VIDEOS
Keynote Moments: Communication & Connection for Teams and Leaders
These keynote moments reflect Rachel DeAlto’s work on communication, connection, and relatable leadership across teams, leaders, sales, and customer experience. Each clip highlights practical, research-backed insights on trust, presence, adaptability, and intention, showing how human connection drives performance, engagement, and impact at work.
Why Teams and Leaders Miss What’s Right in Front of Them
In this keynote moment, Rachel DeAlto uses the Invisible Gorilla experiment to show why both leaders and teams consistently overestimate how well they listen. As a communication keynote speaker for teams and leaders, Rachel explains how lack of presence causes people to miss critical cues, weaken trust, and unintentionally make others feel unseen. The result isn’t just miscommunication, it’s missed opportunities for connection, collaboration, and engagement.
When Authority Replaces Connection
In this keynote story, Rachel DeAlto shares a personal leadership failure from her startup journey and the consequences of choosing authority and control over connection. Through lived experience and research, she explains how disconnection leads to disengagement, lower performance, and higher turnover. This moment illustrates why relatable leadership is not about being liked, but about building trust, collaboration, and long-term impact.
A Simple Framework for Clear Communication: Who, How, Why
In this keynote moment, Rachel DeAlto shares a practical communication framework she developed after studying what teams actually want from leaders. Using a real text exchange with her son during an incoming Category 5 hurricane in Tampa, she illustrates how effective communication depends on three elements: who you’re speaking to, how you’re delivering the message, and why it matters.
This clip highlights how leaders can adjust their message, channel, and intent to ensure their communication is not just sent, but received.
How Great Leaders Connect Work to Purpose
In this keynote moment, Rachel DeAlto challenges leaders to move beyond assigning tasks and instead connect work to purpose. Using the classic JFK and NASA story, she shows how inspired leaders help teams see the bigger mission behind what they do each day. When leaders clearly link individual contributions to organizational purpose, teams become more engaged, motivated, and confident in the value of their work.
How Trust Makes Connection Stick
In this keynote moment, Rachel DeAlto uses a relatable story to illustrate how trust is built through honesty and transparency. She introduces a practical trust framework grounded in competence, consistency, and transparency, and explains why trust is essential for creating lasting connection with teams and clients. This clip highlights how small, everyday moments shape relationships that go the distance.
Why Respect Is the Foundation of Relatable Leadership
In this keynote moment, Rachel DeAlto reframes respect as the belief that another person has value. She explains why respect is not a standalone concept, but the foundation that shapes communication, trust, connection, and belonging. When leaders lead with respect, teams feel seen, heard, and motivated to show up fully at work.
Why Relatable Leadership Drives Real ROI
In this keynote moment, Rachel DeAlto shares how Satya Nadella transformed Microsoft by shifting from competition and control to connection and growth. She explains why relatability in leadership is not a soft skill, but a measurable driver of engagement, innovation, and performance. This clip reframes leadership presence, communication, and connection as a true return on investment.
Why Great Leaders Choose Curiosity Over Assumptions
In this keynote story, Rachel DeAlto shares a defining moment from her early legal career that reshaped how she thinks about leadership, judgment, and connection. By choosing curiosity over assumptions, she explains how leaders build trust, dignity, and real human connection with the people they serve. This clip challenges leaders to reconsider how they show up when it matters most.