Retired CEO of Girls, Inc.; Board Member on four Fortune 500 companies
Joyce Roché has been a trailblazer in the corporate world for 25 years, as Avon’s first African American female vice president; COO of Carson Products Company, now part of L’Oreal; the former CEO of the national nonprofit Girls Inc.; and a board member on four Fortune 500 companies.
Her new book is The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013), a business memoir that explores the author’s own struggle with impostor syndrome early in her career and includes interviews with more than a dozen prominent business leaders who have also grappled with feelings of self-doubt.