Bestselling author and renowned lifecoach Barbara Sher is ready to be more active in the European market. She will be available for workshops and speaking engagements from summer/fall 2010. After successfully having run 8 “scanner workshops” in the last few years in such lovely locations as the Greek island of Corfu and a charming medieval village near Toulouse in France she has decided to spend part of the year in Southern France. She is available for bookings for speeches, workshops, coaching-masterclasses, and seminars on her favorite topic of helping people find their passion in life and then go after it successfully. Her warm and earthy style of coaching, her 30 years of experience, her time-tested concept of “crafting your wish” and working in “successteams” to make the dream come true have been useful for thousands of people. Contact: info@barbara-sher.eu

Sher has been called the “godmother of life coaching”. Barbara has presented seminars and workshops around the world to universities, professional organizations, Fortune 100 corporations and federal and state government agencies. She also consults with clients in her New York office.

In 1972 Sher invented Success Teams—small groups in which members dedicate their efforts to helping each other find and achieve their goals. Today, Sher’s Success Teams are operating in locations across the globe. Her first book, Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want, has become a classic in its field and has sold over one million copies. It is used as a text in universities throughout the U.S. and a handbook for career counselors and coaches. Her second book, Teamworks: Building Support Groups That Guarantee Success, is a handbook for social workers, career counselors and teachers.

After consulting with thousands of people at workshops and in private sessions, Sher discovered that many of them thought they had no idea what they really wanted. She began hosting problem-solving meetings and developing dozens of powerful techniques that freed people from “goal-paralysis.” Her innovative, sensible and respectful techniques for overcoming resistance have been widely praised by psychologists and career counselors, and made her third book, I Could Do Anything if I Only Knew What It Was, a New York Times best-seller.

Barbara’s fourth book, Live the Life You Love, is a ten-lesson course that teaches, in an appealing and accessible format, the nuts-and-bolts skills needed to identify the reader’s own motivational style, find his or her dreams and achieve them. It won the top award for a motivational book by the Books for a Better Life Commission, a consortium of all major publishers.

In her fifth book, Barbara took a fresh approach to creating a great life after age forty. The book, It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life At Any Age, found such favor with people of all ages that it was made into an Emmy-nominated public television pledge special of the same name. The show became so popular that she was invited to do two more public television pledge specials—“Live the Life You Love/Map to Success” and “Barbara Sher’s Idea Party”—which are also breaking fundraising records at public television stations in dozens of cities around the U.S. during every pledge drive. Viewers call her “a standup comic with a message.”

Sher has appeared on local and national radio and television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, the Today Show, 60 Minutes and Good Morning America, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many other newspapers and magazines. In 2003 she became the Life Coach columnist for Real Simple Magazine. She has recently been on SuperCoach twice in one week and is running a 1-year coaching training out of her New York city office in 2010/2011.