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- April
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Dr. Valerie Young The Impostor Syndrome
How to Feel as Bright and Capable as You Really Are
Why Smart People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive In Spite of It
Mike Meyer’s quipped that he’s still waiting for the “no-talent police” to come and arrest him, He’s not alone.
Millions of people around the world from executives to PhDs to a-list celebrities secretly worry they are not as smart or talented as other people “think” they are. It has called the impostor syndrome and it hurts both individuals — and the bottom line
In this lively and informative session, you will discover:
- Why the impostor syndrome is not “just low self-esteem”
- Creative ways “impostors” discount or minimize their success
- Perfectly good reasons why smart people feel like frauds
- How your personal Competence Type may be setting you (or your employees) up to fall short
- Procrastination, holding back and other unconscious coping strategies “impostors” use to avoid being found out
- The cost of the impostor syndrome on organizations
- Why women are both more susceptible to and held back by impostor feelings
You will walk away with practical strategies for interrupting impostor syndrome and ending needless self-doubt that you can start using immediately to help yourself, your employees, or your children.
Valerie Young is an internationally-known speaker, a leading expert on the impostor syndrome, and author of award-winning book The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It (Crown Business, a division of Random House) now available in five languages.
Her career-related tips have been cited in these and other publications around the world. In addition Valerie has been interviewed on countless national and local radio programs in the US and Canada and on WPIX Channel 11 in New York.
A former manager of strategic marketing at a Fortune 200 company herself, Dr. Valerie Young has shared her highly relatable and practical advice to tens of thousands of executives, managers, and professionals at for-profit companies in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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