Todd Cherches

CEO of BigBlueGumball and author of VisuaLeadership

CEO & Co-founder of BigBlueGumball LLC, an innovative, NYC-based, management, leadership, and executive coaching firm, as well as a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at the NYU School of Professional Studies/Division of Programs in Business, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University.

I am also a TEDx speaker (“The Power of Visual Thinking”), and the author of "VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life” (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster;2020).

Over the course of my career, I have trained and coached thousands of business professionals in a wide and varied range of industries, companies, and functions worldwide.

Prior to founding BBG, I was the head of the Liquidnet Leadership Institute (of Liquidnet University) for the industry-leading fintech firm, Liquidnet.

My background also includes associations with such top-tier professional development firms as the American Management Association, Dale Carnegie Training, and the London-based Centre for High Performance Development.

Previous career positions include the following industries/companies (in chronological order):

Newspapers (Newsday); television news (NBC News); media and advertising (Ogilvy & Mather); tv production (Aaron Spelling Productions); casting (Columbia Pictures Television); comedy program development (Disney); drama program development (CBS); theme park project management (Sequoia Creative, Showscan Entertainment); and business development at an interactive agency (SpireMedia).

Proud member of the National Speakers Association, as well as a certified Vistage speaker.