Virginie Delalande - Speaker on motivation
Speaker, author, TV host, founder of Kiffe ton handicap and World with Women
Top Speaker • Top Voice LinkedIn • Knight of the National Order of Merit • Medal of the National Assembly • Cover of Forbes 2022
Virginie Delalande is an international speaker, author, and TV host.
The first profoundly deaf lawyer born in France, she now supports companies on three decisive issues: re-energizing teams, evolving leadership practices, and transforming diversity into a true lever of performance.
Her extraordinary journey gives her a unique legitimacy to speak about what happens when certainties waver, obstacles accumulate, or differences challenge our ways of working.
But Virginie does not come to tell a beautiful story of resilience. She comes to provoke a shift.
With humor, energy, and a straightforward approach, she confronts participants with their automatism, beliefs, and sometimes their contradictions — then gives them concrete keys to act differently.
Her conferences address three major issues for organizations:
How to regain energy and desire when teams are exhausted? How to become a leader who is followed without having to control everything or hide everything? How to make diversity something other than an obligation or an HR topic?
On stage, Virginie creates moments of high emotional intensity, but always connected to work issues: engagement, trust, managerial courage, collective intelligence, and performance.
Her goal is not for participants to leave simply inspired. It is for them to leave looking at what they thought was impossible, fragile, or constraining — and with a greater desire to act.
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Frequently asked questions
Sur quelles thématiques Virginie Delalande intervient en tant que conférencière ?
Virginie Delalande intervient en tant que conférencière sur les thématiques : motivation, leadership, diversite, inclusion, handicap, resilience, difference and femmes.
How do I book Virginie Delalande for a conference?
To book Virginie Delalande, contact the Lespeakers agency. An advisor will call you back to scope the event, dates and format.
How much does a conference with Virginie Delalande cost?
Virginie Delalande's fees:
- Conference : 6500 €
Booking is handled through Lespeakers.
Which languages does Virginie Delalande speak on stage?
Virginie Delalande speaks as speaker in french and english.
Where is Virginie Delalande based?
Here is where Virginie Delalande is based: France.
Where does Virginie Delalande speak?
Virginie Delalande's speaking locations: Dans le monde entier.
Which speaking formats does Virginie Delalande offer?
Virginie Delalande offers the following formats: Conférence, Convention, Séminaire, CODIR.
Which audience should book Virginie Delalande?
Entrepreneurs, CODIR, Managers, Grand public, Salle de plus de 1000 personnes.
Que faisait Virginie Delalande avant d'être conférencière ?
I did not become a speaker after studying leadership, resilience, or transformation.
I became a speaker after living them.
Born profoundly deaf, doctors told my parents that I would probably never speak and that I would not learn to read or write. Even before I could dream of my future, others had already begun to draw its limits.
Yet I chose a different story.
I became the first profoundly deaf woman to obtain a law degree in France. I then built a career in the demanding world of law and business, eventually evolving within a legal team recognized as one of the best in Europe and joining an executive committee in Switzerland.
But what transformed my life the most is not what I accomplished.
It is what I understood.
I understood that we all spend part of our existence trying to mask what makes us different. Seeking our value in performance. Believing that our fragilities diminish us when they can become our greatest source of strength.
For a long time, I did too.
Then I discovered a truth that changed my trajectory: what we most seek to hide is often what makes us the most powerful, the most human, and the most inspiring.
It is this conviction that led me to the stage.
Today, I am an international speaker, author, columnist, and TV host. I have spoken in more than 500 organizations in France and internationally. My journey has been recognized by Forbes, the Medal of the National Assembly, and the National Order of Merit.
But accolades are not what matters most.
What excites me is provoking insights.
Helping everyone push back the boundaries they believed were insurmountable. Transforming the perspective on difference, failure, or vulnerability. Revealing the potential that lies behind fears, doubts, and obstacles.
My talks address leadership, courage, resilience, transformation, authenticity, and human performance.
Because deep down, my story is not that of a deaf woman who succeeded.
It is the story of what becomes possible when one stops letting fears, the gaze of others, or fragilities decide their place.
Qu'est-ce qui a fait de Virginie Delalande une conférencière ?
I did not become a speaker because I loved speaking on stage.
I became a speaker because my whole life, I was told what I would probably never be able to do.
Because of my deafness.
I was told about limits. I chose possibilities.
I was told about giving up. I chose ambition.
I was told about obstacles. I chose movement.
As the first profoundly deaf woman to obtain a law degree in France, I then joined the best legal service in Europe and joined an executive committee in Switzerland. Not because the path was easy, but because I refused to let circumstances decide for me.
Over the years, I understood that my story was not only interesting because it was unique. It touched on something universal: the fear of not measuring up, the weight of others' gaze, doubt, resilience, the courage to dare despite everything.
That is how I took the stage.
To show that our greatest fragilities can become our greatest strengths.
