Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar

Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar Biography

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.

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Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar Speaking Topics

Are You A Tiger or A Fish? - Women, Power & The Confidence to Lead

Learn how to Build Your Leadership Skills with commanding confidence. Executive Leadership Coach, Dr. Valecia ""Dr. V"" Dunbar, will share how she helps women business professionals, leaders and managers to develop their leadership mastery. During this presentation, participants will understand:
- How to leverage your “BQ” and the intellectual, social, and influential confidence that directly impacts your company's bottom line.
- Strategies and winning practices for women an underrepresented groups to increase Business Acumen (BQ)
- Practices for navigating limiting mindsets and self-beliefs that shake confidence and diminish the inherent power to lead
Renewable/Relational Confidence: Are Your Career Relationships Missing The Mark

Dr. V discusses proprietary research that explored the degree to which women were confident that their professional relationships were moving them closer to their career goals. These relationships were identified as coach, mentor, champion, and sponsor relationships which were defined in the survey.

Women gave mixed reviews on whether professional relationships are moving them closer to their goals. The study found that among women who identified as having a coach, mentor, sponsor, or champion, over the past three months, only 14.8 percent were fully career-confident prior to the relationship. During and after the professional relationship ended, the number of respondents with full career-confidence increased to ten or 37 percent.

Dr. V discusses key findings and solutions to improve Relational Confidence by implementing strategies to best leverage relationships, increase Social Capital and Social Equity.

Key Findings Discussed:
- More Than a Third of Women Report Professional Relationships Boost confidence
- Women Seek Multiple Types of Professional Relationships
- Leadership Skills: Where Women Gained the Most Confidence
With all groups combined, leadership was the skill that received the greatest level of increased confidence followed by problem solving and decision making. Of the groups that included champions and/or sponsors, these relationships focused on leadership first followed by equal attention given to building confidence in communication and problem-solving skills.

Lack Confidence: Why High Self Esteem Isn’t Helping It

Dr. V discusses strategies to build confidence with youth advocacy leaders and groups by sharing research and her personal system for developing more confident youth leaders.

The discussion distinguishes between self esteem as a value system and self confidence as a performance and self belief system. The importance of clarifying these value and belief systems for youth development, and tools educators and advocates can use to implement best practices in their programs and professional development training.

Financial Confidence or Financial Freedom: Start with the End in Mind

As a business advisor and financial coach, Dr. V discusses why women are pursuing entrepreneurship to create economic equity but are leaving nearly 80% of their capacity on the table. She discusses her work with women entrepreneurs and the issues she has seen firsthand. She says, "Start with the end in mind. Build better revenue models." She offers five ways to close the revenue gap and increase economic equity.

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Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar Videos

Black Business Playbook: A Simple Guide to Confident Leadership

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Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar Books

Diva Decisions: How to Get From Smart to Intelligent by Claiming Your Power of Choice

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Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Are You A Tiger or A Fish? - Women, Power & The Confidence to Lead, Renewable/Relational Confidence: Are Your Career Relationships Missing The Mark, Lack Confidence: Why High Self Esteem Isn’t Helping It and Financial Confidence or Financial Freedom: Start with the End in Mind. The estimated speaking fee range to book Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar generally travels from Jacksonville, FL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kristie Kennedy, Michelle D. Reines, Danelle Delgado, Deanna Singh and Kelly Lovell. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Valecia "Dr. V" Brooks Dunbar for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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