Victoria Labalme | Performing Artist and Performance Strategist for the world's top leaders & brands.

Victoria Labalme

Performing Artist and Performance Strategist for the world's top leaders & brands.

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Victoria Labalme
Biography

Victoria Labalme is a master at helping people at all levels dramatically elevate their ability to communicate, connect, come alive…and win 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, 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.

A member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, Victoria is known for her customized Keynote Performances and workshops around the world. Her proprietary systems and strategies have been embraced by top teams at more than 700 organizations including Starbucks, Microsoft, PayPal, Verizon, Coca-Cola, Chase, L’Oreal, Oracle, Lowe’s, the World Bank, universities, cultural institutions, and not-for-profits.

Through her Rock The Room® and High Performance Communications coaching, She is a trusted consultant to hundreds of elite individuals, top teams, and C-suite executives at global brands, helping them knock their presentations out of the park for high-stakes meetings, calls, pitches, keynotes, and video communications––both virtual and live.

Victoria is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, as well as the founder of Risk Forward®, Rock The Room® and High Performance Communications. In addition to her keynotes, she offers a full suite of learning experiences, courses, workshops, and consulting

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Featured Keynote Programs

RISK FORWARD® COMMUNICATE > 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.

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

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.

RISK FORWARD® Leading in a New Landscape

There’s no question the world has changed.

Leaders are faced with an ever-evolving work landscape—new roles, new expectations and new goals.

Team members are dispersed and disconnected. And change is increasing at unprecedented levels.

Many people are facing burnout. Many are re-evaluating their job opportunities and lives. Meeting-fatigue is everywhere.

Given all this, how can people lead effectively?

How can they inspire effective teamwork and engage those around them?

And how can they achieve the intended outcomes when the target keeps moving?

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 teams; dramatically improve teamwork
Create a strong culture, even with a remote and hybrid workforce
Inspire people to take action and ownership
Innovate and encourage innovation
Instill an entrepreneurial mindset in their teams
Lead with trust, empathy, care, and compassion
Foster a culture of wellness and psychological safety
Listen effectively with 3V Listening Skills
Set a strong vision in spite of an ever-shifting landscape
Onboard new members effectively
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.

Risk Forward... and Rock Your Sales

There’s no question the sales landscape has changed.

With the lack of in-person interaction, a shifting economy, and the strain of learning new skills, sales teams today are often overwhelmed and emotionally spent.

Prospects, clients and customers are cautious; many are meeting-fatigued.

And burnout is everywhere.

So what does your team need now?

The ability to face their fears and take action

. . .to innovate

. . .to Risk Forward.

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

The most successful sales professionals 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, 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.

Victoria Labalme
Featured Book

Risk Forwardby Victoria Labalme

Risk Forward

by Victoria Labalme

Some people in life know exactly what they want to achieve. Risk Forward is a book for the rest of us.

Many of us live in a world that's obsessed with planning, achieving, and goal setting. But how do you move forward in times when your goals aren't yet clear, your plan is still unfolding, or you can't quite see the path ahead?

Presentation Strategist and Performing Artist Victoria Labalme has an answer to this question that's both reassuring and radically freeing.

Using skills she developed through 25 years of professional stage and screen performances, Victoria leverages her arts background to share her unique Risk Forward(R) methodology: a series of principles that have led to stunning results with individuals and organizations around the world.

In these pages, you'll discover how you can make your next move even when you're not sure where you're going. And you'll see how "risking forward" into the unknown can bring results beyond what you could have imagined.

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