Trust & Thrive

88: Imposter Syndrome & Owning Your Greatness - with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin, Psychologist & Executive Coach

Aug 6, 2020

50:42

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 cofounder and partner of Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting.

She is also a career and executive coaching consultancy, where she works mostly with high potential managers and executives.

Dr. Orbé-Austin 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 LinkedIn in the area of 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."

Dr. Orbé-Austin regularly consults with 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) co-authored with her partner, Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin, was released in April 2020.

In this episode, we discuss many underlying reasons as to why people experience imposter syndrome, dealing with toxic bosses and coworkers, emotional boundary setting, the problem with comparison and perfectionism, what "owning your greatness" looks like, the importance of acknowledging one's progress, and more.

FOLLOW DR. ORBÉ-AUSTIN:

WEBSITE: www.dynamictransitionsllp.com/
INSTA: @drorbeaustin
TEDx: The Imposter Syndrome Paradox
BOOK: Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt and Succeed in Life