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Profile

Sheila Pearl ,  M.S.W.

Seminar Leader, Keynote Speaker, Life Coach and Author Sheila Pearl has been teaching in the classroom, on the platform and in the Board Room for the past 40 years. She is a seasoned performing artist, at home in the television studio, radio station, on the stage, or in the conference room, having performed and presented to audiences small and large since she was five years old.

Ms. Pearl, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in the mid-60's, holds multiple degrees in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She has been a family therapist and spiritual leader in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan for 30 years. She is currently in private practice in life coaching with offices in New York and New Jersey.  Her coaching practice is “global”, coaching clients worldwide, on the phone. She has been a staff coach since 2005 with Neale Donald Walsch's teaching team in his “Life Skills” education programs.

Born and raised in California, Ms. Pearl began her performing career at the age of five, singing on the radio with her parents; while in high school, she was engaged both in musical performance activities as well as involved with the debating team, travelling throughout the Southwest.  While in her undergraduate studies, she performed with the San Francisco Opera's “Talent Bank”, speaking before community audiences about opera, while also performing operatic scenes. She has earned a reputation of being an "exciting teacher" for students of all ages, and an educator for young people as well as adults.  For the past three decades, Ms. Pearl has facilitated Seminars and Workshops in schools, churches, synagogues, colleges, and in the corporate sector throughout the tri-state area of New York/New Jersey/Connecticut, as well as globally, including Holland, England, Sweden, Israel, and various parts of the United States, in addition to the Eastcoast.

Ms. Pearl's Keynotes, Seminars and Workshop topics range from motivational, inspirational, mind-expanding, practical and hands-on business tools to transformational positive psychology and coaching wisdom.  Recent Keynotes and Workshops presentations have included a Family Caregiver Conference sponsored by Jewish Family Services of Upstate New York, a Women's “Goddess” Conference at Sullivan Community College in New York, and a Symposium for the National Multiple Scerosis Society in New York.

Ms. Pearl easily adapts to each assignment for her Keynote, Seminar and Workshop presentations, whether they require her to research issues related to Multiple Sclerosis or a spiritually-based subjects such as consciousness-raising tools, or business-focused topics such as keys to success in reaching goals. Her rich life experience, varied tapestry of education and professional training, coupled with her earthy sense of humor and common-sense approach to life's most challenging aspects places Sheila Pearl in a unique class of Trainers and Speakers.

She is a co-author in WAKE UP WOMEN BE: Happy, Healthy & Wealthy; she is also co-author with Laura Moritz of The Winning Connection—A Networker's Guide to Wealth-Building Synergistic Relationships, with Foreword by Bob Proctor.  Sheila is the author of STILL LIFE: A Spiritual Guidebook for Family Caregivers, released as an audio book on CD as well. Her forthcoming book LOOKING FOR THE GIFT: Wisdom Conversations on Being in Love with Your Life, with Foreword by Neale Donald Walsch.

Sheila was married for 32 years to Rabbi Aaron Pearl, who passed in 2005.  She is stepmother to Aaron's two grown children and has five grandchildren. She is retired as spiritual leader of two congregations – one in Franklin Lakes New Jersey and the other in Newburgh, New York. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York and travels often to California to visit family in both Southern California and the San Francisco Bay area.