Candace Doby

Candace Doby is a national speaker, mentor, and author. She works with universities and organizations across the U.S. to help youth build courage in themselves. Candace combines a decade of research on courage with her experiences leading marketing teams at a global brand and solo traveling to more than 20 countries. This unique combination equips her with the easily digestible and implementable strategies she shares with youth and young adults to help them courageously lead, explore the world, and be themselves.

In her own acts of courage, Candace has traveled around the world by herself, launched the greeting card and gift company Pep Talker, and quit a successful marketing career to pursue her vision of making courage fun to talk about and easy to digest.

Candace is a former speaker for Monster’s Making It Count Program where she visited high schools and colleges throughout the U.S. to teach students tools of success. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is based in Atlanta, GA.