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Official Career Change Expert - Valerie Young
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Valerie Young is an expert on “Outside the Job Box Careers” and the founder and Dreamer in Residence at ChangingCourse.com, a company designed to provide resources, tools, perspective, and inspiration to help discover and follow your dreams of a more fulfilling life, working at what you love.

Following the sudden death of her mother Barbara in 1993, Valerie left her corporate job and 90-mile-a-day commute to pursue her own dream of launching Changing Course. She is an internationally known workshop leader and public speaker. Her insight and humor have made her a popular guest speaker at such diverse organizations as Intel, Daimler Chrysler, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIGNA, American Women in Radio and Television, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Women’s Jewelry Association, Society of Women Engineers, National Association of Bank Women, National Association of Insurance Women, Women in Federal Law Enforcement, Association of Women in Science, Women Rainmaker’s Roundtable (law firm partners), Connecticut Bar Association, Zonta, Professional Secretaries International and American Society for Training and Development.

Valerie's career change tips have been cited in such publications as Kiplinger’s, Inc., The Wall Street Journal, USA Weekend magazine, Entrepreneur, Woman’s Day, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Self, Glamour (UK), Cosmopolitan, The Executive Female, The Globe and Mail, The Edmonton Sun, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Oregonian, The Ventura County Star, and The Dallas Morning News. She has been a guest on People Are Talking (ABC), the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s The Current, Chicago’s WMAQ, and The Wall Street Journal’s nationally-syndicated program "Work & Family." She joins Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Natasha Josefowitz and others as a contributing author to Not As Far As You Think: The Realities of Working Women and contributing editor to Finding Your True Calling.

In addition, Valerie has delivered her How to Feel As Bright and Capable As Everyone Seems to Think You Are program at numerous colleges and universities including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Boston University School of Medicine, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Northern Arizona University, University of Houston, University of Kentucky, University of Missouri, University of Illinois, University of Kansas, University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin, University of Texas, University of Iowa, University of Connecticut, University of Washington, and Texas A&M.

Before founding Changing Course, Valerie was a cubicle dweller in the strategic marketing department of a Fortune 500 company. She earned her Bachelor Arts form the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as her doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where her research focused on understanding and eliminating the psychological barriers preventing women from achieving their full potential.

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• Are Successful People Really Luckier?
• Creative Income Streams for People Who Love to Cook
• Getting Other People to Invest in Your Dream
• Taking Baby Steps on Behalf of a Dream:
• 10 Steps to Escape the Job World and Create The Life You Really Want
• A Surprisingly Easy Way to Increase Your Odds of Working at What You Love
• Afraid to Take the Leap? Simple Ways to Face Down Your Fears
• An Interesting Business Opportunity for People with an Eye for Home Design
• Are You Settling? Get What You Want in Three Steps
• Breaking into Print:
• Bringing Your Product Idea to Market
• Business Owners Offer “Been There” Advice
• Business Planning 101: Do You Really Need a Business Plan?
• Business Planning 101: Keep it Simple
• Business Planning 101: When it Comes to Business Advice – Consider the Source
• Calling All Cooks and Chocolate Lovers:
• Changing Careers? How to Get Around the 3 Major Mental Roadblocks to Success
• Creative Entrepreneurs See Opportunity Even in Death
• Dealing With the "Competition"
• Don't Know Where to Begin? Fortunately You're Not Alone
• Don’t Quit Your Day Job: 3 Ways to Keep Criticism from Getting to You
• Dreams Can Come True: The 5 Key Lessons to Turning Dreams into Reality
• Earn Money as a Local Tour Guide
• Fascinating Ways to Make a Living Doing What You Love May Be Closer
• Finding Interesting Ways to Make a Living Without a Job
• Get Paid to Play: How to Turn Your Hobby into Your Job
• Getting Funding to Start Your Own Business
• Getting Paid to Speak
• Great Ideas for Financing Your Dream
• Have a Great Idea for a Business? Test the Waters Before Diving In
• Having Trouble Changing Course? The Solution May Not Be What You Think
• Hot Business Trends for 2004… And Beyond:
• Hot Small Business Ideas and Trends for 2005
• How Much Do You Need to Know Before You're an Expert? Part 1 in a 2 Part Series
• How Much Do You Need to Know Before You're an Expert? Part 2 in a 2 Part Series
• How to Dream Big Dreams: Why Wish Upon a Star When You Can Reach for One?
• How to Make Money by Breaking the Rules
• How to Make Money Licensing Your Invention Idea
• How to Turn a Negative Experience Into a Positive Way to Make a Living
• If You Think You Can't Change Course... You're Right
• Innovative Ideas May Be All "In Your Mind"
• Instant Career Change: The Fast and Easy Way to That Great New Career
• Learning From the Dream Makers:Want to Work at What You Love?
• Living Large: How Some Enterprising Souls Are Turning a Trend
• Planting Seeds and Watching Dreams Grow
• Profit from Experience: The Key to Your Right Livelihood
• Profiting Through Affiliation:
• Real Life Entrepreneurs Steal the Show:
• Recreate Your Life: Summer is the Perfect Time to Grow a Dream
• The Garden: Big Dreams Grow From Small Seeds
• The Key to Changing Course is to Start: 6 Tips on How to Get Started
• The Three Simple Things You Need to Realize Your Dream
• The Ultimate Decision: Your Money or Your Life
• Those “Crazy” Business Ideas Often Turn Out to Be the Best
• Turning a Love of Nature Into a Livelihood
• Turning Problems Into Opportunities
• Want to Live Your Dream in 2005? 5 Keys to Changing Course
• What Do You Need for Your Road Trip to Right Livelihood?
• What it Takes to be an "Overnight Success"
• What Keeps You Up at Night? You May be Worrying About All the Wrong Things
• When a Dream Can't Wait:
• When Family Dreams Clash, Find a Way for Everyone to Win
• When It Comes to a Dream, Sometimes "Too Busy" is a Good Thing

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