So much of school, work, and life requires you to please other people. Other people’s expectations can feel like a huge weight. If you face attention, learning or organization challenges, you may feel anxious or misunderstood, and not know how to try differently. As a Learning Specialist, Executive Coach, Speaker, and Author (Writer), I address the education needs of students from kindergarten through graduate school as well as the business development needs of executive clients in one-on-one sessions and in groups.
Sherri Fisher has worked with 1000’s of clients. She has the skills and experience to translate your potential into a more skilled, happier, more resilient, more successful you. She will support you to uncover your hidden strengths and will co-create meaningful, sustainable success strategies to unleash your full potential. Sherri supports clients live and online. See what clients say.
Sherri studied the social-emotional basis of success at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree there. She is a multi-term board member of the MAPP Alumni Association. It is her privilege to be a student and colleague of the top researchers and practitioners in this growing field.
As a learning specialist and Positive Education expert, Learn & Flourish Director Sherri Fisher unleashes the potential of bright clients who have learning, attention and executive function challenges. Sherri reveals and leverages client strengths and success patterns, helps clients grow academically, emotionally and professionally, and guides them to flourish at school, work and life.
Sherri’s personalized approach integrates the latest research-based soft skills of self-regulation and well-being with best practice learning and skills development. She co-creates personalized success strategies for student and young adult clients who procrastinate and underperform despite their abilities. Parents and employers benefit from her sensitivity to practical concerns and context. Inquire about executive function solutions for:
Students K-8 Stop. Switch. Start.™
High School From Procrastinator to Producer™
Young Adults Three Rules for Adulting™
Parents Executive Functions at Home
Employers Employee Executive Coaching
“I have never met a learning specialist/educator with so much knowledge, compassion and drive for doing what is right for students. Sherri is loving and clear at a time when many parents are fraught with anxiety, denial or anger. Parents feel that she understands their student and they trust her to guide them through a potentially daunting experience of referrals, testing and follow through.”
— P.W., teacher
“Although our children have had excellent teachers, no one but Sherri has so quickly and accurately understood their needs, both educationally and emotionally. She consistently surprises us by exquisitely articulating their sources of difficulty and having a seemingly inexhaustible set of positive interventions.”
— J.T. and E.T., parents
“Sherri was able to create an alliance with our son, with us, and with his teachers that bridged the gap between his school’s holistic teaching style and his need for linear, sequential and structured learning. We maintained a relationship with Sherri throughout his schooling and he now has earned his PhD in physics.”
— B.R., Parent
“I made it to college only to end up on academic probation. Learning how to use my powers for good when I have always felt that I was barely getting by—that is the secret sauce of life for people like me who struggled for years in school. I’m so glad I met you, Sherri. Belief in myself happened in little steps at a time. But you always believed. I am so grateful for that.”
— S.R., Student
Community Well-Being Initiatives
Sherri coaches visionary leaders, influencers who want to bring well-being community wide so that everyone benefits. One example is the Maroondah Positive Education Network. Learn how Sherri’s community leader coaching multiplies impacts.
Sherri’s book, Positive Edge Journal, commissioned by the Oceania National Olympic Committee/Oceania Australia Foundation, provides a shared well-being literacy language for communities. The Journal is also included in Geelong Grammar School’s Positive Education Institute course “Discovering Positive Education”, in athlete groups at Monash University, and throughout Oceania. In the US? Unleash Your Epic Self is the American version.
Solopreneurs: I am a co-founder of a virtual incubator and can help you incubate an idea into a livelihood. I’ve been a business owner for 35 years and would love to help fast track your dream. We use design thinking for your idea and coach you to incubate your early-stage business.
Sherri is a speaker and workshop leader in higher education, at live and virtual professional conferences, and in the community. She has spoken to the University of Pennsylvania Imagination Institute; VIA Institute on Character; Communities of Wellbeing/Maroondah Vic AU; Universidad Iberoamericana/Mexico City Positive Psychology Program; Canadian Positive Psychology Association; International Positive Psychology Association; UN World Day of Happiness; Universidad TecMilenio/Monterrey, and the International Positive Education Network.
Sherri is co-author of this popular positive education book. Transform your home and school with the SMART Strengths approach. Grade-leveled appendix of activities.
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Appreciate, explore and expand your use of character strengths! An all-star cast of 30+ Positive Psychology writers and editors, plus original illustrations.
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Some people are challenged by life events and and become stronger, more grateful and more successful in their lives. What can we learn from them that can make your life better? This collection answers these questions and more.
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Explore the benefits and practices of gratitude! Sixteen authors from three continents bring practical suggestions based on the latest research.
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Sherri Fisher is the principal author and architect of Positive Edge Journal: A Year of Flourishing. Look inside for 52 bite-sized, research-based, positive, personalized lessons. Learn, Grow, Flourish, and Reflect on your life’s adventures for a happier, more resilient, and measurably more successful you. Designed for individuals/Most powerful in groups.
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