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Bertice Berry, Ph.D

Author, Lecturer, Sociologist, Bertice Berry Productions, Inc.

Sociologist, Bertice Berry, PhD. is a best-selling author and award-winning lecturer who has been named Lecturer of the Year and Entertainer of the Year.


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Based out of: Georgia

Biography

Sociologist, Bertice Berry, PhD. is a best-selling author and award-winning lecturer who has been named Comedian of The Year, Lecturer of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. She has published 11 best-selling books in both fiction and non-fiction and has won numerous awards and accolades for both her writing and presentations.

Berry has had her own nationally syndicated television show and has hosted, interviewed, and made numerous television, documentary, and radio appearances on a variety of diverse venues including The Tonight Show, Oprah Winfrey, Between The Lions, Crossfire, 20-20, NPR, PBS and Comedy Central and CBN.

Berry has used her unique gifts and talents as a writer and ghostwriter for others on a wide range of topics including race and gender issues, sociological studies, stratification, healthcare reform, humor, spirituality, sexuality, slavery, and the abolitionist movement, weight loss and wellness, relationships, servant leadership, transformational leadership, diversity, and love.

Berry has led parades, had classrooms named after her, and has been awarded over 10 honorary doctorates. She earned her doctoral degree from Kent State University at the age of 26 and still sees her most fulfilling achievement and role in life as that of mother to her 5 adopted children.

“If you ain’t dead, you ain’t done,” a character in one of Berry’s novels says.

Berry believes that every one of us has been given a unique purpose and it is our obligation to find it and use it to improve first our self and then for those we live and work with.

Themes

  • Effective Story Telling for Business, Life and Love

  • Becoming the Highest Version of The Self

  • Total Wellness-Spirit, Mind and Body Why, Me, Here, Now? Living a Life of Purpose

  • Peace in a Time of Turmoil: A Case for Diversity and Inclusion

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