Cheryl Joy O'Donoghue

Cheryl Joy O'Donoghue serves her clients as a business prosperity and human potential coach, consultant and motivational speaker. She works closely with senior executives and entrepreneurs across all industries, with a special focus on the financial services, healthcare and the training and performance improvement vertical markets. She is Founder and CEO of Business Insights - a consciousness raising consultancy practice to help executives make better business decisions and improve organizational productivity using unconventional performance improvement methods, including joy, laughter, intuition...and Quantum Physics. Business Insights was founded in 2000. She serves as a catalyst, executive guide and sounding board, helping her clients in areas such as: personal and professional development; organizational development; business strategy and marketing; as well relationship management (with clients, employees and the public).

In 2006, Cheryl founded The Joy, Laughter & Intuition Institute, a charitable, humanitarian organization dedicated to bringing joy, laughter, and intuition workshops to community groups and non-profits with limited financial budgets for training and development. Accomplishments: Cheryl has 25 year's experience working in and with large- and mid-sized businesses in organizational development and marketing. Before establishing Business Insights in 2000, she held the position of Executive Vice President in Charge of Operations for Financial Training Resources/Frontline Group - a sales, service and management training firm - and before that served as the organization's Senior Vice President in Charge of Strategic Marketing. She also has 7 year's experience as a Division Marketing Director for The First National Bank of Chicago (now known as Chase Bank). She has a Master of Science degree in Adult Business Education from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from North Central College where she double majored in Business and Communications. Ms. O'Donoghue successfully completed a certificate program in Non-Profit Management, is a Certified Laughter Leader and a member of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Cheryl is an accomplished researcher, author, professional speaker and the creator of JOY!9to5© -- a series of corporate workshops designed to help participants create more energizing, supportive and joyful work environments, leading to higher levels of organizational productivity and profitability. She is the creator of a workshop to develop intuition in the workplace called Business Insights©, as well as a series of public workshops - Laughter & Joy...Just for the Health of It! © and Laughter & Joy Quorums© - which combine laughter exercises and motivational "joy tips" to provide numerous wellness benefits for all people of all ages. In her free time, Cheryl is a professional theatre and voiceover actor. Her 2007 performances to date, include "Ms. History" in the Hidden Talent Theatre Company's production of Gerald Bell's Who's Crazy Now? And "Olive Madison" in Theatre in the Woods' production of The Odd Couple (Female Version).