Meet Meag-gan
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
-Maya Angelou
I support Black and marginalized communities to resist oppressive systems, and reclaim self-worth
My gift is unearthing the truth from the lies we have internalized. The goal is to thrive and contribute our healthy presence to the world. I achieve this by providing consulting, speaking, and therapy to heal people, change systems, and create liberation for all.
Professional Bio
*My worthiness as a person is not based on any of these achievements*
Dr. Meag-gan O’Reilly (she/her) is a licensed psychologist, DEI consultant, speaker, and CEO of Inherent Value Psychology INC, a California-based consultancy rooted in the reclamation of worth and mattering for marginalized communities. Her career began in the therapy room but expanded as she recognized that distress is often more about positionality than pathology. For Dr. Meag-gan, healing must be structural—not just individual. Her work spans academia, corporate consulting, clinical education, and community organizing.
Dr. Meag-gan completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where she later served for six years as a staff psychologist and Coordinator of Outreach, Equity, and Inclusion. Among her pioneering contributions: she founded Stanford’s first satellite mental health clinic for Black students across the African Diaspora, co-created the Outreach and Social Justice Seminar to train culturally conscious clinicians, and developed courses on sustainable productivity and disentangling self-worth from achievement. She continues as a Wellness Lecturer at the Stanford School of Medicine and co-teaches Wellness 141: Thriving While BIPOC, an independently funded course for Black, Indigenous, and students of color.
Nationally, Dr. Meag-gan supports the wellbeing of Black students through her ongoing partnership with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) STEM Scholars Program. Her program For Us Forums created virtual healing spaces and conversations with community leaders for students during COVID-19. Similarly, her wellness curriculum with Stanford Racial Equity to Advance Community Health (R.E.A.C.H.) will be piloted across several HBCUs.
She currently serves as the DEI Consultant for The Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, Stanford’s flagship graduate leadership fellowship focused on integrating inclusion into global leadership. Before transitioning from Stanford, Dr. Meag-gan was also a founding member of The Black Coalition at Stanford, where she led assessment efforts as part of a scrappy, determined collective of staff seeking institutional accountability. Her Black Stanford Experience Inventory revealed key gaps in HR data on Black staff retention and wellbeing—findings that were presented directly to the university president and continue to inform interventions today.
As a sought-after DEI and mental health consultant, Dr. Meag-gan has worked with institutions such as Stanford Law School, where she refined her consultation model: Listen. Learn. Liberate., which pioneered white humility groups, BIPOC healing circles, and integrated solidarity spaces for coalition building. Her corporate portfolio includes Google, where she designed The Gathering Space, a six-week seminar launched in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd. The program has served over 700 Black Googlers and was set to expand to international offices before recent federal rollbacks on DEI. She has also consulted with Virgin Pulse, Lucasfilm, and San Francisco Ballet on culture change, rupture repair, and organizational healing.
Favorite Color?
Green. All shades.
Favorite Food?
Seafood.
Favorite TV Show?
Twilight Zone- the old school black & white version.
What are you proud of?
Accepting myself as I grow and believing I have something worth contributing to the world.
Hobby?
Writing
Core Personal Values
Compassion for self and others
Genuine connections
Creativity
Curiosity
Cultivating courage
Play, adventure and leisure
Sharing and receiving wisdom
Autonomy
Movement
Rest and reflection
Inherent Value Psychology Inc.
Founded in 2017 by Mr. Logan O’Reilly and Dr. Meag-gan O’Reilly, IVP made its debut on the TEDx stage in September of 2018. The TED Talk: Enough is Enough: The Power of Your Inherent Value, presented to the world that the ability to be self-valuing is a psychologically healthier and more fulfilling way to live. However, systems of oppression and unjust societal norms target Black and marginalized communities. This results in having a conditional, “prove-it” stance toward ourselves and others. Many of us will try to prove our worth by ceaselessly striving for higher levels of academic achievement, wealth, beauty, and overall approval and external validation. The difficult work of IVP is enlightening all individuals to recognize and reclaim worth as a birthright that cannot be granted or taken away. All other types of health and wellness flow from this belief of personal significance.
Thus far, Inherent Value Psychology has traveled nationwide and internationally providing workshops, training, keynotes, retreats and system changing DEI consultation partnerships to universities, high schools, nonprofits and tech companies. IVP is an innovative consultancy providing both BIPOC Healing Circles and White Humility Circles to equip white people with the awareness and tools to dismantle the systems from which they benefit. From one-on-one dynamics up to large systems, Inherent Value Psychology has begun the self-worth revolution!