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Let Dalisia inspire and guide your teams to create better leadership together.
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“We can dissolve resistance to female leadership one story, one mind, at a time.”
Dalisia specializes in dissolving unconscious bias and resistance to women’s leadership and building vibrant teams and organizations. She is also the author of Strong Women Rising: How to Overcome Resistance, Build Trust, and Change Our World.
Her mission as a speaker is to inspire others to “be the balance that creates better leadership”—regardless of their gender or past perspectives. As a keynote speaker, podcast guest, or instructor, Dalisia will move your audience from misunderstanding and quiet judgment of strong women to a place of deep appreciation and admiration for their gifts.
signature KEYNOTES and workshops
FREE TO LEAD
You Can Be the Balance That Creates Better Leadership
Ideal Audience: Corporate or government teams, leadership forums, and women’s groups.
Value: Learn the origins and impacts of resistance to female leadership, what organizations can do to overcome it, and how talented women can transform their careers and make the impact they were created to make.
We need strong, courageous women to step up, not give up—but that isn’t the only result you’ll get.
This conversation about women leaders expands to the experiences all audience members have had when they weren’t heard or seen for their performance, ideas, or potential. Everyone leaves with a renewed desire to listen better, see the talent around them, manage their egos and insecurities, and to speak up skillfully when their voices are needed.
Takeaways: In this program, your audience will learn…
- How our beliefs about women in leadership are formed
- Why all genders tend to resist strong women in the workplace
- What maternal triangulation and paternal approval seeking look like at work
- Dalisia’s path from frustrated change agent to influential leader
- How helping strong women overcome the Hero-to-Villain cycle helps everyone
FREE TO LEAD can be delivered as a keynote or workshop for your audience.
THE SCIENCE OF SELF-DEFEAT
Overcome Identity Threats and Be Your Best
Ideal Audience: Corporate or government teams, leadership forums, and women’s groups.
Value: Discover how stereotypes and identity threats can inhibit a person’s performance even when others aren’t treating them differently. Learn how we defeat ourselves, how to overcome it, and how others can help.
Whether your teams are fully inclusive or a bit “cliquish,” they may not understand how each person’s social identity can impact how they feel, what they choose to contribute (or avoid contributing), and the ultimate impact they will have on team performance. This talk is packed with real-life data and stories about the power of identity threats that loom over us in every setting.
Through interactive Q&A and/or exercises, your audience will rediscover their voices and shed the dark cloud of “otherness.”
Takeaways: In this program, your audience will learn…
- How social identity and identity threats inhibit performance
- Why teams tend to avoid having the one discussion that matters most
- Research around identity threats, self-defeat, and group behavior
- How teams can work together to overcome the trap of self-silencing
- How leaders can support and coach others to give their best every day
THE SCIENCE OF SELF-DEFEAT can be delivered as a keynote or workshop for your audience.
Custom Keynotes & Workshops
Dalisia prepares custom keynotes and workshops for public and private events that align with her theme of Effective Leadership—or that focus on the topics of Perseverance and Resilience. For more information or to share your ideas with her, please fill out the speaker request form, or secure your spot on her calendar now.
When you book Dalisia, you may also request:
A 60-second Custom Marketing Video pre-event to fire up attendees
TWO calls prior to the event to finalize details for keynote development
A keynote crafted to deliver an unforgettable experience that underscores your theme
A post-event, customized training video and a PDF guide to help attendees take action
Interviews & Podcasts
Podcasts are the perfect platform for personal growth, emerging conversations, and social change. Invite Dalisia to be a guest on your show by filling out a speaker request or getting in touch to book a call below. She joins virtual events from her recording studio or can travel to yours.
Dalisia’s Impact
When Dalisia takes the stage, your audience will see and hear a woman who took the long road from “alpha female on fire” to relaxed, loving, and intentional leader. She infuses humor, inarguable facts, and heart-stopping stories of struggle and triumph into each talk in order to break down ingrained mental models, denial, and emotional barriers.
Dalisia will curate the perfect tone and content for your audience so they will see themselves in her stories and insights into the human condition. Her leadership talks are “no blame/no shame” and leave everyone feeling understood and respected, regardless of their gender, age, race, sexual orientation, or past mistakes. All are welcome and invited to be part of positive change.
Let Dalisia be a catalyst for the mindset shifts and culture that you want to build.
