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Barbara "BJ" Gallagher Hateley (born 1949) is an author and speaker who lives in Los Angeles, California. She writes business books, women's books, gift books, and children's books. [1]
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.[ citation needed ]
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: O: The Oprah Magazine , 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 (U.K.), the Guardian (U.K.), CareerBuilder.com, MSNBC.com, ClubMom.com, SavvyMiss.com, CNN.com, among others.[ citation needed ]
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. [ citation needed ]
BJ Gallagher went back to her maiden name (Gallagher) in 2002, so most of her 30+ books are under that name, including an international best-seller, A Peacock in the Land of Penguins (Berrett-Koehler; 20th anniversary edition 2015), now published in 23 languages worldwide, with over 400,000 copies sold. Her other books include: Why Don't I Do the Things I Know are Good for Me? (Berkley; 2009), It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been (Viva Editions; 2009), Learning to Dance in the Rain (Simple Truths; 2009), The Best Way Out is Always Through (Simple Truths; 2009), The World's Best Advice from the World's Wisest Women (Insight Editions; 2009), YES Lives in the Land of NO (Berrett-Koehler; 2006), Who Are 'They' Anyway? (Dearborn; 2004), Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Other Women (Conari; 2002), Being Buddha at Work (Berrett-Koehler; 2015), Witty Words from Wise Women (Andrews McMeel; 2001), "The Leadership Secrets of Oz" (Simple Truths), and "Your Life Is Your Prayer" (Mango Publishing; 2019).
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