Valerie Addona

What makes Valerie distinct is the rare convergence of worlds she brings into one room. Few speakers can move fluently between the boardroom and the body — between a decade of strategy consulting at firms like BCG and Accenture across five countries, and deep trauma-informed somatic practice rooted in lived experience. Her work is not theoretical. It emerges from her own healing journey, her training in somatic experiencing, nervous system regulation, and authentic relating, and over a decade of working across impact-driven organizations, humanitarian spaces, and wellness environments globally. She speaks from the inside out — not as an observer of trauma and healing, but as someone who has navigated both the high-performance world and the slow, necessary work of returning to the body. That combination creates something rare on stage: intellectual rigor and genuine embodied presence. Audiences don't just hear her — they feel the permission to be more honest about their own experience. She brings that same quality whether speaking to a corporate leadership team, a community of trauma survivors, an NGO, or a wellness gathering. And she does it in four languages.