Teri P. Cox
Leveraging Her Life Experience, Professional Strengths and Spiritual Lagacy
To Help Others Transform from Tragedy
Known for challenging the status quo to find better ways to make a difference in the lives of others, Teri Cox now combines her passion for creative problem-solving with the powerful lessons learned from her personal metamorphic journey and inspired connection with the spirit of her loved ones through her Butterfly Legacy to focus on a new mission – to help others navigate through the path from real life trauma and loss to positive life transformation.
Energized and renewed by her own evolution, Teri’s building a self-help platform for radical change recovery, beginning with this blog www.path2butterflyforum.com. Related material and much more will be covered in her next book, a memoir: My Path to Butterfly: Lessons from a Strategist Rocked, Then Transformed by Radical Life Change (working title), also in the works.
For over 36 years, Teri’s managed a successful, self-designed career as a communications and marketing strategist, change agent, author, healthcare thought leader, advocate and family and caregiving expert. She’s served patient advocacy and government organizations, stakeholder groups for the elderly and their caregivers, foundations, professional and trade associations, research institutions, healthcare products companies and global communications firms.
For decades, Teri also acted as caregiver and health advocate for her beloved parents, then her husband during the convoluted course of their illnesses. Understanding the enormous burden placed on family caregivers, she created an advisory council of key organizations involved in aging, caregiving, healthcare and volunteerism – including AARP, NCOA, the Alzheimer’s Association and Interfaith Caregivers Alliance. Working with these groups, she conceptualized, then served as project manager/editor of CARING TO HELP OTHERS: A Training Manual for Preparing Volunteers to Assist Caregivers of Older Adults, a comprehensive program to help community organizations train volunteers to assist caregivers.
Available free of charge on www.caringtohelpothers.com, this publication has been used by over 13,000 community organizations across the U.S. Project sponsor Eisai, Inc., a global pharmaceutical company, received the American Society on Aging Brookdale Award for the program’s standard of excellence in recruitment and training of volunteers.
Earlier in her career, as a student at the University of Pittsburgh, Teri managed an independent study to find solutions and resources for women in crisis. Upon graduating, Teri was hired by the University of Pittsburgh Press to turn the results of that study into her first self-help book,
HELP YOURSELF: A Women’s (People’s) Resource Directory for Pittburgh, published in 1975. Teri also produced and hosted, Impact, a weekly public affairs radio talk show that aired on two Pittsburgh stations, 13Q-AM and WSHH-FM.
Teri has an M.B.A. in Marketing from New York University/Stern School of Business and a B.A. in Speech and Communications from the University of Pittsburgh.
