Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive

Speaker | C-Suite Executive | Transformational Leader | Author | Passionate Diversity & Inclusion Leader | Multipotentialite | | *opinions my own

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Happy to share my TEDx Miami talk about Healthy Resilience. The talk was in May but just went live online:

https://t.co/nRP8lvhonx

#publicspeaker #keynote #resilience #leader #unstoppable

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Pride month is over. The flags are coming down off the corporate logos. Right on schedule.

Here's my quiet worry every July. That for a lot of organizations, belonging was a 30-day campaign, and August is when everyone quietly goes back to normal.

The people you celebrated in June don't get to switch it off. Your queer employees, your trans colleagues, your team members who spent the month feeling briefly, genuinely seen — they're still here. Still watching whether the support was real or seasonal.

Belonging isn't a month. It's a Tuesday in October when nobody's watching and you do the right thing anyway.

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: inclusion that only shows up when it's celebrated was never inclusion. It was just marketing with convenient timing.

So to the leaders reading this — the work continues. The banner was the easy part. What you fund, who you promote, and how you show up the other eleven months is the actual statement.

What's one thing your organization is doing for belonging in August that has nothing to do with a hashtag?

#Pride #LGBTQ #TurnaroundQueen #CEOWhisperer #WholeHumanLeadership #Belonging #Inclusion #Leadership #NoExcuses #Unstoppable

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Turns out the Turnaround Queen has an off-switch after all — first stop - Napa. My summer of fun officially kicks off in wine country this week, and I will bring the camera along.

Come see what "logging off" looks like! 🍷

#SummerOfFun #WholeHumanLeadership #Unstoppable #NoExcuses

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Tomorrow is the 4th of July. I'll be celebrating it as a proud Canadian who's called the US home, on and off, for 20 years — and yes, I'm aware of the irony.

But here's what makes this particular 4th of July nearly perfect: Canada plays in the World Cup that very day. 🇨🇦⚽

So let me be clear about my allegiances. I'll be raising a glass to my American friends and neighbours in the afternoon, and losing my voice cheering for Canada whenever we take the pitch. No conflict. No contradiction. Just a woman who has never believed belonging is a zero-sum game.

That's not a personal quirk. It's the whole thesis I've spent 25+ years arguing in boardrooms. You don't have less room for one team, one country, one group of people because you've made room for another. Inclusion was never a fixed pie. The leaders who understand that build something stronger. The ones who don't spend their careers making people choose sides that never needed choosing.

And this summer, that argument is playing out on a global stage in front of billions. The World Cup has the entire planet showing up on North American soil — every flag, every language, every background — celebrating together over a ball. Canada co-hosting. The US co-hosting. Mexico co-hosting. The world arriving as our guest.

For a few weeks, the point lands better than any keynote I could give: bring people together, and remarkable things happen.

So tomorrow I'll wave two flags without a shred of guilt. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Happy 4th to my American friends. And let's go Canada!!

What's something you hold that people wrongly assume you have to choose between?

#TurnaroundQueen #CEOWhisperer #WholeHumanLeadership #WorldCup #Belonging #Leadership #NoExcuses #Unstoppable

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Crisis doesn't build character. It reveals it.

#TurnaroundQueen #Unstoppable #NoExcuses

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Took me 20 years to figure out that "serious" never had to mean head-to-toe black. Nobody doubted my competence over a colour — only when I played small. Wear the pink. Take up the room. 💗

#PrettyinPink #BeBold #WholeHumanLeadership #Unstoppable #NoExcuses

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Happy Canada Day. 🇨🇦

And I'll be honest about how much that still means to me, watching from Miami this morning.

I've moved back and forth across that border for 20 years, chasing bigger business opportunities, with my last move in 2019. I don't regret a single one. But two decades of leaving and returning is what finally taught me how much of Canada I carry with me no matter where I land.

I am who I am as a human, and as a leader, in large part because of where I come from.

Canada gave me a few things I didn't fully appreciate until I lived without them as the default. A genuine social safety net. Healthcare treated as a right, not a perk. And underneath all of it, a quiet, stubborn belief that we take care of each other — that belonging isn't earned by the strongest, it's extended to everyone.

That's not just national pride. That's the foundation of how I lead.

Everything I believe about whole human leadership traces back to it. The conviction that you build the strongest organizations by including people, not sorting them. That diversity isn't a program you launch, it's a truth you organize around. That looking after your people isn't soft — it's the entire point.

I've spent my career arguing for that in boardrooms. I didn't invent it. I inherited it.

So today I'll be a proud Canadian in Miami, grateful for the country that shaped the leader and the human I became.

To my fellow Canadians — happy Canada Day.

And to everyone else: what's one value from where you come from that you carry into how you lead?

#TurnaroundQueen #CEOWhisperer #WholeHumanLeadership #CanadaDay #Leadership #Belonging #Inclusion #NoExcuses #Unstoppable

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

More video, more often — on leadership, AI, and the turnaround playbook. Sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s my digital twin. The opinions are always mine. #Unstoppable #NoExcuses

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Freedom on the Other Side of Disappointment https://t.co/fh8eiLVknT via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Call Me Boring. I'll Take It as a Compliment. https://t.co/KPrA1HZa30 via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

The strange thing about AI and work is that the technology isn’t actually the messy part. The mess shows up when organizations try to bolt AI onto job structures that were never designed for it in the first place. That’s how we end up with what I called Franken-jobs, in my recent article.

After that piece, and in the many boardrooms I consult in, the most common response is: “Okay, we see the problem. Now what do we actually do about it?”

This article attempts to answer that question. A practical playbook for redesigning work in the AI era—four steps, real examples, and a few uncomfortable truths about who actually needs to be in the room when job architecture gets rebuilt.

https://t.co/dGLI8XRMKk

#AI #workforcetransformation #organizationaldesign #transformation #Leadership #NoExcuses #Unstoppable

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Your Values Are a Lie. And Your Employees Know It. https://t.co/632GB0F64A via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Happy Women’s History Month - my latest article: The Seat at the Table I Had to Build Myself https://t.co/pTq3kXkBk0 via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: AI Isn’t Creating Franken-Jobs: Chaos Is a Choice — Human Skill Design Isn’t. https://t.co/K9vColqLlS via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Grit Isn’t About Hanging On. It’s About Knowing What NOT to Quit. https://t.co/tDLcOjsbum via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Stop Shuffling the Deck Chairs — Transformation Demands Belief, Not Boxes https://t.co/ly3qT2q6gC via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: What MLK Day Asks of Leaders — Not Employees https://t.co/uW2TSzi8Ho via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Declaring Culture Change Is Easy. Enforcing Behaviour Is Not. https://t.co/INZmuIXHu0 via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article (Part 1 of 2): I Don’t Do Resolutions. I Do Outcomes. https://t.co/xeSxX2daLq via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

They cut through my abdomen to reach my spine. And the next day, I was leading meetings. But here’s the twist: resilience isn’t the hustle. It’s the healing. I share some thoughts in my latest article.https://t.co/Sibg9uGQZ5 via @LinkedIn

[Victoria Pelletier | Keynote Speaker | Executive @PelletierV29]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: AI Isn’t Taking Your Job - Poor Leadership Is https://t.co/MZnm2SMTTH via @LinkedIn