Precision. Presence. The particular gift of making someone feel seen at a depth they didn't know was possible in a room full of people.
Delphine has been paid to speak since she was fourteen. As the television Wendy for a national hamburger chain, and as a professional voiceover and on-camera spokesperson, she spent decades being seen by thousands while keeping the real person behind the performance carefully out of reach. She went on to build and sell a multi-million dollar company - and then spent a decade finding out that no amount of external success can substitute for the courage to be truly known.
That journey is the work. And the work is what she brings to a stage.
Through FierceGRAVITAS - her podcast, her practice, and her private 1:1 work - Delphine guides women back to the truth of their essence. Not by telling them. By asking the one question that makes everything else irrelevant. She brings that same precision and presence to every room she stands in.
An officer and member of Toastmasters in Dayton Ohio, Santa Monica and Petaluma California. Host of five podcast series. Facilitator in mastermind and group settings across a multi-decade career in transformational work.
Topics include
The Mask Beneath the Mask
For every woman who has been visible her entire life and has never once felt truly known. This talk traces the through line of a life spent hiding in plain sight - from four years as the television Wendy for a national hamburger chain, to building and losing a multi-million dollar company, to the moment she finally understood that the performance she had mastered was the very thing keeping her from being known. The audience leaves not with a framework but with a recognition they will carry out of the room.
Making Room
For every woman who has buried the truth of who she is beneath what the world needed her to be. This talk names what it actually costs to perform a life rather than live one - personally, professionally, and in the body itself - and what becomes possible when she finally makes room for the truth of her own essence to exist. A talk about survival, dissociation, and the political act of reclaiming your voice.
The Question That Makes Everything Else Irrelevant
For organizations, leadership teams, and communities ready to shift from answers to questions. This talk makes the case that the most transformative thing one human being can offer another is not advice, not strategy, and not a framework. It is the one question that unlocks what the other person has been carrying all along.
Available for keynotes, panels, retreat facilitation, podcast appearances, and intimate gatherings. All formats welcome.
They say…
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I love your enthusiasm and energy. Good humor. The audience was completely drawn in.
L. Abu-Niaaj
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Very meaningful presentation. Full of heart and emotion. Thank you for inviting us to feel empathy for differing viewpoints.
T. Baker
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Fantastic passion and super engaging.
E. Bracken
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So damn powerful. Your truth, your authenticity, your leadership, your frequency is palpable.
Shelley A.