Meet Dr. V
📊Organizational Psychologist 🎤Keynote Speaker 📚Author
Real Data.
Real Stories. Real Change.
Dr. Victoria Mattingly, (Dr. V) is a PhD-trained organizational psychologist, bestselling author, and dynamic keynote speaker.
She’s delivered over 100 keynotes, webinars, and workshops to businesses, non-profits, membership organizations, and educational institutions—turning complex topics like allyship, workplace inclusion, and mental health into engaging, actionable, data-driven behavior and mindset change.
If you're looking for a keynote speaker who blends personal storytelling, psychological science, and workplace strategy—Dr. V brings it.
"If you're looking for a keynote speaker who blends personal storytelling, psychological science, and workplace strategy—Dr. V brings it."
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Most Requested Keynote Topics
Learn how to turn good intentions into impactful action by practicing everyday allyship in the workplace.
This keynote equips audiences with practical tools for building trust, owning missteps, and becoming consistent, accountable partners in inclusion.
Mental health challenges are part of the human experience—and they show up at work.
In this powerful keynote, Dr. V breaks the stigma and offers actionable strategies for creating psychologically safe, supportive workplaces where everyone can thrive.
What happens when your difference can’t be hidden?
Drawing from her lived experience with alopecia, Dr. V explores how to embrace visible differences with confidence—and how leaders and allies can help foster belonging for all bodies, identities, and abilities.
Want something tailored to your industry, audience, or event theme?
Dr. V collaborates with clients to design custom keynotes that blend psychological science, storytelling, and real-world relevance—ensuring your people walk away inspired and equipped to take action.
➡️ Book Dr. V now to inspire, educate, and energize your audience.
Dr. V's Signature Keynotes
Act Like an Ally, Work with an Ally
Based on her latest book, this keynote helps participants understand that allyship isn’t a solo act—it’s a partnership.
Dr. V explores how power, privilege, and identity dynamics influence how we show up for each other at work and in life.
Your audience will leave with practical tools to take action—whether they identify as an ally or someone in need of one.
Key Takeaways:
✅ Understand allyship as a shared, two-way partnership
✅ Recognize how power, privilege, and identity shape workplace dynamics
✅ Gain tools to show up as an ally—and to work effectively with allies
Ideal for: Conferences, Leadership summits, ERG events, Professional associations
Mental Health Allyship: From Stigma to Support
Mental health affects us all. Yet too often, it's shrouded in silence at work. In this powerful and personal keynote, Dr. V shares her lived experience with mental illness alongside evidence-based strategies for fostering psychological safety.
Audiences will walk away inspired and equipped to build a workplace culture where it’s safe to struggle, speak up, and seek support—without shame.
Key Takeaways:
✅ Strategies to actively reduce stigma and normalize mental health conversations in the workplace
✅ Tools to advocate for your own mental health needs at work
✅ Practical ways to be a mental health ally to colleagues and direct reports
Ideal for: People leaders, HR professionals, Culture and Engagement programming, Wellness and Mental Health-focused events
From Othered to Empowered: Navigating Visible Differences
Whether it’s race, disability, body size, medical devices, or baldness—visible differences shape how we see ourselves and how others see and treat us.
In this vulnerable and empowering keynote, Dr. V draws on her personal journey with alopecia to explore what it means to show up authentically when you stand out physically.
She also shares how leaders and allies can foster workplaces where difference isn’t just tolerated—it’s truly valued.
Audiences will leave with a deeper understanding of the challenges people with visible differences face and practical tools to support authenticity, inclusion, and belonging for all.
Key Takeaways:
✅ What it means to live and lead with a visible difference
✅ How stigma, bias, and curiosity show up in day-to-day interactions
✅ Allyship strategies to support authenticity and belonging
✅ Tools for creating a culture where physical differences are embraced, not erased
Ideal for: People leaders, Workplace inclusion events, Identity-specific programming (e.g., Disability Employment Awareness Month, Alopecia Awareness Month), and ERGs focused on disability, appearance, or chronic illness
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