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Valerie Vigoda
Val Vigoda doesn’t just speak - she ignites. A world-class performer, award-winning musical theatre creator, and rockstar violinist/singer with Disney hits and Off-Broadway acclaim, Val fuses music and message into powerful keynote concerts that move audiences from passive listening to active transformation.
She’s a Performance Catalyst for teams navigating change, challenge, or burnout—showing them how to face uncertainty with resilience, creativity, and joy. With soaring vocals, spellbinding electric violin, cutting-edge looping tech, and raw vulnerability, Val doesn’t just talk about bravery—she embodies it, live, in real time.
Whether she’s headlining a corporate summit, playing an intimate VIP concert, or lifting a team out of overwhelm, Val turns every stage into a radical energy shift—where fear loosens its grip, connection ignites, and even the most skeptical audiences walk out recharged, inspired, and ready to rise.
She’s shared the spotlight with superstars like Cyndi Lauper, Michelle Obama, and Sting. But…
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The Human Edge in an AI World: How Presence, Creativity, and Soul Beat the Algorithm
AI can write for you, think for you, even learn from you—but it can’t be you. In a world racing toward automation, the leaders who will thrive aren’t the most efficient—they’re the most human. Val Vigoda makes the case that creativity, empathy, presence, and meaning-making aren’t soft skills anymore. They’re survival skills.
Through live music, powerful storytelling, and future-facing insight, Val shows how emotional intelligence and creative leadership are no longer “nice to have”—they’re your unignorable edge. It’s not just a keynote. It’s a reset for how we lead in the age of machines.
What They’ll Learn:
• Why human-centered leadership is your competitive advantage
• How to activate creativity, presence, and emotional intelligence under pressure
• Tools to lead with vision (not fear) in a tech-dominated era
• A new story about what it means to thrive through disruptionPerfect For: Leadership teams, innovation summits, and future-forward organizations navigating disruption who want to stay relevant—without losing their humanity.
Creative Resilience: Fueling Courage, Connection, and Innovation Through Uncertainty
Faced with chaos, most leaders either go rigid—or unravel. This keynote offers a third path: creative resilience.
Through powerful storytelling, unexpected humor, and riveting live music, Val Vigoda doesn’t just talk about bouncing back—she shows your audience how to rise forward. In real time. With courage, connection, and an electric violin. It’s part rock concert, part masterclass—and 100% a wake-up call to lead from presence, not panic.
What They’ll Learn:
• How to transform overwhelm into creative energy
• Why resilient leadership requires flexibility, not just strength
• Tactics for building connection and trust during high-stakes moments
• A new model for leading with presence, courage, and authentic expressionPerfect For: Leaders and teams navigating rapid change—especially those burned out, overwhelmed, or craving more creativity in how they lead. From CEOs to rising stars, this keynote speaks to anyone ready to lead boldly through uncertainty.
Lead with Confidence into the Unknown: Creativity as a Tool for Optimism
Confidence, leadership, playfulness, creativity—these are all skills that improve with practice (not simply traits that you either have or you don’t). Val takes audiences on a music-filled journey toward more creative leadership, illustrated by bold stories from her own life as well as astounding lessons from one of the greatest leaders in history, Ernest Shackleton. This empowering presentation, with its emphasis on mindset, story and expression to uplift and connect people, is perfect for organizations looking to ignite innovation and teamwork and cultivate truly creative, optimistic leaders.
Overcome Fear with Optimism, Resilience and Courage
It’s been said that the human brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones; and so our natural state is easily skewed toward pessimism, fearfulness and an abundance of caution. But great achievements are fueled by bravery, optimism and—sometimes counterintuitively—playfulness. Now more than ever we need to cultivate these qualities; and in this compelling presentation Val takes to the stage with her six-string electric violin and shows us how. An effervescent collection of adventures from her own life (as an awkward student, rebellious daughter, struggling Army cadet, nervous backup musician to rock stars, self-critical theater artist…), in which crisis forced her to face repeatedly into her greatest fears while also learning to let go of perfectionism and be more playful, inspires people to rise to their own challenges and do the same.




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