Valerie Young

Internationally known speaker, author and leading expert in building confidence by overcoming impostor syndrome. Valerie's career guidance tips have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Weekend magazine, Science, Psychology Today, Redbook, More, Woman’s Day, Men’s Health, NBCNews.com, The Chicago Tribune, Glamour (UK), The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Mail, The Irish Independent, BBC Radio and in many other outlets around the globe.

A former manager at a Fortune 200 company, Valerie has shared her highly practical and accessible advice with thousands of executives, managers and professionals in the United States, Canada and Europe, at companies such as Apple, Boeing, UBS, Facebook, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, IBM, Ernst & Young, McDonalds, Intel, Chrysler, Bristol Myers Squibb, The Space Science Telescope Institute and The Conference Board.

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, where her research focused on understanding and eliminating the psychological barriers that prevent women from embracing their full potential in school and at work.

In addition to the work she does at ImpostorSyndrome.com, Valerie is an expert at showing people how they can shape their lives to do what they love. Now in its twenty-third year, the newsletter she publishes, titled Changing Course, is read by more than twenty-three thousand people around the world.