Loretta LaRoche Biography

Loretta LaRoche has helped people deal with everyday stress for over thirty years. With irreverent humor and an innate sense of the absurd, she helps people see how needlessly complex and stressful our lives can become. Her wit, wisdom and humor is a common-sense view of life that leaves audiences inspired, motivated and roaring with laughter. An often irreverent, always hilarious keynote speaker and lecturer, she helps people discover how thoughts, feelings and behaviors can affect work performance, relationships, success and self-worth. LaRoche shows how humor can benefit the health of an organization and its employees, and improve productivity in the workplace.

An international consultant and lecturer in the field of stress management, LaRoche is widely known as star of five Emmy Award-winning specials on PBS, with 80 specials in total. She has appeared as a guest-expert on CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC networks.

Through hilarious anecdotes and practical exercises, her best-selling book Relax - You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left, introduces the power of humor to overcome stress in everyday life. She has written six books, with her newest one titled Kick Up Heels Before Your Too Short To Wear Them.

LaRoche 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.

Every year, LaRoche conducts over 150 lectures, seminars and training workshops, for healthcare professionals, hospitals, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Clients include NASA, FAA, IRS, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, MD Anderson Medical Center, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Dun & Bradstreet. At the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, she teams up with Joan Borysenko, mind/body scientist, clinician and teacher for a series of weekend conferences for women.

An adjunct faculty member at The Mind/Body Medical Institute of Boston, affiliated with Beth Israel and Harvard Medical School, she is a contributing writer to The Wellness Book by Dr. Herbert Benson, Mind/Body Medical Institute. She has been published in many magazines and newspapers, including USA Today, The Boston Globe, First, Woman's Day and Self. Her weekly column, “Get a Life,” is published every Monday in The Patriot Ledger's Lifestyle section.

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