Speaker · Facilitator · Leadership Strategist

Your audience doesn't need another keynote they'll forget by Monday.

Miryam Valdrom brings lived experience, behavioral insight and practical tools into conversations about leadership, resilience, culture and what it takes to expand beyond the ways we've learned to survive and succeed.

Born and raised in Peru, an immigrant to the U.S. at 15 and an eight-year U.S. Navy veteran, Miryam has spent her life navigating cultures, institutions and definitions of strength.

Her talks are candid, participatory and built to leave people thinking differently about how they lead, work and live.

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8-Year U.S. Navy Veteran · 500+ People Facilitated · Keynotes + Interactive Workshops

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More than motivation

A room should leave different than it came in.

Miryam doesn't speak at an audience. She brings them into the conversation.

Through storytelling, humor, cultural context, behavioral insight and audience participation, she creates the kind of room where people recognize themselves in what's being said and leave with language for something they may have felt for years but couldn't name.

The goal isn't inspiration for an hour. It's a conversation people are still having after the room clears.

Flagship keynote

From Resilience
to Capacity

What if strength was never supposed to mean doing it alone?

Miryam knows resilience beyond the keynote stage. She immigrated from Peru at 15 and spent eight years in the U.S. Navy, where adapting, pushing through and getting the mission done were part of the job.

Those experiences taught her the power of resilience. They also showed her its limits.

In From Resilience to Capacity, Miryam challenges the idea that strength is measured by how much we can endure alone and explores what becomes possible when support, connection and community become part of how we define it.

Because while resilience helps us endure, capacity allows us to expand.

Nobody carries everything.
Everybody carries something.

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The flagship conversation

One keynote. Different rooms.

The thesis stays.
The doorway changes.

From women's leadership and multicultural communities to veterans, men's groups and workplace teams, Miryam adapts the stories, questions and applications of From Resilience to Capacity to the people in the room.

Her lived experience across cultures, military service, community leadership and organizational spaces allows her to do that without changing the heart of the keynote.

Women's leadership

Responsibility · ambition · support · carrying

Veterans + military

Strength · identity · transition · connection

Men's groups

Self-reliance · strength · connection · community

Workplace + leadership

Collaboration · delegation · contribution · support

Latina + multicultural communities

Culture · family · responsibility · community

Community doesn't have to look the same for everyone. But none of us were meant to build a life entirely alone.

Signature keynote

The Joy Dividend

What if joy is a KPI?

Organizations measure productivity, retention, engagement and performance. Joy is usually relegated to celebrations, perks and “fun.”

The Joy Dividend makes the case that we've underestimated it.

Drawing from research on positive emotion and human behavior alongside Miryam's experience across military, nonprofit, community and other mission-driven environments, this keynote explores how the conditions that create genuine joy can influence connection, collaboration, contribution and people's willingness to lead.

This isn't about making work more fun.

It's about understanding what becomes possible when people feel connected to each other, their contribution and the mission they're part of.

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Signature keynote + interactive workshop

Before We Called It Leadership

Some of our greatest leadership skills were developed before we ever had the power to choose how we wanted to lead.

Long before many Latina women receive their first title, they've already learned to read rooms, adapt, translate, advocate, stretch resources, take responsibility and navigate different worlds.

Born and raised in Peru and immigrating to the U.S. at 15, Miryam knows that experience personally. As an eldest daughter, she developed many of those skills before anyone called them leadership, then carried them into eight years of military service and leadership across multiple sectors.

Before We Called It Leadership invites Latina women to recognize the strengths they've carried since girlhood while examining which ones they want to consciously bring into the leaders they're becoming.

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Interactive workshop

From Pleasing to Powerful

Boundaries for people who are used to being the one everyone can count on.

Some of the people who struggle most with boundaries are exceptionally good at advocating for everyone else.

Miryam knows that contradiction personally. As an eldest daughter, immigrant and leader in service-oriented environments, being responsible, useful and dependable opened doors. It also taught her how complicated a boundary becomes when someone else's disappointment is on the other side of it.

From Pleasing to Powerful goes beyond “just say no” advice to explore what happens when responsibility, belonging and other people's comfort collide with the boundaries we know we need.

Because knowing the boundary and holding it are two different skills.

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Interactive workshop

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The Revolution Will Be Rested

A From Resilience to Capacity experience

The keynote opens the conversation. This workshop brings it into people's lives.

Through guided reflection, conversation and practical application, participants examine what they're carrying, where capability has quietly become responsibility, what support actually looks like for them, and what could become possible if their next chapter didn't require them to carry everything alone.

Miryam brings more than stage experience to this work. Her background includes facilitating 500+ people across leadership, professional development and community spaces, alongside advanced training in behavior change, emotional processing, communication, hypnosis, NLP and trauma-informed practice.

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The experience

People don't just listen. They participate.

Storytelling

Personal experiences that make complex ideas human without making the room about the speaker.

Behavioral insight

Ideas about leadership and human behavior translated into language audiences can actually use.

Cultural context

Leadership isn't culturally neutral. Miryam makes room for the different experiences people bring with them.

Audience participation

Reflection, conversation and experiences that turn an audience from spectators into participants.

Practical application

People leave with something they can examine, discuss or do differently after the event.

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From the room

What people say after Miryam speaks.

“Miryam delivered a powerful message with such confidence and clarity, making complex ideas feel relatable and actionable. The energy in the room was incredible and left me with a renewed drive to take action. I would absolutely recommend this to anyone looking for practical insights and a meaningful shift in mindset.”

Program ManagerFourth Plain Forward

“Miryam gave an excellent presentation on burnout with specific, actionable tools you can use immediately.”

Branch ManagerFort Vancouver Regional Libraries

“Miryam explains the why behind human behavior and how to disrupt the patterns holding you back. Incredibly insightful and actionable.”

Sr Account ExecutiveRivermark

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Meet your speaker

Miryam Valdrom

Miryam Valdrom is a Peruvian immigrant, eight-year U.S. Navy veteran, leadership strategist, speaker and facilitator whose career has crossed military, higher education, nonprofit, economic development, entrepreneurship and community spaces.

Her work explores the relationship between how people learned to survive and succeed and how they want to lead, work and live now.

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Built for rooms where leadership gets personal.

Keynotes and interactive workshops can be adapted to the audience, event theme and desired outcomes.

01Corporate teams + ERGs

02Professional associations

03Conferences + summits

04Women's leadership events

05Veteran + military communities

06Universities + community organizations

07Latina + multicultural organizations

08Leadership retreats + programs

Need something different?

Some rooms need something built specifically for them.

In addition to her signature keynotes and workshops, Miryam partners with organizations to create interactive experiences around leadership, communication, change, team dynamics and the needs of a specific audience.

Custom sessions begin with the organization and the outcome, not a recycled presentation with a new title.

Let's create a conversation your audience takes with them.

Tell me about your audience, your event and what you want people walking away with.

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