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Outside the Job Box Career Change Expert

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Main Areas:Career Change Expert
Best Sellers:Finding Your True Calling
Career Focus:Self-Employment

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.

You can escape the 9-to-5 world and enjoy more control over your time and your life. You can find ways to do what you love and get paid for it.

Lots of people have…

…like Beverly who finally started listening to what her friends had been telling her for years and pursued her love of decorating. Today she goes into people’s homes and shows them how they can redecorate on a shoestring budget using the furnishings they already have.

…like Rachel who, at 24, was poised to apply to an MBA program because she “didn’t know what else to do” with her life. Rachel did end up going back to school… but it was to realize her real dream of having her own dog-training business.

…or Bob, a former public school teacher who now runs snowmobiling tours in Quebec in the winter and sells vintage car parts out of his barn on his farm in rural Massachusetts in the summer.

Jump-Start Your New Life Right Here, Right Now

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Valerie Young

After spending a mind-numbing seven years making a mind-numbing 90 mile a day commute to my even more mind-numbing corporate job – and then successfully getting out – I’ve dedicated my life’s work to help others to the same. ( Read more )

Since 1996 ChangingCourse.com has helped thousands of people realize their dream of going from having a boss to being their own boss by learning how to turn their ideas and interests into income.

The mission of Changing Course goal is simple really: To give my customers the tools, information, ideas, and support you need to create a more satisfying and balanced life doing work you really love… on your own terms.

Getting Started With Valerie Young

How to Work When, Where, and How You Want

“Too often we follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget, that whichever way we go, the price is the same: in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.” ~Paulo Coelho

Are You Ready to Finally Follow a Path of Your Own Choosing?

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My free eBook, How to Work When, Where, and How You Want is my gift to you… simply sign up at http://ChangingCourse.com/bonus.htm !