Our Team

Dr. Valerie Murphy

Founder/Managing Principal

Navigating those high-impact career decisions has never been easier than with Dr. Murphy’s innovative approach to combining your strengths with her trademark tools designed to help you take your career to new heights. Dr. Murphy is deeply invested in her clients’ career development and personal growth through her company, Leadership Works of Georgia.

For over 30 years, Dr. Murphy has guided students, individuals, and corporate teams through the roadblocks preventing them from achieving breakthrough results. She helps clients attain their success by using technology to power her proprietary approach to decision-making, self-empowerment strategies, and leadership training. She is at the forefront of providing people with the tools necessary to harness their decision-making through the development of behavioral tools coupled with Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy techniques to curate their successful paths.

As a writer and researcher studying the relationship between career decision-making self-efficacy and emotional intelligence, Dr. Murphy’s work has always remained true to understanding the science of behavior and how it can benefit individuals in navigating the real world.  Her work with youth and adult developmental (whether sports or technology) coaching leads back to knowing self. 

Dr. Murphy holds a Doctoral degree in Business, a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in Project Management, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Management.

As any great coach knows, Dr. Murphy understands that a healthy business-life balance is crucial to successful decision-making. As a community leader, Dr. Murphyl is rooted in her faith, integrity, and family and uses those values as guidance when working with the underserved. She is a wife of over 35 years, married to her best friend, and counts her family and children among her biggest supporters.