Cheryl Moore Brinkley, BFA Ithaca College, TESOL; member AEA, VASTA; founder & CEO (chief everything officer) of B. Vocal LLC (1999 & 2010), is a Public Speaking, Elocution, and Presence coach who also serves as adjunct faculty, teaching Voice & Speech and Acting since 2001 in the Macalester College Dept. of Theatre and Dance. As a lifelong theatre professional (actor/director/educator), Cheryl has drawn from and simplified the lessons, exercises and techniques of the performing arts to help emerging, aspiring and executive leaders, and motivated self-improvers in many fields, including the Performing Arts, to develop what she calls their Personal Performance Assets for professional effectiveness. In the Twin Cities of MN, she coaches privately and has provided group training or coached high-talent individuals for Target, General Mills, 3-M, The Bush Foundation, the State of MN, Medtronic, BAE Systems, Trane, Cigna, Ingersoll Rand, Ecolab, Health Partners, Stratasys, and many other companies and organizations as well as The Guthrie, Festival, Commonweal, and other theatres. She continues to coach professional actors on both voice and acting.