ExecuProv is a presentation and communication skills training company that has served business professionals, Fortune 100 and 500 companies, government institutions, and nonprofit organizations for more than 40 years. Its ever-evolving updated curricula for its seminars and workshops continue to offer innovative techniques for public speaking, one-on-one communication, business writing, PowerPoint preparation and delivery, leadership, meeting facilitation, interviewing techniques, humor and storytelling in speeches and presentations, team-building, appropriate business writing skills, and the how-to’s of online meetings and presentations via video conferencing. ExecuProv also offers a course in how to better communicate via email and text messaging.

The company also provides one-on-one public speaking and communication skills training via private coaching sessions (in person or via Zoom and other video conferencing platforms) for those who wish to prepare and rehearse speeches and presentations, and for those who wish to work through various on-the-job communication challenges. Class sessions for companies and groups are always custom-tailored. On-site presentation and open-enrollment workshops are purposely kept to a minimum of students to ensure highly-individualized attention for each attendee.

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Cherie Kerr

Cherie Kerr, who founded ExecuProv in 1983, has provided a variety of classes on presentation and communication skills to hundreds of business professionals from Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Starting with a single public speaking course, ExecuProv’s offerings have expanded to include over a two dozen workshops, as well custom-tailored courses designed for the needs of specific clients. Her corporate clients include Toyota, BP America, Ericsson, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Ingram Micro, Bank One, Yum!, Delta Dental, Experian, Foothill Capital, PacifiCare, Allergan, Universal Studios, Fluor Corporation, 3i Implant, ConAgra Foods, The Hilton Hotel and Marriott Hotel Corporations, California Trucking Association, Office Max/Boise, Volcom, Nissan, Honda, Kia, Ingram Micro, Bank of America, BJ’s Restaurant Brewhouse, Southern California Edison, Panasonic, Black & Decker, Mattel, and Office Depot, to name but a few.

Kerr has also provided a number of classes to various universities and collegiate departments including: Chapman University; Otis College of Art and Design; University of Southern California; California State University, Fullerton; Vanguard University; University of California, Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business; UCI Medical Center, Anesthesiology Department; the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis; and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She also has worked for a number of governmental agencies including the L.A. City Attorney’s office, the L.A. District Attorney’s office, the County of Orange, the Orange County Bar Foundation and the Orange County Juvenile Drug Court Program. She was a certified Provider for the Continuing Legal Education Program for the State Bar of California for 25 years and has served as that organization’s official speaker-trainer for its Board of Governors.

The author of 16 books, 11 of which feature self-help techniques on presentation and communication skills, Kerr shares her ideas and theories culled from her varied background and expertise in improv comedy, PR and communications. Her other works include a book on how to write sketch comedy, a book featuring the how to’s of building original comedic characters, another covering one-on-one networking skills, and a critically acclaimed memoir of her father’s life as a jazz musician entitled Charlie’s Notes, which was a New York Book Festival winner in 2012 and a collection of short stories, “Hell No, Purgatory Yes….” She has also ghostwritten books (and dozens of columns) for her clients. Kerr’s books are available on Amazon.com, at Barnesandnoble.com and through ExecuProv’s website. They have sold in 17 foreign countries and translated in as many languages.

In addition to lecturing and teaching ExecuProv courses, both in classroom situations and in private, one-on-one coaching sessions, Kerr provides speech writing services for many of her clients. Kerr also provides her creative services to large companies for corporate comedy industrials.

A founding member of the world-famous L.A. Groundlings (Melissa McCarthy, Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney, Lisa Kudrow, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, Cheryl Hines, Jon Lovitz, Maya Rudolph, Kathy Griffin, etc.) Kerr is the creator, founder, and artistic director for the Orange County Crazies, a sketch and improvisational comedy troupe (launched in 1990) in Santa Ana, California. She also serves as the group’s head writer. She has received rave reviews for her work as a writer, performer, and director.

