[bioundgrd] Fwd: Impostor Syndrome talk with Valerie Young

[Janice Chang]

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From: Jake Livengood <livngood at mit.edu<mailto:livngood at mit.edu>>
Subject: Impostor Syndrome talk with Valerie Young
Date: April 21, 2016 at 8:45:00 AM EDT

MIT welcomes Valerie Young to campus on May 3. Please feel free to distribute the announcement below to your graduate and undergraduate students. Space is limited.

Best,
Jake

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Jake Livengood, PhD
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The Impostor Syndrome with Dr. Valerie Young
The Impostor Syndrome: Why Capable People Suffer from It & How to Thrive in Spite of It

Registration is required at http://alumic.mit.edu/s/1314/03-alumni/wide.aspx?sid=1314&gid=13&pgid=31710&content_id=35425
Note that tickets are limited.  Once registered, you are guaranteed a ticket.

Dr. Valerie Young, one of the leading experts in the study of The Impostor Syndrome, will speak on her years of research on the topic which examines and discusses the millions of professionals who experience the confidence-zapping feeling about themselves and their success. She will share her empowering plan to overcome the needless self-doubt that keeps individuals from feeling as intelligent and competent as everyone else knows they are.

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 top universities and companies in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Key Take Aways:

• Why the impostor syndrome is not “just low self-esteem”
• Creative ways “impostors” discount or minimize their success
• 7 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, perfectionism 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
• Practical steps to help yourself, your employees, or high achieving children to interrupt the impostor syndrome and end needless self-doubt.

Date & Location
Date: 5/3/2016
Time: 6:45 PM to 9:30 PM
Location: 32-123
MIT Campus
Registration is required at http://alumic.mit.edu/s/1314/03-alumni/wide.aspx?sid=1314&gid=13&pgid=31710&content_id=35425



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