Speaking & Keynotes
Book Adilen Valentina for speaking engagements that inspire, challenge, and drive real leadership growth.
Adilen Valentina, SHRM-CP, is a leadership strategist, HR practitioner, and Founder of Valentina Rising Institute. She speaks on leadership, workplace culture, reinvention, HR strategy, and human-centered performance with a style that blends compelling storytelling, practical insight, and real-world credibility.
Selected speaking and leadership engagements:
Tri-State SHRM 2026 | CT State Community College-NVCC | Town of Bloomfield
More than inspiration. Real insight your audience can use.
The strongest speaking experiences do more than motivate people for an hour. They give audiences language, perspective, and tools they can carry back into their work immediately.
Adilen’s sessions are designed to do exactly that.
Drawing from experience in municipal HR, leadership development, workforce training, and culture-building, she delivers talks that help leaders and organizations think more strategically, lead more intentionally, and respond to change with greater clarity and confidence.
Her speaking style is thoughtful, energizing, and grounded in lived practice, not empty theory.
Featured Speaking Engagements
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SHRM - Tristate SHRM Conference
As a speaker at Tri-State SHRM 2026, Adilen delivers "Reimagining the Circus: Lessons for HR in the Age of Disruption", a compelling keynote-style session that used powerful storytelling to challenge HR leaders to redefine value in a changing world. Centered on reinvention, strategic relevance, and human-centered leadership, the session invited audiences to rethink what kind of future their organizations are creating.
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CT State Community College - NVCC
In partnership with CT State Community College and the Alpha Beta Gamma Society, Adilen recently contributed to the "HR Is for Everyone" panel, a meaningful conversation designed to expand awareness of human resources as a dynamic, people-centered career path. Through insight, encouragement, and real-world perspective, she helped students and emerging professionals see HR not simply as a function, but as a powerful space to influence culture, leadership, and the employee experience.
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Town of Bloomfield
Through the Town of Bloomfield’s Emerging Leadership Program, Adilen has served as a featured speaker and facilitator across key moments of the leadership journey, from opening the experience with a compelling call to growth, to guiding workshops that challenged participants to think more strategically, communicate more effectively, and lead with greater intention. She also brought energy and meaning to the program’s graduation celebration, where her voice helped honor the transformation of a new cohort of emerging leaders and the leadership capacity being built within the organization.
Book Adilen for your next event
If you are looking for a speaker who can bring both inspiration and substance to your audience, Adilen would be honored to support your event.
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Conferences
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Association events
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Leadership programs
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Team development events
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Organizational keynotes
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Panel conversations