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Rachel DeAlto
Communication and Relatability Expert
On a mission to connect people to their most powerful resource—each other—Rachel DeAlto is a communication and relatability expert, media personality, and the author of “relatable: How to Connect with Anyone Anywhere (Even if It Scares You)”.
Bio
Rachel DeAlto is on a mission to connect people to their most powerful resource – each other.
A former attorney with a master’s degree in psychology, Rachel is a communication and relatability expert, author, media personality, and researcher who combines her education, expertise, and experience to create a blueprint for leaders and teams to build better connections – and thereafter, better everything.
Rachel’s programs are highly interactive, customized, and create the potential for a ripple effect in every area of the audience’s lives. Her signature programs involve a framework that helps people understand themselves, their relationships, and their impact on others. She has trained executives, employees, and teams in a variety of industries around the world: from global Fortune 500 companies to startups, governments to nonprofits. And she does it all with her trademark humor and energy.
She is the author of relatable: How to Connect with Anyone Anywhere (Even if It Scares You) and has appeared as an expert on Lifetime’s Married at First Sight and over 200+ national media outlets such as Good Morning America, CNN, Fox New, and The Today Show. She also maintains an influential social media presence where she shares psychological research updates and practical takeaways to connect and communicate more efficiently.
As a popular keynote speaker, Rachel delivers programs on leadership, the power of connection, customer experience, sales, and communication. Her most recent TEDx Talk, Being Authentic in a Filtered World, was featured on TED.com.
A celebrated authority on the topics of connection and relationships, Rachel is also the Chief Connection Officer at Match Group, the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services.
Keynotes
Featured Keynote
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SEEN: A Keynote on the Power of Human Connection
FOR TEAMS – From Invisible to Invincible
You’ve invested in team-building exercises, collaboration tools, and new processes. They work…for a while. Then the same problems return.
Communication breakdowns. Innovation that feels forced. That subtle tension no one talks about. People who used to speak up but don’t anymore.
Here’s the hidden truth: these aren’t separate problems. They’re all symptoms of the same root cause. Not being ignored, being invisible. It’s different.
You can show up to every meeting and still feel unseen for what you contribute and who you truly are. And when people feel invisible, they don’t just disengage. They protect instead of create. They compete instead of collaborate. They leave instead of invest.
So what if the real driver of performance isn’t engagement, but being SEEN?
The SEEN framework flips the script. Instead of managing symptoms, it addresses the source. Because when being seen becomes the standard, the problems don’t just improve, they dissolve. Teams don’t just function, they flourish.
In this keynote, Rachel explores:- The real cost of invisibility on performance, trust, and retention
- The power behind the four practices of being SEEN (acknowledging each person’s presence, validating their contributions, including them in the fabric of the team, and knowing them beyond their role).
- How to make “being seen” the foundation of collaboration and trust
FOR LEADERS – The Hidden Root of Dysfunction
You're fighting the same fires over and over. Disengagement returns after engagement initiatives. Innovation stalls despite creative workshops. Trust erodes despite team-building investments.
Here's why nothing sticks: you're solving the wrong problem.
Here’s why: those aren’t separate issues. They’re all symptoms of the same hidden system failure: people feeling unseen.
Employees may be acknowledged, but not truly known. They may be recognized, but not understood. Managed, but never seen. And invisibility corrodes everything it touches. When people don’t feel seen, they stop daring, stop giving, stop staying.
So here’s the question: what if the difference between good leaders and great ones isn’t strategy or skill, but the ability to see?
Leaders who solve invisibility unlock capacity most organizations never access. They prevent dysfunction instead of managing it. They transform trust, belonging, and performance at the source.
The SEEN framework gives leaders a new lens, one that turns invisibility into connection and managers into leaders people want to follow.
In this keynote, Rachel teaches:
- Why most engagement strategies fail (they miss the real root cause)
- How invisibility silently fuels dysfunction across organizations
- The power behind the four practices of being SEEN (acknowledging people in meaningful ways, validating their perspectives, including them in decisions that matter, and knowing them well enough to lead them effectively).
Because the question isn’t whether you have time to see others — it’s whether you can afford not to.
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