Committing to Change: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Professional Resolutions Key Insight: The most effective way to achieve career goals is to break them into measurable steps, build consistent habits, and ground your progress in supportive accountability. Many professionals begin a new year—or a major life transition—wondering how to achieve career goals in a real and sustainable way. Although motivation…
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How to Build a Strong Professional Pitch: The Basics By Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD A Department of Labor survey indicated that more than 50% of jobs are obtained via networking, while only about 5% of jobs come from the open job market of online job listings. I share this fact with many clients, yet networking remains one of the most resisted…
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How to Succeed in Business by Strategically Trying! As the first quarter closes, many employees enter performance review season—an experience that can feel stressful, discouraging, or even demoralizing. According to a survey by the American Psychological Association, 46% of workers are dissatisfied with recognition practices, and 44% feel they lack opportunities for growth. When employees feel undervalued, the impact is…
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Dynamic Transitions Imposter Syndrome Resource Center Imposter Syndrome: Expert Guidance, Coaching & Resources Imposter Syndrome is a persistent difficulty internalizing your accomplishments combined with concerns that others may eventually discover you are less capable, qualified, or deserving of your success than they believe. Psychologists, executive coaches, and authors Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD, and Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD have spent decades helping professionals,…
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Toxic workplaces hurt confidence, mental health, and physical wellbeing. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, unhealthy work settings are a public-health issue. Therefore, ending toxic workplaces takes system-level change: bring DEI into strategy, train leaders, build psychological safety, set fair workloads, and normalize joy and balance. In this guide Introduction What Defines a Toxic Workplace? The 10-Point Plan Conclusion FAQs…
Dynamic Transitions Resource Center Imposter Syndrome: Expert Guidance, Coaching & Resources Imposter Syndrome is a persistent difficulty internalizing your accomplishments combined with concerns that others may eventually discover you are less capable, qualified, or deserving of your success than they believe. Understanding the Pattern—and What Helps Change It Psychologists, executive coaches, and authors Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD, and Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD…
Dynamic Transitions Imposter Syndrome Resource Center Imposter Syndrome: Expert Guidance, Coaching & Resources Imposter Syndrome is a persistent difficulty internalizing your accomplishments combined with concerns that others may eventually discover you are less capable, qualified, or deserving of your success than they believe. Psychologists, executive coaches, and authors Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD, and Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD have spent decades helping professionals,…
When Imposter Syndrome and silence team up, capable people become harder to see—by others and, eventually, by themselves. Featured Summary: Imposter Syndrome and silence often travel together. When self-doubt convinces you speaking up is risky, you may minimize your needs, your impact, and your values—until you become invisible. This article shows how the pattern forms and how to change it…
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Empowering Women to Thrive Imposter Syndrome is not just internal—it is also structural. And healing it is an act of resistance. Featured Summary: Imposter Syndrome in women is an ongoing pattern of self-doubt that workplace bias, unequal access to opportunity, and caregiving penalties often intensify. Women can reduce impostor feelings by clarifying what is internal versus structural,…
The 3 C’s Method for Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Clarify, Choose, Create Developed by psychologists and Imposter Syndrome experts Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD, and Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD, the 3 C’s Method—Clarify, Choose, Create—is a structured approach for understanding the origins of Imposter Syndrome, interrupting the patterns that maintain it, and creating the conditions necessary for lasting change. The 3 C’s Method moves…
