Artists Registry

TINESHA CHERRY
AUTHOR, SPEAKER, TRAINER

Tinesha Cherry is a wife, mother of two, career woman, volunteer, author, poet, speaker, leadership trainer, life coach and entrepreneur. Mrs. Cherry also enjoys a highly successful and satisfying 21 year career as a federal law enforcement officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Having served the last 16 years in a formal leadership position, Mrs. Cherry currently holds a position as a fifth level manager responsible for both local and national programs within her organization.

As a premier keynote speaker and leading authority on achievement, Mrs. Cherry has been involved in mentoring, leading, empowering and influencing audiences for more than 21 years. For more than two decades, she has used a combination of motivational speaking, skillful poetry and compelling story telling to deliver a message of hope and inspiration to teach others how to rise above adversity. Mrs. Cherry has been able to translate her experiences into hard hitting coaching that has helped audiences achieve their best personal, professional and educational dreams.

Mrs. Cherry is the author of “I Was Born To Lose, But I Chose to Win”, a book where she tells her own powerful story of overcoming extreme adversity (living in poverty, being abandoned by her mother, never knowing her father, being subjected to physical, mental and emotional abuse and molestation and enduring the foster care system before finally being adopted), to serve as an example of what can be achieved through perseverance.

Mrs. Cherry is also the author of the upcoming book “FURTHERMORE: Coming Out Of The Shadows, a book that helps women achieve greatness both in their personal and professional lives by teaching them to be bold, brave, brilliant, beautiful and balanced. Throughout her book, Mrs. Cherry gives women the tools, knowledge, support and encouragement needed to embrace a winning attitude, adopt a fighting spirit and develop a strong sense of self-worth. With the help of Mrs. Cherry’s book, women everywhere will learn how to transition beyond the challenges and obstacles of the present, toward a future full of opportunity and optimism.

Mrs. Cherry is also the founder of Project D.R.E.A.M. (Delivering Results Effectively to Advance Myself), an organization dedicated to promoting growth, prosperity and greatness in adolescent girls and young women everywhere, regardless of age, race, social standing or economic status. Through her work with Project D.R.E.A.M., Mrs. Cherry works to help build the self-esteem and self-worth of young women and girls within her community by expanding their outlook on life through education, leadership and direction.

As a trainer/coach, Mrs. Cherry has trained hundreds of leaders across the country to maximize their leadership skills and lead with confidence. Mrs. Cherry and her team have traveled across the country providing training to hundreds of supervisors and managers from multiple agencies throughout the federal government. Through Mrs. Cherry’s leadership training, participants learn to overcome insecurities, build confidence, courage and character and take the actions necessary to contribute to the realization of their professional dreams and aspirations.

Mrs. Cherry is dedicated to helping women develop the skills, outlook and framework needed to achieve greatness now and into the future. Through her women's empowerment workshops, Mrs. Cherry has empowered hundreds of women to achieve greatness by encouraging them to be bold, brave, beautiful, brilliant and balanced. Girls and women all across the country have been motivated, encouraged, and inspired toward higher levels of self-esteem, self-empowerment, self-confidence and self-love through the exposure, education and experience received in Mrs. Cherry's workshops.

As a poet, Mrs. Cherry specializes in writing and presenting tailor made poetry for any occasion. With a collection of original and thought provoking poems, Mrs. Cherry uses her gift of motivational speaking through poetry to empower others, strengthen her community, bridge barriers, highlight issues and identify solutions to address real concerns that plague our society. Mrs. Cherry has written and published numerous poems and has performed her poetry in a number of open forums in front of both large and small audiences (upwards of 15,000 plus). Many of Mrs. Cherry’s poems have received national attention, as they have been featured in national publications and introduced in national training courses.