How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome & Own Your Greatness
- Are you constantly questioning your achievements or feeling inadequate, regardless of how well you have performed?
- Do you feel like you’re always working toward someone else’s goals, to the point that you are putting your own hopes, dreams, and career growth on hold?
- Do you feel like you’re stuck running in place and getting nowhere?
- As imposter syndrome affects your performance, self-care and happiness, do you wonder what steps you can take to manage stress and build greater confidence in your career?
- Do you wish you could acknowledge your accomplishments and maximize your potential without becoming overwhelmed by stress or self-doubt?
We are accepting applications for the Fall 2022 Masterclass.
The Own Your Greatness Masterclass: Feel Empowered In Your Life And Career
CLARIFY
We’ll help you CLARIFY the central reasons why the imposter complex develops so you can examine those things more critically. You won’t just learn about common causes, either. Through our interactive approach, you’ll learn to evaluate your imposter origin story, acknowledge impostor syndrome symptoms, recognize triggers and trap doors, and change your narrative to support your ongoing success & well-being.
CHOOSE
Owning your success and accomplishments starts when you CHOOSE to speak your truth. We’ll help you identify automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) that increase your fraud complex feelings of fraudulence so you can proactively deal with them instead of running yourself to the ground trying to cover them up. You will learn how to prioritize self-care, in order to create a compassionate, supportive routine that helps you value and care for yourself.
CREATE
To CREATE change, you must take an assertive role in your self-growth. We’ll help you form a real, holistic picture of all the different factors that are holding you back and what you can do to tackle them. It’s not just about discussing the change you want to see, but learning how to execute that change in a way that works for you. That includes developing concrete skills and tools so you can experiment with new roles, build your dream team of support, and find the conditions for optimal performance.
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The Impact of the Masterclass
Students who completed the Masterclass experienced a 30% decrease in Impostor Syndrome as measured by the Impostor Phenomenon Scale in twelve weeks. They went from experiencing Imposter Syndrome frequently at the beginning of the course to moderately at the end.
Do these thoughts sound familiar?
I feel unqualified for my job.
I’m a fake and going to be found out.
I had a lot of luck and connections to get where I am in my career.
If you’re nodding your head yes, then you may be struggling with imposter syndrome (also known as fraud syndrome). Impostor Syndrome refers to the inability to internalize success—when you have a persistent belief that they are unintelligent or incompetent.
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We've Been Featured in Podcasts
We have gotten to speak with some amazing podcasters discussing a variety of issues related to Impostor Syndrome, including Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel, Senior Editor at LinkedIn; Switch, Pivot or Quit with Executive Producer, Ahyiana Angel; Freelance Pod with Journalist, Suchandrika Chakrabarti; and The Get Wellthy Podcast with Cookbook Author, Michelle Smith amongst many others.
Her Life By Design with Host Christina Galbato
How to Get Beyond Imposter Syndrome and Other Mindset Blocks w/ Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin
Freelance Pod with Host Suchandrika Chakrabarti
Imposter syndrome, social media and getting through a pandemic lockdown with Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin
Switch, Pivot, or Quit with Host Ahyiana Angel
How to Work Through Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin
Whole and Complete with Host Dr. Shante Holley
The Speaking from Hurt Finale with Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin
Get Wellthy with Host Michelle Smith
Episode 16: Struggling with Imposter Syndrome? with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin
Living Corporate with Host Zachary Nunn
The Psychology of Impostor Syndrome (w/ Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin)
The Skills You Learn Here Will Help You Gain the Awareness, Insights, and Tools You Need to Feel Empowered In Your Life and Career
Advice from past students on how to make the most of the Masterclass:
Who Can Benefit From This Masterclass?
If self-help books, family support, and other approaches haven’t helped—or if you just aren’t sure where to get started or how to stay committed—you aren’t alone!
Imposter syndrome hits people who are successful, whether you’ve graduated from college and received a top offer but are now struggling in the work world, or you’re the head of a division or a senior executive and still struggling to define yourself or work in a way that drives your advancement.
Many people are excited to start a new workbook or program, but the concepts aren’t always clear or actionable. And if you don’t get what you want out of these attempts, it’s natural to question whether they can really work for you. This is especially true if you are struggling to implement changes on your own.
