Valencia Ray, M.D., president of Collaborative Change Catalysts LLC, was an eye surgeon and successful business owner for over 20 years before selling her medical practice to now help corporate leaders and entrepreneurs eliminate “cataracts of the mind and heart”, that block them from seeing their true potential.  She is a rare blend of inspirational speaker, facilitator/trainer and business/life integration coach with background training in science and real life experience. Valencia inspires others to expand the vision for their life to live more joyfully and reclaim their passion, purpose and peace by living as their Authentic Self.

Her dynamic, relevant messages and trainings inspire action and set her apart from the crowd to help corporate leaders and entrepreneurs navigate the winds of change in their business and personal life balance. Her business/life integration consulting expertise includes collaborative leadership development, team building/personal development and work/life balance integration. Dr. Ray offers a unique combination of brain research expertise and real-world business experience to her work with clients and organizations. She shares with them the tools they need to live life more joyfully, confidently and to improve productivity with greater ease.

Valencia completed her medical residency in eye surgery training at the University of Chicago before also completing a cornea transplant fellowship at the Kresge Eye Institute.  She then returned to Chicago to work for a healthcare corporation as she started her own medical practice in 1991.  As she developed her entrepreneurial skills, she also used her business as a “mini-laboratory” to grow personally and applied her insights on how to use her understanding of the brain and self-awareness to tap into more of her true potential and overcome ineffective mindsets and behaviors.  In 2007 she sold her successful, turnkey medical business on her own cash terms without negotiating to now continue into the next phase of her life purpose which is to help others to expand the vision for their business and life.

As a speaker, she has a gift for simplifying complex science and sharing it in a way that is compelling, interesting and life changing. She is the author of Empower Up! Retrain your Brain to Reclaim your True Personal Power. She has been married for over 20 years and has two teen-aged children.

A Message from Valencia Ray

I have personally experienced the truth, “As a man/woman thinks (thought) in their heart (feels/believes), so is he/she”. As an effect of my childhood struggle with insecurity, rejection (imagined or otherwise) and lack of confidence I lived with chronic thoughts and feelings of, “not enoughness”. This felt true no matter how much personal and professional external “success” I accomplished. I decided well over a decade ago to begin to uncover what I discovered to be “perceptual blind spots” that were blocking me from inner peace and limiting my greater potential in leadership, business and relationships. It was also keeping my work/life balance totally out of control.

With the same determination that I used to become an eye surgeon and business owner, I turned my focus to getting to the root cause of my thinking and how to change it. By a holistic approach using science, intuition and spiritual practices, I was able to experience “quantum leap” change – from the inside out! I have come to call these limiting thoughts/perceptions, “cataracts of the soul” as I began to understand better how our brain and mind work due to scientific research that later became available. Our brain is the true “window to the soul”, not the eyes. This inner transformation helped me to lead teams in conflict and bring them to a place of mutual respect and alignment that lead to excellent customer service and enthusiastic work performance.  My client base and bottom line measurably doubled. Due to changes in employee mindset and personal growth, my medical practice won the community service award for outstanding service due to improved efficiencies and service delivery, which of course is a team effort.  I have also become a happy person – really grateful – which means so much to my quality of life and relationships.

I now combine my entrepreneurial and leadership skills with my personal growth and transformation skills to help leaders and entrepreneurs to expand their vision for their life to create the life they yearn for – and to do it being their authentic self – Magnificently!  I have come to realize that the “self”, the leader, I was seeking to be was already within me; I simply needed to learn how to become more self-aware to change my perceptions.

Are you ready to transform your life, work at an optimum level of productivity and purpose, positively impact the world through your leadership and business and achieve greater overall success?
Contact Dr. Ray!