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Gregory Q. Cheek

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Gregory Q. Cheek is an author, speaker, college professor and owner of Greg Cheek Speaks.

Greg presents an array of motivational topics, including keynote presentations, overcoming adversity and achieving your dreams, goal setting, dealing with cancer and illness, resiliency, collegiate faculty communication, healthcare communication between patient and provider, presentation training and overcoming speaker apprehension, leadership communication, and athlete and team confidence through effective communication, and the Three Points of Contact and his 12.5 Ways of Success.

Greg holds an Associate of Arts (AA) degree from Shasta College, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from California State University, Chico, and a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Gregory Q. Cheek is an author, speaker, college professor and owner of Greg Cheek Speaks.

Greg presents an array of motivational topics, including keynote presentations, overcoming adversity and achieving your dreams, goal setting, dealing with cancer and illness, resiliency, collegiate faculty communication, healthcare communication between patient and provider, presentation training and overcoming speaker apprehension, leadership communication, and athlete and team confidence through effective communication, and the Three Points of Contact and his 12.5 Ways of Success.

Greg holds an Associate of Arts (AA) degree from Shasta College, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from California State University, Chico, and a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Communication from the University of Northern Colorado. Greg is a Distinguished Military Graduate from the Reserve Officer Training Corps, a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, and a graduate of the Master Resiliency Training (MRT) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Greg served six years in the US Air Force as an airman and sixteen years as an officer in the United States Army. Greg was awarded an Air Medal when the helicopter he was traveling on was forced to conduct an emergency landing in enemy territory during combat operations. Greg is a recipient of the US Army Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award and has served in leadership roles in the First Infantry Division, Ft. Riley, Kansas, Second Infantry Division, Korea, and Fourth Infantry Division, Ft. Carson, Colorado, and as a General Officer Aide de Camp during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Greg has taught more than a hundred college communication courses and served on faculty at the US Army Combined Armed Services Staff College (CAS3), the US Army Command and General Staff College, the US Army Medical Department Center and School (AMEDD), University of Nevada, Las Vegas, St. Mary’s University, University of Maryland University College in Germany, University of Kansas, St. Philip’s College, Community College of Southern Nevada, Barstow College, Kansas City Kansas Community College, and Central Texas College in South Korea.

Greg’s passions are travel, motivational speaking, communication seminars, healthcare communication, and collegiate communication and teaching communication at the college and university level. Greg’s motto is to “speak anywhere and anytime.”
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Three Points of Contact: A Motivational Speaker's Inspirational Methods of Success from Homeless Teen Through Cancer.

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Greetings everyone, I hope you are safe and healthy wherever you are in the world as you read this.

This Thursday, 14 May 2020, I will be giving resiliency training for healthcare workers who are on the front lines battling COVID-19 (via Zoom).

The number of way that COVID has effected our lives is too many to list, but it is certain that our healthcare workers are doing a Herculean task. Long-hou

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My Share of the Task: A Memoir

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And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

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“I’m cancer-free today!
Cancer cannot keep up with my goals, enthusiasm, focus, passion, and determination. I will run you out of my body by not thinking about you, I will focus on what it will be like when you are gone.”
― Gregory Q. Cheek, Three Points of Contact: A Motivational Speaker's Inspirational Methods of Success from Homeless Teen Through Cancer.

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“Storms are a way of life!
You don’t have to outrun a storm.
Act Now!
Be properly prepared and make the storm work for you!”
― Gregory Q. Cheek, Three Points of Contact: A Motivational Speaker's Inspirational Methods of Success from Homeless Teen Through Cancer.

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“Thanks to yoga, I live every day in absolute bliss.
Namaste!”
― Gregory Q. Cheek, Three Points of Contact: A Motivational Speaker's Inspirational Methods of Success from Homeless Teen Through Cancer.

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“You may have a Porsche, a mansion, a vacation home, and all the money in the world. However, I have the handwritten thank you note, the greatest heartfelt equalizer of all time.”
― Gregory Q. Cheek, Three Points of Contact: A Motivational Speaker's Inspirational Methods of Success from Homeless Teen Through Cancer.

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“Daily alone time
My ability to embrace stillness and meditation was the momentum swing in my health transformation. I breathed in and out with the musical sounds of the Pacific Ocean. I breathed in life, energy, and the universe and as I breathed out, I felt every red and white blood cell washing the cancer cells out to sea with the waves.”
― Gregory Q. Cheek, Three Points of Contact: A Motivational Speaker's Inspirational Methods of Success from Homeless Teen Through Cancer.