores that success is different from fulfillment, which comes from within. As Dr. Chérie walks her audience through the ten universal truths for success, she weaves her life and the stories of other successful people into a mosaic that beckons the audience members to become involved by looking closely at their own lives. With supportive confrontation, Dr. Chérie encourages people to reveal their reality and become empowered to make their dreams come true.

If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules ~ Ten Rules for Finding Authentic Love
The perfect spousal program that combines Dr. Chérie's style of universal truths, humor, and audience participation. Audience members find themselves nodding, laughing out loud, and elbowing the person next to them. The ten rules show building and sustaining authentic love is a delicate process that requires negotiation and communication. This program is guaranteed to delight the spouses.

Negaholics ~ How to Handle Negativity in the Workplace
If employee morale is uncertain, or unmotivated, if people are searching for direction, or if they lack satisfaction, then Dr. Chérie can help you deal with reorganizing, restructuring, downsizing... all aspects of change management, resistance to change, and helping people buy into the vision for the future. Dr. Chérie helps organizations overcome negativity and profit from it.

Passionate Leadership ~ The Future is Now!
Some leaders are born, others are made, however, Dr. Chérie teaches that leadership is a choice. Choosing to lead others comes with responsibility. The willingness to show up, stand up, and speak up for what you believe in is the challenge of leadership. Authentic leadership calls you to be connected to your essence, to embrace your values, and to embody your principles. Dr. Chérie has always been a leader, ahead of her time, and willing to go the distance.

Teambuilding ~ Teams Aren’t Born, They Are Built!
Teamwork defined as a collection of people who must rely on group
collaboration if the desired outcome is to be achieved. Teamwork is the critical difference between success and all the reasons that explain what happened. The ten qualities of effective teams rings true to anyone who has ever been on a team. The undeniable core is respect, without it, a team cannot be created. Dr. Chérie speaks from experience as one who has built corporate teams in Fortune 500 companies for over 30 yrs.

Change Management ~ Shift from Victim to Victorious
We live in the most turbulent of times. To succeed in this new millennium you must know how to deal with personal change, career change, intrinsic change, and extrinsic change. You need to be able to sort out your options, make choices and decisions, stand behind them, then trust yourself and your colleagues. Dr. Chérie teaches Change Management as an essential survival skill in the world we live in. Her work with Negaholism and the anatomy of choice, commitment, empowerment, and buy-in is groundbreaking and profound.

Customer Service ~ It can be Excellent
In a perfect world everyone would be happy and provide excellent customer service without giving it a second thought. We live in a world where "stuff" happens that we didn't anticipate, and people become stressed, and don't know what to do to get back in balance. Customer service suffers from higher expectations, reduced resources, task-saturation, multiple converging role demands, no time to "be" and the experience of a lack of time, energy or money. Dr. Chérie wrote her dissertation on the relationship between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Dr. Chérie proved conclusively with her research that there is a direct link!

In an entertaining, insightful presentation, Dr. Carter-Scott gave an uplifting talk that gave us new tools, tricks and buzzwords to overcome negative self talk. We all benefited from your presentation.

- Richard Funess,
Managing Director, Manning Selvage & Lee.

Dear Chérie,
I wanted to extend my sincere thanks for your presentation before the Santa Barbara City College Business and Industry Associates. In looking around the room during your remarks, I had noticed that our audience was locked in rapt attention, hanging on your every word. Our members certainly gained from your remarks and returned to their offices and businesses with something to think about. Again, it was a pleasure to have you join the College for this important event, and I look forward to seeing you on campus again in the near future.

- James Minow,
Associate VP for Development, Santa Barbara City College.

Just a quick note to say your speech today was excellent. You are one of the very best inspirational speakers I have ever heard. From the outset, you captured and maintained everyone's attention. A number of friends were equally impressed. It is refreshing to see a speaker not promote their own services or products, and your call to action from the audience was very well received. Thank you again for your time and thoughts.

- Randall L. Schweitzer.

On behalf of the Education & Training Committee and the members of the Association of Municipal Court Clerks of California, I would like to thank you for your outstanding presentation at our Southern Spring Conference. I was able to sit in on your "Setting realistic Goals". Not only did I receive useful information, but your demeanor made it thoroughly enjoyable. I have also heard many other enthusiastic comments. Thank you again

- Illona L. Pohlschmidt,
Co-Chair, Association of Municipal Court Clerks of California, Inc..

Thank you for your excellent presentation. The next day some of the members of the group were the applying the techniques you suggested for dealing with their fellow Negaholics. That was one of the specific goals we were trying to achieve for our membership. Everyone agreed that you have been our best speaker of the year!

- Dwayne Warren,
Program Chair, Hughes Fullerton Management Club.

