Biography

Victoria Labalme is a master at helping people at all levels dramatically elevate their ability to communicate effectively at work and in life. She shows individuals and organizations how to uncover their hidden gifts and express them in memorable ways.

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, New York Life Insurance, the World Bank, universities, cultural institutions, and not-for-profits.

She is a trusted consultant to hundreds of entrepreneurs, industry experts, and C-suite executives at global brands, improving their messaging for high-stakes meetings, keynotes, video communications, pitches, and virtual presentations.

Victoria is author the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Risk Forward––a full color, book “experience.” She is the founder of both Risk Forward® and Rock The Room® offering a full suite of live and online learning experiences, workshops, keynotes, and VIP private consulting: www.VictoriaLabalme.com. 

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RISK FORWARD®

Harness Uncertainty. Take Action. Express Your Inner Genius.

Performing Arts Principles to Transform Your Business Performance


LEADERSHIP – SALES – TEAMS


We live in an era when conditions are in constant flux, people are experiencing internal angst, and uncertainty prevails. Competition, speed, and change are increasing at unprecedented levels.


Victoria’s counterintuitive approach to all this is riveting, surprising, and effective.



The key to success is not in how quickly we can lock in fixed plans, but rather the opposite: how we can approach our business as an art — navigate uncertainty and Risk Forward® to achieve remarkable results.


In her landmark keynote and forthcoming book, she shares unconventional business insights to help people perform at their best and achieve sustainable growth

through a surprising blend of art and business:


Along the way she shows:

• How goal setting can lead you astray — if it’s not done right

• Why decisiveness is overrated — and how to harness the wisdom of indecision

• And that uncertainty is not the enemy, but a potential asset



In the current landscape, leadership requires fluidity; teamwork requires adaptability; and interactions — whether in sales or customer service, hospitality or healthcare — require the ability to create a memorable experience.



What people need, thus, are not step-by-step formulas but reliable, effective, guiding principles that they can apply in any situation to engage their brilliance and grow the business.



Using skills she developed through 25 years of professional stage and screen performances, Victoria leverages her background — from Broadway to Hollywood — to share her unique Risk Forward® methodology, that has led to stunning results in organizations around the world.


With gripping storytelling, comedic highlights and shrewd business insights, Victoria brings decades of stage mastery to your event.



In her Keynote Performance, Victoria takes the audience on a profound journey. Attendees are laughing, learning and taking notes. They leave empowered and inspired, having internalized proven strategies to take action and harness the innate talents that currently lie dormant within.


As part of the prep, Victoria listens to your needs, studies your organization, does a deep dive questionnaire and then selects the specific Risk Forward® content that will most resonate with your audience. She then crafts unique bits, learns your acronyms, weaves in your themes, and puts together a fully customized, unforgettable keynote experience.



Risk Forward. Reconnect with What Matters Most. And Reap Unimaginable Rewards.


• Ideal for opening or closing conferences

• Keynotes, Half Day, Full Day and Multi-Day workshops

• Audience can be any size



YOU WILL LEARN:


• The #1 strategy top directors use to foster high level performance

• The key to rapid growth that leading artists use & that organizations must embrace

• How to “stop time” for those you serve

• Broadway strategies to perform in the face of change and truly connect

• How to cultivate a culture of empathy, collaboration and tolerance so that people experience the psychological safety required to Risk Forward and express their inner genius

ROCK THE ROOM®

Communicate With impact – Anywhere, Anytime


As distractions and information overload increase to unprecedented levels, and as people’s attention span drops dramatically, how can you deliver your message in a way that truly lands?

Whether you’re communicating on stage, on video, or in meetings with your team, clients, customers or prospects…the stakes are high.

It’s hard to get people’s attention and when you do, you can’t afford to blow it.

In our fast moving, multi-channeled, entertainment-driven culture, you can’t just deliver information.

You must create an experience.

Using game-changing strategies developed through 25 years of professional stage and screen performances as well as decades working with the world’s top CEOs, teams, entrepreneurs, consultants, and speakers, Victoria provides you with the secrets you need to Rock The Room® and knock your presentations and communications out of the park.

In this humor-filled, entertaining and power-packed keynote, Victoria shares her 5-part Rock The Room Performance System which you can implement immediately to transform your communications into an unforgettable experience.

Interactive, fun, filled with “Ah-ha” slap-your-hand-on-your-head moments, Rock The Room® is guaranteed to crack open your creative spirit and set you and your business apart from the pack.

You’ll walk away with the tools you need to deliver your message with the unexpected twist that makes it your own and distinguishes your brand.

Rock The Room® has met with praise from people across multiple industries — and the most introverted to the most extroverted of individuals. Whether tech, health care, hospitality, insurance, academia, internet marketing, advertising, social media, financial services….you name it. We’re on it.

Testimonials

A huge hit with our sales and management team...well exceeded our expectations. We have seen an immediate impact on sales activity and new business.
– Tom Chelew, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Victoria delivered. Pure and simple. She is funny, poignant, dramatic, visual -in short, the total package. I highly recommend Victoria for a program of any size, for any industry, global or domestic.
– Peter Lazaroff, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, IBM
Unquestionably the most inspiring & moving speaker I’ve experienced in my 15 years as CEO. Every person she’s touched within our company has walked away in awe and is now able to realize more of their potential in life. Victoria has done 19 sessions, impacting our entire company throughout N. America.
– John Ohanesian, CEO, Bosley
Her insights provided a critical edge in winning large client contracts. She is a joy.
– Karen van Bergen, CEO, Omnicom
Dynamic! Impactful. Riveting.
– Pete Docter, Academy Award , Winning Director - PIXAR
Visceral fun!
– NY Daily News
Pure talent from head to foot!
– Jim Freydberg, Tony Award, Winning Broadway Producer

Booksby Victoria Labalme

Risk Forward

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Embrace Your Authenticity and Lead Better Teams with Mike Robbins

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