You have great skills, you work hard and you’re respected – but you don’t feel worthy of it. You feel like a fraud and that at any moment someone’s going to discover your inadequacies. Welcome to the imposter syndrome.
Suzanne Mercier is an author and behaviour change expert and says that a lot of business leaders feel this way and she examines it in her book “Liberate Leadership: How the Imposter Syndrome undermines leadership capability and what to do about it.” But far from being an observer, she’s experienced the imposter syndrome herself as well.