Virginie Delalande - Speaker on handicap
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 : handicap, diversite, inclusion, motivation, perseverance, resilience, confiance en soi and depassement de soi.
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.
Qu'est-ce qui a fait de Virginie Delalande une conférencière ?
I did not become a speaker because I loved speaking on stage.
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.
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.