About Dr. Young, President/CEO

Dr. Young founded Young Enterprises to provide specialized motivational Seminars/Workshops for men and women. Dr. Barbara Young is a highly acclaimed, dynamic, motivational speaker who travels throughout the country and abroad. She skillfully utilizes her life’s experiences to implement fresh and attainable success formulas via extraordinarily soul-stirring seminars and workshops.

Dr. Young has been in the public speaking arena providing motivational talks and speeches to K-12 students, higher education institutions, national organizations, corporations and churches since 1983.

Formerly a retired higher education administrator from the Office of the Chancellor, the California State University System Headquarters, her areas of expertise are: organizational leadership and management, leadership development, team building, conflict resolution, goal setting, and how to build successful relationships. She has developed numerous educational publications and videos for K-12 students.

She quickly advanced in the ranks from being a secretary to one of the highest administrative positions in the California higher education system. She began college at age 15 but did not return to complete her degree until age 37. Upon earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2 years, she immediately entered a Master’s degree program and completed it in four years; She then entered a doctoral program in Educational Planning, Policy, and Administration at the University of Southern California, (USC) one of the nation’s most prestigious colleges. Dr. Young’s successful and distinguished career in higher education of more than 30 years includes serving as the Assistant Dean, and Associate Dean, in Academic Affairs, and later as the Statewide Director of Alumni Relations and Community Relations in the Division of University Advancement for the California State University System headquarters in Long Beach, California, USA. The California State University system is the largest system in higher education in the country with more than 420,000 enrolled students on twenty-three campuses throughout the state of California.

Additionally, Dr. Young has served for more than 17 years as a University Adjunct Professor in the School of Business and Public Administration at the California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Administrative and Leadership Behavior, Psychological Dimensions of Leadership Behavior and Human Resource Management. She is involved in a number of professional organizations and has served on numerous boards that include the following:

• National Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine (IAMMM) (2003-present)
• National Strengthening and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certification Commission (2002-present)
• Goodwill Board of Directors, Long Beach/South Bay (past Vice President) (1999-2004)
• Leadership America Board of Directors (past President) (2000-2002)
• Leadership America Board of Directors (1999-2004)
• California Board of Respiratory Care (CBRC) (1994-1997)
• National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) (1997-2002)

She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Rolling Hills/Palos Verde Chapter, and founded the Long Beach Nu Lambda Chapter of Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority. Dr. Young has been listed in Who's Who In Black America since 1977.