- People who work well in group settings (our small group size ensures you get additional support without losing the one-on-one attention you need)
- People who have tried self-help books before and like an action-oriented, proactive approach that gives you clear steps and accountability so you can move through the program and start seeing results quickly)
- People who benefit from a clear plan, structure, and schedule
- People who want to see results fast (this time-limited Masterclass is designed to move you through the program efficiently so you can move forward in your life)
So who can benefit from our Own Your Greatness Masterclass?:
- Build a close community of professionals who understand where you are coming from and what it is you need to learn how to beat imposter syndrome
- Attend weekly small-group webinar calls with Drs. Lisa and Richard Orbé-Austin
- Get a greater sense of the origin of your imposter syndrome
- Understand your common ANTs that reinforce fraud syndrome feelings of fraud that aren’t productive and learn how to internalize your strengths and accomplishments
- Restructure your narrative and how you talk about yourself (to yourself and others)
- Find ways to remediate triggers and trap doors when you talk about imposter syndrome
- Identify productive ways to deal with lapse/relapse on your journey to learning how to deal with imposter syndrome
- Learn foundational skills for self-care
- Build a team around you that knows how to support you as you recover from imposter syndrome
- Learn how to experiment with new roles and try on new ways of being in the world that won’t reinforce imposter syndrome
Throughout this 14-week action-oriented, skills-based online coaching program, you can:
You are not alone – We've dealt with Fraud Syndrome!
Let’s consider two people in similar jobs at similar companies. Both are hard-working. Both are successful. Both earn a healthy income.
Yet, only one of these professionals is thriving and happy. The other is always exhausted and too busy to focus on her personal and professional needs. She feels like she doesn’t have a choice about the direction of her career.
The truth is that having a “successful” career isn’t the same as having a satisfying one.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t have both. It all comes down to how you define success and what you need to feel happy.
Defining your own success isn’t always easy, though, especially when people dismiss the concerns you have about your current position. You’ve probably heard them say things like, “No one likes working, you have an amazing position and you should just be happy” as though that’s supposed to make you feel better!
You’re not alone—we’ve been there. Despite master’s degrees and doctorates, we felt like we had no options. We didn’t know what we wanted for ourselves, let alone how to achieve it. And our jobs didn’t leave much time or energy to figure it out.
That’s why it’s so valuable to have the right support: a mentor or coach who understands what you’re going through and can help you find the best path for you and your unique skills, goals, and needs.
We’ve worked through imposter syndrome in our own lives, and we’ve helped hundreds of clients address their fears and do all the work they need to thrive.
As psychologists and executive coaches in New York City, we’ve been working with highly successful and accomplished individuals for over 15 years. We have the experience you need to learn how to overcome imposter syndrome.
Is the Own Your Greatness Masterclass Right for You?
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Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD
Founding Partner
Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting, LLP
Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin is a licensed psychologist and executive coach, with a focus on career advancement, leadership development and job transitions. She is a co-founder and partner of Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting, a career and executive coaching consultancy, where she works mostly with high potential managers and executives. She earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. Her views about career advancement, job transitions, leadership, and diversity & inclusion are regularly sought by the media and she has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, NBC News, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Refinery29, Business Insider, and Insight Into Diversity. She has also been honored as a Top Voice on Linked in Job Search and Careers. Dr. Orbé-Austin has been an invited speaker at various national conferences. She recently gave a TEDx talk entitled "The Impostor Syndrome Paradox."
She regularly consults to organizations in the private sector, non-profits and educational institutions in supporting their employees and senior leadership teams to address gender bias, diversity, equity, & inclusion concerns, leadership development, effective communication, team cohesion and managing conflict management. Her practice also consults to universities on the reorganization & evaluation of their career centers to enhance their efficacy and metrics, in order to improve service delivery, data analysis, and student career outcomes.
Her book, Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life (Ulysses Press, 2020) coauthored with her partner, Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin, will be released in April 2020.
Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD
Founding Partner
Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting, LLP
Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin is an executive coach and a licensed psychologist, with a focus on leadership development, career advancement, and diversity, equity, & inclusion issues. He is a co-founder and partner of Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting, a career and executive coaching consultancy, which is located in NYC.
Dr. Orbé-Austin has been a keynote speaker and an invited presenter at various conferences & meetings, and consults to academic institutions, corporations, and nonprofit organizations on issues related to leadership, career development & transitions, and diversity, equity & inclusion. Dr. Orbé-Austin’s opinions and writings have appeared in a variety of publications and academic journals including Forbes, Fast Company, Diversity Executive, ThriveGlobal, the Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, and the Handbook of Racial-Cultural Counseling and Psychology.
Dr. Orbé-Austin earned his MSEd and his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education and his BA in Psychology from NYU. He is the author of the upcoming book Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life (Ulysses Press, 2020), co-authored with his partner, Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin, which will be released in April 2020. The goal of the book is to provide a systematic formula to eliminate impostor syndrome and to assist readers to own their talents and power, in order to fully realize their goals, & to lead a more balanced life.