Jackie Ruka is America's Happyologist, Well-Being Expert and American Author. As a trained Art Psychotherapist and certified Action Coach, through ICF/McClean Hospital/a Harvard University affiliate, she teaches professionals, organizations, and Fortune 500 companies how to be unstoppable and fearless, toward living their dreams out loud, by starting with happiness first. Jackie has been featured as a Speaker and member of the Experts Industry Academy and on numerous Radio and TV episodes.Jackie has been quoted or published in the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, Yahoo Finance, Lioness Magazine for Female Entrepreneurs, Daily Worth, Fox5, NBC, Philly.com, Health and Family, U-T San Diego, the Santa Barbara News-Press and SHRM, for her knowledge in business coaching, her ability to overcoming self-limiting beliefs, and her expertise in wellness, and leadership skills. Jackie invites professionals to the conscious party and shows the way to a new revolution with how happiness leads to success, beyond money and power. Ruka’s No.1 Amazon best- selling book, Get Happy and Create a Kick-Butt Life, is backed by Positive Psychology, 5,000+ hours coaching professional women, CEO’s and entrepreneurs, where her research fostered the mindful leadership techniques she developed. The power of Jackie’s creative background, as an award-winning sales and marketing executive within Fortune 100/500 companies, offers audiences a fresh view to opening their imagination where every problem has a solution and the silver lining resides within. Jackie’s research has led to a new understanding of creativity with harnessing a new economic paradigm through Gross Domestic Happiness, the future to an overall positive lifestyle.

Inspirational, Health, Personal Growth, Authors, Happiness, Employee Engagement, Business, Motivational