Kerr, having taught improvisational comedy to actors since 1973, studied with some of the best improv and comedy teachers in the business, including Kerr’s former scene partner, the late Gary Austin, founder of the L.A. Groundlings, and a former member of the highly acclaimed group, The Committee; Michael Gellman, a director and teacher at The Second City, in Chicago; and Jeannie Berlin (“Succession”) an Academy Award nominee and Elaine May’s daughter. In her formative years, she studied at the Pasadena Academy of Drama with Eleanor Dopp.

A writer for more than 50 years, Kerr has owned an award-winning public relations firm since 1978, KerrPR, which offers public relations services to a variety of clients. As a consultant now, she handles many crisis situations and is regarded as a prime go-to source for media (such as “Good Morning America,” “NBC Dateline,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “CNN, “20/20,” “The Today Show,” “Anderson Cooper 360º,” “The Sunday Show,” “Nightline,” Associated Press, Peoplemag.com, Fox news.com, and many others) to provide them with expert sources for commentary.

Kerr is a member of the American Society of Composers, Artists and Publishers (ASCAP), and has been honored as an award-winning journalist and publicist. Kerr was named, along with Disney’s Michael Eisner, as one of the “Top Ten Most Sensational People in Orange County” by Orange Coast Magazine. She also was given the coveted “Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award” for her lifetime achievements in comedy. She has been quoted and featured in many publications including the OC Register, The Los Angeles Times, the Harvard Review Communication Newsletter, Forbes, American Way magazine, the Sacramento Bee, USA Today, The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily and The Associated Press, in addition to many others. She also did an AOL radio tour on email etiquette in 28 cities in the U.S. and has been featured on numerous websites. She is a member of Women in Film.

Kerr has also written, produced and directed an original full-scale musical comedy, written six full-length screenplays, and more than 450 comedy sketches. Having produced a number of comedy shorts for the O.C. Crazies, Kerr founded Ree-invent Films in 2011 to expand her efforts into full-length feature films. Since then she has produced, written and directed four feature-length comedy films, altogether winning more than 38 awards along the film festival circuit, All of her films are available on all major video platforms, including Amazon Prime, iTunes, Xumo, Tubi, Google Play, Comcast Xfinity VOD and, Cineverse, Cinedigm, Tubi, Roku. the Onyx Streaming Network, YouTube Movies and Films, Future Today, Apple and Android devices and many other platforms. Kerr recently wrapped the third feature comedy in her three-part mockumentary series, “It’s the Gravy.” The two prequels “The Show Can’t Go On!”, “3^rd Annual Matricher Falls Internationel (purposely misspelled) Film Festival,” won a total of 30 awards. “Gravy.”itself has now won more than 30 awards along the film festival circuit.

Kerr is the mother of award-winning filmmaker, Drake Doremus, winner of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Like Crazy. Doremus trained under Kerr as a member of the O.C Crazies sketch and improv troupe, having started on Kerr’s stage at the age of six, leaving for school at the American Film Institute at age 19. Doremus has released a number of features since 2011, including the feature film, Breathe In in 2012; Equals, in the summer of 2016 (starring Kristen Stewart); Newness in 2017 (starring Nicholas Holt); Zoe in 2018 (starring Ewan McGregor) and “Endings, Beginnings,” starring Jamie Dornan and Shailene Woodley. Kerr is credited with having hatched the comedic careers of such highly acclaimed performers as Maz Jobrani (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Malia Pyles (Baskets), Kiley Rogers (Grey’s Anatomy), Jay Abdo (Queen of the Desert), and Mikey Day (Saturday Night Live). Kerr also starred in her own one-woman show, Out of Her Mind, which met with great success and which she single-handedly wrote. In it, she played a number of original characters. Kerr also wrote, produced and directed “Ah, Those Lounge Swingin’ Dubois Sisters,” a full-length Broadway musical.

Kerr is frequently sought out as a keynote speaker addressing presentation and communication skills, topics on comedy, and humor in the workplace.

Cherie Kerr resides in Santa Ana, California. She is the mother of three and grandmother of six.