Embody Your Expertise
With Dr Catherine Sykes
Why Dealing with Imposter Syndrome Matters in the Age of AI
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A six-session Performance Development webinar series · Spring 2027
Embody Your Expertise with Dr Catherine Sykes is one of six planned sessions. The series will cover personal and professional performance development. The other five sessions, including their topics and speakers, are to be confirmed (TBC) and will be decided over the next few months, ready for a spring 2027 release.
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Why Dealing with Imposter Syndrome Matters in the Age of AI
One confirmed session. Five more to be announced.
Five further sessions
Topics and speakers will be decided over the next few months, ready for the series’ planned spring 2027 release.
ABOUT THE WEBINAR
Adapt to disruption without retreating into proving mode.
AI is changing the legal profession at extraordinary speed. Navigating that disruption requires more than learning new technology: lawyers must also adapt how they think, work, collaborate, lead and use their expertise.
In this practical and psychologically informed webinar, Dr Catherine Sykes explores how uncertainty can activate imposter syndrome and push familiar professional strengths into overuse. The focus is on recognising these unhelpful patterns and reclaiming relational, moral and adaptive intelligence: the capacities to build trust and understand others, exercise judgement about what matters, and remain open to learning and change.
For firms, the webinar provides a starting point for a shared conversation about the skills lawyers need to perform well in an AI era. Multi-licence access enables colleagues to develop a common language for these capacities, consider what gets in their way under pressure, and identify how to strengthen them in everyday practice.
YOU WILL LEARN
Practical insight you can use personally and with your team.
- ✓ Identify which established ways of thinking and working remain adaptive during disruption
- ✓ Recognise how imposter syndrome can drive proving, perfectionism and over-responsibility
- ✓ Notice protection mode in the body, attention and thinking
- ✓ Bring professional strengths back into their optimum zone under pressure
- ✓ Develop greater connection, discernment and psychological flexibility
- ✓ Embody expertise without continually feeling the need to prove it
MEET YOUR PRESENTER
Dr Catherine Sykes
Chartered Coaching Psychologist
With more than 25 years’ experience, Catherine specialises in supporting professionals in high-pressure environments, particularly partners and leaders within the legal profession. Her work combines practical experience with evidence-based psychological research to help people navigate demanding and changing workplaces.
Her background spans the NHS, a decade in academia at City University and extensive work with talented professionals in the City of London. Her expertise includes leadership psychology, CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, somatic psychology and interpersonal neurobiology.
- Accredited by the BABCP
- Registered with the HCPC
- Associate Fellow of the BPS
YOUR DELEGATE PACK▶Webinar recording ▤Presentation slides ✎Lecture and reflection notes ✓CPD certificate
Everything needed to continue the learning.
Planned for spring 2027, with 12 months’ access from release.
Keep Catherine’s key concepts and reflection questions available.
Prompts to apply the learning personally or in a team discussion.
An individual completion record for every named learner.
TEAM LEARNING
Enquire about the seriesTurn the webinar into a useful team conversation.
Register your team’s interest in the forthcoming series. Tell us what would be useful for your colleagues, or ask about bringing personal and professional performance development into your firm.