Sherry Blair

Using her prodigious skills and cleverly drawing from evidence based research in the field, Sherry inspires with her passion and down to earth style to make change in your life. You will assuredly walk away feeling better and with at least one strategy to start making immediate change in your life at home, work or play. Sherry is also funny and engaging and audiences frequently feel drawn into her magnetism.

Synthesize and energize is something she notes as one of her greatest strengths. She realizes you don't always want to carve out the time to sift through the plethora of information that is available to make change in your life whether that is to help you live rationally or positively. She loves to break down concepts and to teach them so that they are easily applicable in your life.

Sherry Blair lives in Montclair, NJ since 1997. She raised her son, Michael Joseph Blair as a single parent from his birth. She put herself through college and worked as a bartender, waiter, and manager in the restaurant industry while pursuing her education. Sherry has two dogs and is currently single living her “50-licious” years enjoying happiness with family and friends. Over the last 7 years, she has spawned her creativity and is publishing books and developing products to increase happiness and positivity in all she does. She believes that innately she used her strengths to overcome many life obstacles which is why she passionately believes in spreading the message of positive psychology to help others to help themselves in all aspects of their lives.

She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Women’s Studies. She went on to obtain her Master of Science in Social Work with a concentration in Policy Analysis and International Social Welfare at Columbia University. She is dually mastered in Industrial and Organizational Psychology supporting her vision to make change at the macro level in leadership and management. Sherry teaches part-time for the University of Southern California in their virtual academic center in the Graduate School of Social Work.

Sherry’s areas of expertise are providing organizational consulting, coaching, behavioral health services, training and education. She can assist your organization through performance enhancement, management coaching, team cohesiveness and effective communication.
Sherry is a New Jersey Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Board Certified Professional Counselor and a IABMCP Professional Coach.

Sherry is one of the first 300 in the world to be trained by Dr. Martin Seligman in his Vanguard Authentic Happiness Positive Psychology Coaching Program. She is also advanced trained in evidence-based Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)/Coaching and was privileged to be trained by Albert Ellis who is considered one of the greatest psychologists ever. She is an Advanced Trainer/Certified Nurtured Heart Specialist and has served on the Ethics & Global Summit Committees for the Children’s Success Foundation and The Nurtured Heart Approach, a transformational approach that changes lives.