Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar

Dr. V Brooks Dunbar ("Dr. V") is the CEO and founder of The Center For Confidence, which provides organizational and leadership coaching, training, change management, and professional development services. She is an author, speaker, conversationalist, and leadership confidence coach on a mission to develop more confident leaders, empower individuals to act on their dreams and create life-changing opportunities to help women and all people reach their full potential.

Dr. Dunbar is a highly aware, intuitive, and strategically oriented leader, adviser, coach, and lifestyle manager with more than twenty years of knowledge, education, training, and experience gained in the U.S. and abroad. She has spent more than two decades mentoring and coaching professionals and youth around the globe as a former expatriate and student working, studying, and traveling in Europe, Central America, and South America. She is a fearless advocate for small businesses, entrepreneurship, and leadership equity for women.

In 2017, she authored the motivational book on women and self-leadership titled "DIVA DECISIONS: How to Get from Smart to Intelligent by Claiming Your Power of Choice," and is the creator of Discover Your Confidence Zones, a personal audit system designed to help individuals unleash their power to lead with commanding confidence.

Dr. Dunbar is a certified Academic Life and leadership Coach with a Graduate Certificate in Organizational and Leadership Coaching from Lewis University, Illinois. Her coaching specialty includes student leadership development, confidence coaching for women and professionals, organizational and leadership coaching integrating confidence coaching for productivity and performance, and mindfulness coaching.

She is a member of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) advisory committee at the Forbes School of Business & Technology, University of Arizona Global Campus. In 2020, she was appointed Senior Research Facilitator for the Walker’s Legacy COVID-19 Impact Study, an initiative of the Gates Foundation to survey the effects of COVID-19 on multicultural businesswomen. Current and past memberships include the British and American Academy of Management and the American Society for Training and Development. Dr. Dunbar is a 2010 doctoral fellow of the British Academy of Management and a 2012 visiting researcher at Cranfield University School of Management in England.