An author and executive coach, Valerie Sokolosky is a Certified Master Personal Brand Strategist who started Valerie & Company, a Dallas based international leadership development firm in 1981. Since then, she has become known as the expert in her field of strategic personal branding and professional presence. Valerie’s engaging style ignites the spark of enthusiasm in professionals to create a strong presence and personal brand that differentiates them and creates greater success for themselves, their teams and their organizations.

Recognized internationally, she is a sought after executive coach – having received the highly acclaimed position of vetted coach for several of the big four financial firms as well as for Women’s Leadership Exchange.

Over the last two decades Valerie’s firm has received front-page press coverage in the Wall Street Journal and is a respected resource for a number of national publications including Washington Post and Glamour Magazine. She recently served in a leadership advisory role as Publisher for Women’s Enterprise national news magazine and was monthly contributor for ten years to Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine.

Valerie’s 8th book - Do It Right – is listed as a best seller on Amazon.