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2013 Institute Diversity Summit - Keynote Address: The Impostor Syndrome

Valerie Young’s academic research focused on understanding and eliminating internal barriers to women’s achievement. Young is an internationally known expert on the Impostor Syndrome and author of the best-selling book, The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It

 

She has addressed over 60,000 men and women, and her client list includes such diverse organizations as Intel, Chrysler, Boeing, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Ernst & Young, McDonalds (Europe), American Women in Radio and Television, Society of Women Engineers, Harvard University, MIT, and Stanford.

MIT’s third annual Diversity Summit addressed the complexities of meritocracy on Jan. 30, 2013.

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Diversity Summit 2013

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