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Sherri Fisher

 

Member profile details

First name
Sherri
Last name
Fisher
MAPP Graduation Year
2006
 

Personal information

Bio
As a pioneering graduate of the inaugural UPenn MAPP program, I bring decades of expertise as a coach, consultant, educator, and author. My practice delivers Strategic Solutions for High-Ability, Complex Learners and Business Intelligence for Complex Talent and Teams, serving high-potential individuals, multi-generational families, and leadership.

I challenge the myth that gritty effort is the most valuable solution to underachievement. My personalized approach equips clients to reimagine limiting beliefs and create sustainable action plans tailored to their natural tendencies and contexts. Refined over decades, my methodology integrates neuropsychology, executive function optimization, positive psychology, and evidence-based motivational strategies, including proprietary frameworks like POS-EDGE® and The Three Gifts of Motivation™. This enables clients to “Activate Their Competitive Advantage”.

For Parents & Students, I design evidence-based systems tailored to how learners uniquely think, learn, and build lasting motivation. As author of The Effort Myth, I specialize in supporting those with learning and attention differences, ensuring they become future-ready, confident leaders. I possess direct experience with complex family systems and intergenerational dynamics, delivering sustained results through decade-plus client relationships.

For Leaders & Professionals, I help drive sustainable performance by co-creating powerful systems and leadership practices that leverage cognitive strengths, natural motivation patterns, and team synergies. My international practice spans Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, with notable engagements including a five-year coaching initiative that brought award-winning positive education programs to 27 schools in Australia.

My approach links individual and team well-being to measurable performance outcomes, particularly effective during leadership transitions and succession planning.
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Professional Information

Employer
Sherri W Fisher LLC
Job title
Coach • Author • Speaker
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Primary Focus
Activate Competitive Advantage for Complex Talent and Multi-Generational Families
Primary Focus Details
Refined over decades, my methodology integrates neuropsychology, executive function optimization, positive psychology, and evidence-based motivational strategies, including proprietary frameworks like POS-EDGE® and The Three Gifts of Motivation™
Professional Area
  • Business
  • Education
Active Professional Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Design Thinking
  • Education, Secondary
  • Education, University
  • Family/Parents
  • Youth
Professional Skills
  • Career Development
  • Coaching
  • Consulting
  • Facilitating groups
  • Leadership development
  • Speaking
  • Teaching resilience
  • Writing
Fluent in Languages
  • English
 

Education

Degrees Before MAPP
M.Ed., BA
 

Social Media

 

Speaking Experience

Interested in Speaking Referrals
Yes
Speaking Topics
-The Effort Myth: How to Give the Three Gifts of Motivation

-The Rubric Mindset: How to Lead Your New Hires Through the Ambiguity of Work

-Leading the Next Generation: Activating Gen-Z's Competitive Advantage

-Three Rules for Adulting™: Preparing High-Potentials for Leadership Transitions

-Stop. Switch. Start: How to Move from Procrastinator to Producer

-Ask Don't Tell: How to Be a Coaching Parent

-Managing Relationships: How to Cultivate Allies and Mentors

-From Research Base to Research-based: How to Design Effective Interventions
Experience speaking to large audiences
Yes
 

Publications

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Book 1 Cover
Book 1 Title
The Effort Myth: How to Give Your Child the Three Gifts of Motivation
Book 2 Cover
Book 2 Title
Unleash Your Epic Self: 35 Practices for Busting the Effort Myth
Book 3 Cover
Book 3 Title
Smart Strengths
Additional Books
Included chapters or resources in:
*Character Strengths Matter
*Resilience
*Gratitude
*The Educators’ Guide To Whole-School Wellbeing: A Practical Guide To Getting Started, Best-Practice Process And Effective Implementation
Media: Radio, TV, or podcasts
Capstone title and abstract
Building a Foundation for Positive Psychology in Schools --Sherri Fisher and Dave Shearon

Abstract: Teachers in a large, non-urban school system completed one or more positive psychology questionnaires assessing strengths of character; happiness; orientation toward pleasure, engagement, and meaning as three different paths to happiness; explanatory style; orientation toward teaching as a job, a career, or a calling; and job satisfaction. These results of these 170 participants are compared with those obtained from an Internet sample of 2,538 teachers on four of the same instruments. Correlations between the results for each of the two samples are examined. The resulting profiles of the two samples are compared, and suggestions are made as to possible uses of such data to guide improvement in large school systems.
Dissertation Title and Link
Building a Foundation for Positive Psychology in Schools: https://repository.upenn.edu/mapp_capstone/18/
Links to Online Publications
Sherri Fisher's Blog: https://www.learnandflourish.com/blog/

Positive Psychology News: More than 50 articles: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/sherri-fisher
 

Contact data

Province/State
MA
Country
USA
MAPP Geography
  • USA - New England
 

MAPP Board Contributions

Board Role
Class Rep for '06
Board sort key
2006
Class Rep
Yes
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