Culture Conversations with REMCo : Impostor Syndrome, A Conversation with Joyce Roche'

An informative discussion with author Joyce Roche on “impostor syndrome” among librarians and other professionals. Joyce M. Roche rose from humble circumstances to earn an Ivy League MBA and become the first female African-American vice president of Avon, president of Carson Products hair care company, and CEO of the national nonprofit Girls Inc. But despite these accomplishments, she felt like a fraud. She worked more and more, had less and less of a personal life, and was never able to enjoy her success. In her deeply personal memoir, The Empress Has No Clothes, Roché shares her lifelong struggle with what she now recognizes as “the impostor syndrome,” a condition that plagues successful people in all walks of life.