Origins of Imposter Syndrome & How to Overcome It By Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin • Updated November 2025 Imposter Syndrome often begins with the quiet question: “Am I good enough?” The origins of Imposter Syndrome lie in how we first learn to measure worth. When readers ask about my book Own Your Greatness, they sometimes imagine it’s about faking expertise—like Leonardo…
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Curate & Amplify Your Personal Brand for Career Success A creative lightbulb word cloud that captures core personal branding themes and how they power career momentum. Define your message, cultivate authentic relationships, make your work visible, communicate a clear value proposition, and build genuine connection. As a result, your reputation converts into opportunities, sponsorship, and sustained advancement. Feeling overlooked despite…
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Featured insight:Finding your career sweet spot means identifying the work where your strengths, values, and natural sense of flow intersect. It’s the zone where tasks feel energizing instead of draining, where you perform at a high level with less friction, and where your contributions feel meaningful, sustainable, and aligned with the life you want to build. Finding Your Career Sweet…
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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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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,…
A new year often brings a fresh wave of hope, motivation, and goal setting. However, goal setting with Imposter Syndrome can trigger anxiety, perfectionism, and self-doubt. If you’re just starting to explore what Imposter Syndrome really is, learning a different approach will help. Why Goal Setting Feels Hard with Imposter Syndrome Goal setting with Imposter Syndrome means creating goals without…
Overview DEI commitment is possible, even in a period of backlash. However, some leaders claim DEI has run its course. Meanwhile, the evidence says otherwise. Moreover, hybrid work creates new friction points. In addition, AI systems can repeat bias at scale. As a result, employees still want fairness, safety, and respect. Consequently, organizations thrive when they deliver those basics. Bottom…
Unconscious bias in the workplace is automatic, unintentional judgment that influences decisions about people and groups. You can’t fully stop bias from activating, but you can prevent stereotype application in hiring, reviews, and daily management by naming common bias types, spotting triggers (task, numbers, clarity, perceiver), and installing repeatable “bias interrupters” like structured interviews, calibrated rubrics, and manager coaching. What…
A professional woman coping with exhaustion and emotional strain at work — a reminder of why psychological safety and equity matter. Summary: To stop the gaslighting and mistreatment of Black women at work, leaders must close the pay gap, provide supportive sponsors, provide coaching that fits the culture, and enforce zero tolerance for bias and micro-aggressions. As a result, Black…
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…
Coaching for DEI professionals provides essential emotional and strategic support to navigate organizational resistance, reduce burnout, and sustain impact. Through culturally competent coaching, DEI leaders process the emotional toll of the work, earn leadership buy-in, and clarify their roles—transforming both their careers and their organizations’ cultures. The Current Reality Facing DEI Professionals After 2020, organizations pledged to deepen their commitments…
Leaning In Is Not Enough: How Corporate Leadership Programs Are Failing BIPOC Women—and How to Truly Support Their Career Success To truly help BIPOC women succeed, companies must go beyond good intentions. Progress happens when leaders create fair systems, strong sponsorship, and workplaces where all women can thrive. Recognizing Why Progress Has Stalled Every March, organizations celebrate women’s leadership. However,…