Your presentation was an absolutely outstanding example of participation learning. I have used parts of your tape several times to learn from your outstanding ability o not project your thoughts into your listening. Your abilities go way beyond these methods and are invaluable.

- Don Stonebraker,
IBM.

Thanks for investing your time and sharing your knowledge with our conference attendees. Your presentation was of superior quality.

- Laurie R. Lee,
Association for Worksite Health Promotion.

Dr. Carter-Scott did a wonderful presentation for our attendees in overcoming negativity. As you can see from the evaluations, the rating of "excellent" was unanimous from all of our attendees.

- Stephanie Swarner,
National Management Association.

Your messages were heard loud and clear by my staff. I am so grateful I found you and that you were available to speak to our group. Thank you for your support, for your life's work and for speaking at our event. I am personally grateful for how I benefited from your talk.

- Maureen Ross Gemme,
The Hartford Technology Services.

Thanks for being our speaker at our monthly meeting. Everyone enjoyed your presentation, and as the meeting planner, that makes me very happy. Even the day after, everyone is walking around saying how much he or she enjoyed the evening. It was just what we needed!

- Linda Lang,
Abex Aerospace Chapter.

Thank you very much for your participation in our Classified Professional Growth Day held on May 20th. A review of the evaluation forms tells us your presentation was well received by those attending you session. You are an excellent speaker and held the interest of the audience throughout your presentation. On behalf of the classified staff and the planning team, thank you again for your time and effort given to the success of our program.

- Dorene McCracken,
Director of Classified Personnel, Santa Barbara County Education Office.

The feedback from your presentation, "You Make the Difference" was extremely positive. Daily I receive compliments about your presentation. Employees stop me in the halls to tell me what an impact your comments have had on their lives. I have also had employees call to tell me how your book speaks directly to their situation and needs. The glow from the conference has not worn off.

- Deborah Weber,
State Farm Insurance.

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your exemplary efforts on behalf of Tri-Counties Regional Center. Our Community Meetings were very successful due in large part to your excellent facilitating and interaction with the participants. The three groups were somewhat different in composition and you handled each of them with finesse, professionalism and special attention to our consumers and their input. Your positive approach, quick study and immediate availability are traits we value highly. We received many compliments on the manner in which the public input was handled. Those thanks are shared with you.

- Claudia DeMarco,
Associate Director, Tri-Counties Regional Center.

Thank you so much for your time and energy on our recent sales retreat with the focus on 'appreciation'. The time you put into our presentation, as well as your input during the discussion planning process was invaluable. I believe that bringing you into our retreat and sharing an outside viewpoint allowed our group to 'Think outside the box'. Additionally I think we achieved our goal of passing on the appreciation to our clients which will bring us a greater return on our business.

- Sue McLain,
Director of Sales, Four Seasons Biltmore.

Thank you so much for your wonderful presentation on dealing with verbal attacks for our Planned Parenthood staff. Comments about your presentation were extremely positive and I personally benefited from your suggestions on how to stay calm under pressure.

- Scott McCann, Ph.D.,
Director of Education, Planned Parenthood.

Dear Dr. Cherie and Michael Pomije,

It gives Vitallife Corporation and me great honor to document our sincere appreciation to the two of you for engineering the Change Process for Vitallife's key members. You supported both the management and physician team to become more effective professionals.

From early July, 2010 in your interviews with our management to our retreat held in August, in Thailand, we observed a marked improvement in the following areas: positive attitude, customer service procedures, systems, and a willingness to work effectively together as a team. You then initiated follow up conversations with team members that carried us through the first quarter of 2011.

The board of directors and I have witnessed the shift from non-responsive and uncooperative to positive, supportive, and engaged team players. This has clearly demonstrated your professional skills in managing change, working with challenging staff, (especially physicians) as well as dealing with cultural differences, and motivating people to change attitudes and behaviors.

What we appreciate the most is the "passion" that you and Michael have demonstrated with your Employee Owned Change: Teambuilding & Customer Service Program to our Vitallife team. The customized approach that you and Michael have extended to our team has resulted in financial growth of 80% net compared to our 2009 performance. The professional development you provided significantly impacted our manager's attitudes and our daily operations became much more efficient. The result was improved customer service in the #1 healthcare provider in Southeast Asia.

Once again, we thank you both for the tremendous contribution you have made to us. We are also grateful for the relationship that we have developed with you in successfully achieving Vitallife's corporate objectives in 2010. We will be pleased to be your official reference to any potential clients in the near future.

We look forward to your guidance to our team to meet new challenge facing us in wellness industry.

Yours sincerely,

- Anthony Jude Tan,
Chief Executive Officer.