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Dr. Lawana Gladney

Dr. Lawana Gladney is a renowned speaker, author, and emotional wellness doctor who shares her message of emotional health and wellness with audiences across the nation. Like many women, she has a career, an advanced education, is a successful business owner, and mother of four children. And like the typical woman, she has juggled all of these things while dealing with the emotional drainage of life’s everyday issues.

Formerly an elementary, middle schoolteacher, and college professor, Dr. Gladney developed many programs and spent several years researching the concepts of motivation and emotional wellness, and is a true expert in her field. Her ability to connect with the audience coupled with her energetic style is an explosive combination that leaves the audience forever changed.

As CEO of Emotional Wellness, Inc. Dr. Gladney has presented speeches and training sessions throughout North America to educational institutions, businesses, organizations and churches. Some of her clients include Pitney Bowes, Aetna, Brinker International, Federal Aviation Administration, IBM, AT& T, Texas Instruments, Freddie Mac, Zig Ziglar Corp, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard, and many others. She is a television personality and has been a co-host of a cable show, a residential expert for Insights on Fox 4, as well as interviewed by several local and national TV shows. She was featured on the Michael Baisden Radio Show syndicated seventy-two cities and appeared as a guest expert for Baisden After Dark national television talk show.

She has been featured in the Dallas Morning News as well as other national magazines and radio programs. She has contributed to articles for several magazines including, In Touch magazine to offer advice to celebrities such as Tom and Katie Cruise, and Brad and Angelina. As an author, she has written four books: The Five Keys to REALL Control, Going Beyond a Discipline Plan, If I Have to Tell You One More Time…Six Keys to Motivating Your Kids, You Can’t Be Sick… I Have to Work; 50 Tips to Emotional Wellness for Working Mothers; For Men Only; 50 Tips to Power, Women, And… (Ebook). She has been a contributing author of three books; Conversations on Faith; Student Success Stories, 15 Winning Ways to Better Living, and an expert contributor to Good Is Not Enough, and other Unwritten Rules for Minorities in Corporate America.

Her areas of expertise include, emotional wellness, life management, and work/life balance. In addition to being a speaker, author and trainer, she is a true leader and visionary. As the founder and past president of Young Educated Sisters (Y.E.S., Inc.), an organization established to help deter teenage pregnancy through empowerment, which after 12 years in existence has a 99% success rate. She also is the founder and executive director of a non-profit organization for women, The Six Million Dollar Woman’s Club an organization that educates and enhances the lives of women in the core areas of Relationships, Communication, Confidence, Spirituality, Finances, and Health Awareness. Dr. Gladney holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Technology She also has served on the boards of National Speakers Association North Texas, and Meeting Professionals International D/FW chapter and was the recipient of their Rising Star Award.

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