To help everyone expand the realm of possibilities.
To remind that the true obstacle is not always the one we believe.
Today, my talks address leadership, courage, transformation, resilience, and human power.
Because behind every successful person often lies someone who, one day, had every reason to give up... and who chose to move forward anyway.
What is Virginie Delalande's speaking angle?
I explore everything that individuals and organizations lose when energy is used to compensate, conform, or hide — instead of contributing, creating, and performing.
How does the audience experience a talk by Virginie Delalande?
A lot of emotions, we talk about emotional rollercoasters
But also a lot of humor that makes people ask me if I don't think about doing a one-woman show
Why do organizers like working with Virginie Delalande?
Organizers appreciate working with me because beyond the conference, they know they can count on me.
I am responsive, flexible, attentive to the brief and the constraints of the event. I adapt to the audience, the context, the timing, without ever losing that demand for quality.
And above all: reliability is non-negotiable. In over six years, there has been no slip-up, no disappointment. When I commit, I am there — prepared, available, and fully invested.
My agent also plays an essential role: he anticipates, secures logistical aspects, and ensures that the entire organization runs smoothly, to provide the client and their guests with the best possible comfort.
The goal is simple: for the organizer to focus on their event, without having to wonder if everything will be ready on my side. It will be.
Her conferences
Give Up? Never!
Your teams are tired, fragmented, and losing their sense of purpose. They are still holding on… but no longer together.
Based on her own journey and 3 very concrete keys, Virginie provokes an emotional jolt: humor, lucidity, unfiltered truth. A voice that shakes without crushing, that straightens without moralizing, that reconnects without illusion.
This is not a “feel good” interlude. It’s a moment that brings back breath, meaning, and the desire to play the game again.
Because doing nothing, here, has a very clear price: disengagement that settles in, talents that drop out, and performance that erodes in silence.
Business impact Energy levels that rise A mindset that shifts from “we endure” to “we can still play” Perseverance that holds, even when uncertainty becomes the norm
Ideal for team seminars, periods of transformation or reorganization, contexts of widespread fatigue.
I offer you this talk in the motivational conference category.
I am at your disposal to discuss this topic with you! My website: www.handicapower.com My agent's number: 06 07 02 82 63
Assumed Vulnerability? The Mark of Powerful Leaders
Your managers are competent… but locked. They perform, but do not unite. They master, but no longer inspire.
This conference breaks the codes of “traditional” leadership and introduces a new grammar: daring to say “I don’t know,” “I need help,” “here’s where I am” not to lose credibility, but to gain authority, impact, and real follow-up.
Drawing on her own journey (masks, collapse, reconstruction), Virginie shows how vulnerability, when mastered, becomes: a relational strength, a natural authority, and a powerful engine of cohesion and psychological safety.
And implicitly, a reality: allowing managers to remain in “permanent shielding” mode means accepting more unspoken issues, more tensions… and fewer people truly ready to follow them.
Business impact More frank, faster, less political feedback A rising trust, unspoken issues falling away More embodied managers who are spontaneously followed
Ideal for leadership programs, CODIR/COMEX, managers taking up positions or under tension.
Betting Everything on Diversity
Your teams are rich in their differences. But as long as this potential remains underutilized, it turns into tensions, misunderstandings… and loss of value.
While we tick the boxes for “CSR” and “SEEPH”, one question remains: do we really know if this diversity improves performance — or does it complicate it?
I propose to stop the gloss and look the subject in the face.
Through concrete examples, I show how to: move from a display of diversity to a real competitive advantage, transform each uniqueness into a lever of collective intelligence, stop treating it as a sub-file of HR and make it a strategic management issue.
A straightforward, funny, and no-nonsense conference, aimed at organizations tired of hollow speeches on diversity and wanting to understand, very concretely, how disability and difference can make their teams work better.
Business impact A diversity that moves from “compliance” to real performance More comfortable, more open, more empathetic employees More agile, more creative, more engaged teams
Ideal for diversity days, SEEPH, revival of inclusion policy, committed employer brand
The Power of Difference
Are you tired of feeling bad because you are different? This conference is for you!
Life has sometimes knocked me down but has also allowed me to experience extraordinary adventures! I must say that with my atypical profile, I had no choice but to confront everything that is an obstacle/barrier (whether real or in the mind)!
For twenty years, I wondered how to turn my differences into allies? And even more than that, how to make them strengths to stand out and leave a mark? With me, you will dive into a universe full of possibilities, a rich and surprising vision of life, a strong and lasting reconnection to oneself.
I will share with you the keys to access this fine understanding of your 'true self'! Once your handicap is tamed, your human body will become an inexhaustible source of experimentation and fascination, and you will finally find the true meaning of your life… Making your difference a strength will then become obvious to you.
A motivational conference on self-confidence, resilience, perseverance, and the gaze of others. I also share my coaching keys.