Rooted, Relatable, and Unapologetically Real.

 
 

Nadia De Ala is not your average speaker—she’s the kind of presence that makes people exhale, lean in, and say “finally.”

As a Filipina American leadership coach, speaker, and founder of Real You Leadership, Nadia creates spaces where BIPOC women, femmes, and allies can be fully seen and heard. Her talks cut through corporate fluff with deep resonance, radical honesty, and tools people actually remember and use.

Whether she’s guiding people through courageous conversations, naming power dynamics, or modeling what real self-advocacy looks like, Nadia leaves audiences more confident, more aligned, and more alive in their leadership.

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Signature Workshops & Keynotes


Closing the Intersectional Pay Gap

This workshop is designed to prepare women of color professionals, their allies, and advocates with actionable strategies to end the intersectional pay gap.

Key takeaways:

  • What Equal Pay Day is and why it’s important.

  • How racial and gender inequities for women of color show up systemically within organizations.

  • How various intersectional identities impact pay gaps.

  • How allies can advocate for women of color individually to create organizational change that closes the leadership and pay gap.

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Navigating the Feedback Loop for Performance Reviews

Research shows that women and marginalized people are less likely to receive critical feedback tied to business outcomes and their career advancement. So, what does reaching your full potential even look like?

Key takeaways:

  • The important role of actionable advice within BIPOC and women professionals’ careers.

  • The mindsets that hinder BIPOC and women professionals from self-advocating.

  • Strategic mindsets to adopt when giving and receiving critical feedback/advice to advance your career.

  • How to prepare for review cycles.

  • Effective approaches toward creating feedback loops that prepare them for performance review cycles.

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How to Give & Receive Empowering Feedback for People Managers

This workshop is for people managers who want to grow their leadership skills and provide equitable and inclusive feedback for all team members to succeed.

Key takeaways:

  • The important leadership skill of designing feedback loops is integral to developing your team and setting them up for success

  • Ways managers can integrate feedback as an instrumental tool to help team members progress in their careers 

  • How to empower yourself to “manage up” for career advancement

  • Receive feedback with grace, an open mind and growth mindset

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Designing Psychological Safety in Teams

Hiring more diverse candidates isn’t enough. What’s also imperative is that leadership in your organization create a safe space for all employees to bring their full, authentic selves to work. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to understand your impact and create a truly inclusive environment where your team members can take risks, make mistakes, and be empowered to contribute - without the fear of embarrassment or being harmed.

Key takeaways:

  • What psychological safety for BIPOC and marginalized employees means

  • How to create the space for compassion, grace, and nuance

  • How to recognize the difference between impact vs. intention

  • How to let go of perfection, embrace progress instead, and what to do on those inevitable days when you get it “wrong.”

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Owning Your Impact as an Active Ally

BIPOC employees need active support from allies to help them elevate their careers. This workshop is for those who want to help people from marginalized communities and want to know where to start.

Key takeaways:

  • Being an ally isn’t an identity, it’s consistent action and an ongoing life journey

  • Intersectionality and the nuances that shape how we navigate our workplaces and relationships

  • How to focus on incremental shifts, actions, and growth as an ally and disrupt bias

  • The difference between your real impact vs. your intention as an ally

  • How to practice equity, inclusion, and belonging and social justice in and out of your work community as a leader

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Empowering Leadership for Remote & Global Teams

Working remote has its benefits and also has its opportunities. As a leader, it’s important to intentionally foster trust, psychological safety, and belonging in order to show your employees you care about their well-being.

Key takeaways:

  • Coaching across cultures and generations with remote teams

  • Understanding how intersectional identities impact historical and traditional power dynamics and work connections

  • A global inclusive approach paired with local context, planning, and integration

  • Tips and practices you can implement today to create belonging and trust

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Radical Visionary: Getting Clear On Your Values & Goal-Setting

This experiential workshop will illuminate the obstacles that prevent marginalized team members from excelling in high-impact roles.

Key takeaways:

  • The root causes of internal and external challenges women of color face that show up as burnout, imposter syndrome, and playing small.

  • How to identify their personal North Star.

  • How to set values-aligned goals.

  • How to explore and answer important existential questions like “What would make me happy” and “What is the impact I want to make as a leader?”

  • Ways to commit and take actionable steps forward.

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Speaking

 
 
 

2nd Annual Entrepinays Lightning Talk

 

Women in Product Conference 2022