Loretta is an international stress management and humor consultant whose wit, and irreverent humor, has, for over 30 years raised the humor potential in all of us. She is a member of faculty at the Mind/Body Medical Center in Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She writes a weekly newspaper column called, ‘Get a Life.’ She is a contributing writer for Diane Magazine (Rodale Press). She is also featured as a stress management expert on LLuminari.com, a community wellness website. She is founder and president of The Humor Potential, Inc, a company offering programs and products for life style management. Her special brand of optimistic psychology has an incontestable positive effect on the health of all that are exposed to her. Organizations worldwide use Loretta‘s prescription for laughter to manage stress in the workplace and improve morale. Loretta’s energetic meeting openings, trainings, and keynotes serve to improve learning skills and put a room in an enthusiastic frame of mind. Corporate clients such as IBM, The New York Times, Fidelity Investments and NASA, just to name a few, have used her material to defeat stress in the workplace. She is also a well-recognized TV personality on PBS and best selling author. She has had six one-women television specials air in 80 PBS stations across the country. She has been nominated for local and prime time Emmy Awards, has appeared on CNN, ABC and NBC affiliates. She has authored five books, "The Joy Journal," "Happy Talk," "Relax: You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left," "Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal," and, "Life Is Short- Wear Your Party Pants." Titles The Joy of Stress (Finding the Bless in the Mess) How to Prevent Hardening of the Attitude (Reducing Stress in the Workplace) Love, Laughter and Lasagna (A Recipe for a Positive Outlook) Whine, Women and Song (The Wit and Wisdom of Womanhood) Parenting With Humor (Is It Possible?) Life Is Not A Stress Rehearsal (Bringing Yesterday’s Sane Lifestyle Into Today’s Insane World) Life Is Short - Wear Your Party Pants (10 Simple Truths That Lead to an Amazing Life) Authentic Happiness: It Takes Courage to be Happy Topics Humor, Stress, Women Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $15,000 or more Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State MA Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.