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Victoria Labalme      

Hall of Fame Speaker, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author & Strategic Performance Coach

Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Hall of Fame Speaker and show business veteran Victoria Labalme helps people dramatically elevate their ability to communicate, connect and come alive. She shows individuals at all levels how to uncover their hidden genius and express themselves in memorable ways, aligning with the organization’s mission and winning over the people they serve.

Her results-driven approach offers a strategic blend of art and business that taps into her decades of performing arts experience: HBO, Caroline’s on Broadway, comedy clubs, television commercials, one-woman shows and documentary films. Her creative projects have received critical acclaim from The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, BBC, CBS, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Good Morning America.

Labalme is known for her high-energy, engaging, and relevant Keynote Performances, and workshops. Her proprietary systems and strategies have been embraced by top teams at more than 700 organizations including Starbucks, Microsoft, PayPal, Verizon, Coca-Cola, Chase, McDonald’s, L’Oreal, Oracle, Lowe’s, New York Life Insurance, State Farm, Nationwide, MDRT, Lincoln Financial, American Heart Association, Optum, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the World Bank, government agencies, universities, cultural institutions, and not-for-profits.

As a trusted consultant, she has been the strategic performance coach to hundreds of elite individuals––C-suite executives, industry experts and top teams ––for their high-stakes meetings, pitches, keynotes and virtual presentations.

A graduate of Stanford University, Labalme is the author of the Wall Street Journal Bestselling book, RISK FORWARD, and the founder of RISK FORWARD® and ROCK THE ROOM® offering a full suite of products and services that have led to stunning results around the world.

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RISK FORWARD® Leading in a New Landscape

Leading in a New Landscape

COLLABORATE > CONNECT > COME ALIVE

There’s no question the world has changed.

Leaders are faced with an ever-evolving work landscape. You may have restructured parts of the organization, developed new systems and brought on new people.

There’s so much possibility.

Given all this, how can people adapt to change and lead effectively?

How can they inspire teamwork, foster resilience, and win together?

Now more than ever, it’s essential to Risk Forward.

The most successful companies, creative endeavors, individuals and organizations are those who have the courage to go where others have not been before.

Using skills she developed through 25 years of professional stage, screen, and comedy performances, Victoria leverages her background—from Broadway to Hollywood and C-suites to top sales teams—to share her proprietary systems that have led to stunning results in leaders and teams around the world.

With gripping storytelling, comedic highlights, and custom-crafted content, Victoria brings decades of stage mastery to your event.

Attendees are laughing, learning and taking notes.

Each keynote is:

100% custom-crafted to meet your intended outcomes. filled with practical, immediately applicable take-away tools. engaging, entertaining, humor filled, high energy and interactive. Your leaders will learn to:

  • Empower & engage their team; dramatically improve teamwork
  • Improve connection and collaboration, even with a remote and hybrid workforce
  • Inspire people to take action and ownership
  • Foster a culture of resilience, wellness and psychological safety
  • Encourage innovation
  • Instill an entrepreneurial mindset in their teams
  • Lead with trust, empathy, care, and compassion
  • Listen effectively with 3V Listening Skills
  • Give team members a sense of purposefulness
  • Bring out the best in others
  • Reconnect with what really matters

Participants will leave with immediately applicable tools— empowered to lead confidently, engage their teams and achieve remarkable results.

FORMATS – LIVE & VIRTUAL

  • Keynotes
  • Breakouts & Workshops
  • Online learning courses and videos
  • Custom-crafted VIP events

RISK FORWARD®… and Rock Your Sales

COLLABORATE > CONNECT > COME ALIVE

There’s no question the sales, consulting, and advising landscape has changed:

virtual meetings, a shifting economy, new systems and structures.

What do your people need now?

The ability to take action

. . .to innovate

. . .to Risk Forward.

Now more than ever, to win out over the competition, it’s critical to develop people’s courage, confidence, competence, and communication skills.

The most successful sales professionals are those who go the distance; who tap into their own hidden genius; and who approach their work with authenticity, integrity, and a true commitment to serving the needs of their customer/client.

Using skills she developed through 25 years of professional stage, screen, and comedy performances, Victoria leverages her background—from Broadway to Hollywood and C-suites to top sales teams—to share her proprietary systems that have led to stunning results around the world.

With gripping storytelling, comedic highlights, and custom-crafted content, Victoria brings decades of stage mastery to your event.

Attendees are laughing, learning and taking notes.

Each keynote is:

  • 100% custom-crafted to meet your intended outcomes.
  • filled with practical, immediately applicable take-away tools.
  • engaging, entertaining, high energy, humor filled and interactive.

Based on your specific needs, your sales team members will learn to:

  • Use the hybrid model of virtual + live to their advantage
  • Stand out from the competition
  • Express their value proposition
  • Listen effectively with 3V Listening Skills
  • Engage prospects and clients in a unique and compelling way
  • Be innovative
  • Maximize your current selling/consulting systems
  • Select and tell stories to help close the sale
  • Harness courage
  • Increase confidence
  • Be the person people buy from, remember, and refer

Participants will leave with immediately applicable techniques they can implement the next day.

They’ll feel empowered, ready to take action and achieve remarkable results.

RISK FORWARD®

COLLABORATE > CONNECT > COME ALIVE

Ideal for Opening & Closing Your Event Looking for a high-energy speaker to open or close your event?

Whether you need a keynote to kick things off and set the tone for the days ahead . . .

. . . or whether you need someone to send everyone off with a positive outlook, empowered, emboldened and eager to take on the challenges ahead

. . . Victoria is the perfect choice.

Using skills she developed through 25 years of professional stage, screen, and comedy performances, Victoria leverages her background—from Broadway to Hollywood and from C-Suites to world class organizations—to share her proprietary systems and strategies that have led to stunning results around the world.

With gripping storytelling, comedic highlights, and custom-crafted content, Victoria brings decades of stage mastery to your event.

Attendees are laughing, learning and taking notes. They’ll be captivated . . . profoundly touched . . . and emotionally moved.

Each keynote is:

  • 100% custom-crafted to meet your intended outcomes.
  • filled with practical, immediately applicable take-away tools.
  • engaging, entertaining, humor filled, high energy and interactive.

Based on your specific event vision, Victoria will incorporate shrewd insights and practical take-aways that your attendees can use the very next day…and for the weeks and months ahead.

Possible themes include:

  • Connection
  • Collaboration
  • Teamwork
  • Resilience / Wellness
  • Listening Skills
  • Innovation
  • Engagement
  • Purposefulness

Custom-crafting each keynote, Victoria will immerse herself in your organization, collaborate closely with your events team, study your website and materials, share content options to get your input, show up early, and weave in the specifics you want and need to make sure she knocks it out of the park.

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