Rachel DeAlto: Communication Expert
Relationship and communication expert Rachel DeAlto helps leaders and teams strengthen relatability, build meaningful connections, and elevate interpersonal effectiveness through actionable strategies grounded in psychology and human behavior.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Author of Relatable (Simon & Schuster)
- Relationship and communication expert with a global client base
- Television personality featured on Lifetime, TLC, and major media outlets
- Three-time TEDx speaker, including a featured TED talk
- Formats: Keynote speaker, communications strategist, workshop facilitator
- Audiences: Corporate teams, leadership groups, HR and people development professionals, educators, event planners, and organizations seeking to improve communication, connection, and team dynamics.
- Outcomes:
- Practical strategies to build stronger, more relatable communication
- Tools for improving interpersonal skills, collaboration, and trust
- Frameworks that help individuals enhance authenticity, confidence, and meaningful connection
- Travels from: Spring Lake, NJ
- **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
How To Transform Fear into Success Through Connection, Communication, & Courage
What if what scares you could be what dares you—to connect with others, step into magnetic self-confidence, and take the risks necessary for growth, success, and happiness?
Spoiler alert: That’s actually not a question.
Fear is biology’s way of holding us in check. It’s our job to make sure it doesn’t also hold us back—or close us off from the connections and teamwork we need to succeed.
Book this keynote from Rachel DeAlto to put fear into gear!
Fearlessly Relatable:
How to Improve Relationships, Revenue, and Results with Confidence.
When it comes to leadership success, it’s not just about how well you know and relate to your business, it’s also how well you know and relate to people!
If you’ve ever worried about missing (or losing!) sales, growth, and team-building opportunities because you overthink or avoid them, this keynote can change your perspective— and how your teams perform.
Can You Relate?
Unlocking Emotional Intelligence for Strong Teams, Engaged Employees, and Better Everything.
Healthy connections at work aren’t only great for feedback, collaboration, and innovation. They are the key to success, productivity, and happiness in all aspects of work and life.
Discover the self-awareness and emotional acuity skills to ask the right questions, listen for the “real” answers, and build an unstoppable team from the inside out.
Book this keynote to learn to read—and lead—the room!
Talent Short Bio
Rachel DeAlto is a renowned relationship and communications expert, media personality, and keynote speaker celebrated for her ability to help individuals and organizations build stronger, more authentic connections. With a law degree, a master’s in psychology, and an undergraduate degree in communications, Rachel blends academic expertise with real-world experience to deliver transformative insights on relatability, communication, and human behavior.
She is the author of Relatable: How to Connect with Anyone Anywhere (Even if It Scares You), published by Simon & Schuster, which offers practical tools for overcoming communication barriers and cultivating genuine relationships. Often described as a “people whisperer,” Rachel has advised leaders, teams, and global organizations on how to elevate emotional intelligence, foster collaboration, and create cultures rooted in trust and connection.
Rachel is widely recognized for her television work, including appearances on Married at First Sight, Kate+Date, and numerous national media platforms such as The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, CNN/HLN, Access Hollywood Live, The Steve Harvey Show, and Fox News.
Read Full Bio
Rachel DeAlto is a Relationship and Communications Expert, Media personality, and Speaker. She is the Author of Relatable: How to Connect with Anyone Anywhere (Even if It Scares You) released on September 2021 via Simon & Schuster.
She maintains a law degree, master’s in psychology, as well as an undergraduate degree in communications.
Rachel DeAlto is known as a people whisperer and has worked with many organizations and individuals worldwide helping them to develop their leadership, improve teams, and create stronger interpersonal skills.
You may recognize Rachel from Lifetime’s Married at First Sight or TLC’s Kate+Date, but her relationship expertise spans far beyond the TV screen.
In addition to her regular appearances, Rachel DeAlto has also been featured on a multitude of media outlets including The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, CNN/HLN, Access Hollywood Live, The Steve Harvey Show, and Fox News. She has also given three TEDx talks including Being Authentic in a Filtered World which is presently featured on TED.
Her mission: To inspire 1,000,000 people to become more relatable—and create the connections and lives they’ve always wanted.
Vibrant, down-to-earth, and wicked smart when it comes to communication and relationships, Rachel isn’t afraid to put it all out there—and connect to the best of it.
Strong connections and relationships are the key to phenomenal success, productivity, happiness, & health.
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