Barbara "BJ" Gallagher Hateley


Barbara "BJ" Gallagher Hateley is an author and speaker who lives in Los Angeles, California. She writes business books, women's books, gift books, and children's books.

Biography

Hateley is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California, earning summa cum laude honors with her BA in Sociology. She has completed the coursework for a PhD in Social Ethics, also at USC.
Hateley is the former manager of training and development for the Los Angeles Times, where she was responsible for management development, sales training, customer service seminars, diversity training, specialized programs for women, and the development of high potential managers.
Hateley and her books have been featured on CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer, the Today Show with Matt Lauer, Fox News, PBS, CNN, and other television and radio programs. She is quoted almost weekly in various newspapers, women's magazines, and websites, including: , Redbook, Woman's World, Ladies Home Journal, First for Women, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Orlando Sentinel, Financial Times, the Guardian, CareerBuilder.com, MSNBC.com, ClubMom.com, SavvyMiss.com, CNN.com, among others.
In addition to writing books, Hateley also conducts seminars and delivers keynotes at conferences and professional meetings across the country. Her corporate clients include: IBM, Chevron, US Veteran's Administration, John Deere Credit Canada, Volkswagen, Farm Credit Services of America, Raytheon, US Department of Interior, Phoenix Newspapers Inc., the American Press Institute, Infiniti, Nissan, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.
BJ Gallagher is the author of 22 books, including an international best-seller, A Peacock in the Land of Penguins, now published in 22 languages worldwide, with over 300,000 copies sold. Her other books include: Why Don't I Do the Things I Know are Good for Me?, It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been, Learning to Dance in the Rain, The Best Way Out is Always Through, The World's Best Advice from the World's Wisest Women, YES Lives in the Land of NO, Who Are 'They' Anyway?, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Other Women, What Would Buddha Do?, Witty Words from Wise Women.

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