About this Event
You’ve built a successful career. You’re ambitious, capable, and you deliver. Yet something frustrating happens when someone asks what you’re great at or what you’ve accomplished: the answer is really hard to pinpoint. You can’t remember what you’ve done, but you certainly know what you haven’t done.
Or maybe you're the person who moves the goalpost as soon as you hit it. The accomplishment doesn’t have time to register before your attention shifts to what’s next.
Or maybe it’s both.
That’s Achievement Dysmorphia: a distorted view of your success that leads you to discount, minimize, or quickly move past your accomplishments.
Left unchecked, Achievement Dysmorphia is costly. Overthinking, overanalyzing, and questioning whether you’ve done enough is a huge energy leak. You might be leaving money on the table by underselling your value. Or you might be limiting your next move because your brain believes a distorted story.
Join me and a group of women leaders in NYC for an interactive workshop on Achievement Dysmorphia. You’ll leave seeing your success and what makes you exceptional more clearly, with tools to keep a distorted view of your past from limiting what you believe is possible next.
Over the course of three hours, you’ll:
- Understand why Achievement Dysmorphia happens. Explore the psychology and neuroscience behind why our brains normalize accomplishments, discount what comes naturally, and keep moving the goalposts.
- Identify how it shows up for you. Recognize your personal Achievement Dysmorphia archetype and how these patterns shape your experience of success.
- Uncover what you’ve stopped seeing. Leave with a personalized picture of your strengths, capabilities, and accomplishments you have normalized or overlooked.
- Learn how to interrupt and change the pattern. Leave with practical tools to catch Achievement Dysmorphia in real time, challenge your instinctive response, and begin responding differently.
- Bring the lens back to your team. Recognize how Achievement Dysmorphia shows up in the people you lead, and use what you learn to support them.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have language for something you've been experiencing for years, a clearer picture of what makes you exceptional, and practical tools to intercept your Achievement Dysmorphia patterns.
What women are saying
More than 500 women have experienced an Achievement Dysmorphia workshop. Here’s what they’ve said:
“I’ve attended what seems like a million professional workshops, but this one felt different. It was authentic, thought-provoking, and immediately actionable."
“One of the best and most fascinating talks I’ve been to in the last five years.”
“The reframing exercise was game-changing and eye-opening.”
I hear most often: “I wish we had more time.” This workshop is that deeper experience.
Who this is for
This workshop is designed for women who have built their careers by taking on more, solving hard problems, and moving quickly to whatever comes next. It’s particularly for those who find it much easier to recognize the strengths and accomplishments of the people around them than their own. Whether you're actively leading a team or in transition, you bring a valuable perspective to the conversation.
And if Imposter Syndrome never felt like the right term to you, Achievement Dysmorphia is probably why.
About the Facilitator
Jaime Ellis is a PCC executive coach and leadership development consultant. She works with leaders from high-potential through C-suite on executive presence, communication and influence, and leadership effectiveness. Her clients include leaders from some of the world’s most recognized companies, including Google, Workday, Fidelity, and Taco Bell. Previously, she was a marketing executive in the B2B tech space, leading teams through periods of change like product launches, IPOs, and acquisitions.
Jaime is the creator of Achievement Dysmorphia, an original concept born from a pattern she saw again and again in her work: highly accomplished people who were objectively successful on paper, but struggled to see or articulate their own success. She has spent years researching that gap through her work with leaders, writing, focus groups, and workshops, building a body of work to help people see their success more clearly.
Why this workshop
Achievement Dysmorphia is an original concept Jaime has researched and developed for years through writing, focus groups, and work with leaders. She's brought this work to more than 500 women, and the most consistent feedback is: "I wish we had more time." This is that deeper experience.
We’ll begin with 30 minutes of coffee and connection at 9:00 AM. The workshop starts promptly at 9:30 AM and goes until 12:30 PM.
Event venue & nearby stays
Chief, 13 East 19th Street, New York, United States
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