BJ GALLAGHER is an inspirational author and speaker. She writes business books that educate and empower, women’s books that enlighten and entertain, gift books that inspire and inform, and kids’ books that charm and delight. Whether her audience is corporate executives, working women, or a group of giggling youngsters, her message is powerful, positive and practical. BJ’s international best-seller, A Peacock in the Land of Penguins, has sold over 300,000 copies in 22 languages. Her additional books include It’s Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been, Why Don’t I Do the Things I Know are Good for Me?, Learning to Dance in the Rain, The Best Way Out is Always Through, Oh, Thank Goodness, It’s Not Just Me!, Oil for Your Lamp, Friends, The Road to Happiness, The Power of Positive Doing, The Power of One, and The Leadership Secrets of Oz.

BJ 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 has been quoted in various newspapers, women’s magazines, and websites, including: O the Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Woman’s World, Ladies Home Journal, First for Women, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Orlando Sentinel, Financial Times (U.K.), The Guardian (U.K.), CareerBuilder.com, MSNBC.com, and CNN.com.

In addition to writing books, BJ also conducts seminars and delivers keynotes at conferences across the country. Her clients include: IBM, Chevron, U.S. Veterans Administration, John Deere Credit Canada, Volkswagen, Farm Credit Services of America, Raytheon, U.S. Department of Interior, Phoenix Newspapers Inc., The American Press Institute, Infiniti, Nissan, U.S. Army, and Atlanta Journal Constitution, among others.