Speaker • Executive Coach • Consultant
Bring Rhonda into the conversation.
Rhonda M. Roorda brings together lived experience, scholarship, leadership, storytelling, and decades of professional experience to create conversations that move people from simply hearing something to thinking differently about it.
Ways to Engage
A conversation can become a catalyst.
Rhonda works with organizations, leaders, institutions, and communities that are ready to explore identity, difference, leadership, belonging, communication, and the human stories behind the issues we face.
Speaking
Keynotes, conferences, moderated conversations, panels, and community events that connect research, lived experience, and storytelling to the questions people are already asking.
Executive Coaching
Thought partnership for leaders navigating complexity, identity, communication, organizational change, professional transitions, and the challenge of leading across difference.
Consulting
Strategic insight for organizations working through culture, communication, equity, identity, leadership, community engagement, and complex human-centered challenges.
Experience & Perspective
Experience that expands the conversation.
Rhonda's perspective has been shaped by scholarship, professional leadership, authorship, national media, television, and decades of work helping organizations and people navigate complex issues.
Signature Conversations
Topics that invite people to think differently.
Rhonda's work sits at the intersection of identity, race, adoption, belonging, leadership, communication, family, and voice. Each conversation can be shaped for the audience and the moment.
Beyond Belonging
Identity • Race • The Search for Home
What does belonging mean when the world around us has already
assigned us an identity?
Torn from the Root
Identity • Adoption • Reclaiming Your Story
A deeply personal conversation about adoption, identity,
memory, family, race, and finding one's own voice.
The Conversations That Change Us
Listening • Difference • Human Connection
How honest conversation can create space for curiosity,
understanding, and meaningful connection.
Leading Through Difference
Leadership • Communication • Culture
Practical insight for leaders navigating difference,
complexity, organizational culture, and change.
When Family and Identity Collide
Race • Adoption • Family
Exploring the complicated intersections of family,
identity, race, history, and belonging.
From Lived Experience to Leadership
Storytelling • Voice • Authentic Leadership
How lived experience can inform leadership without becoming
a limitation on how we see ourselves.
Who Brings Rhonda In?
Conversations for organizations that want more than a keynote.
Rhonda's work can be adapted for professional, academic, community, nonprofit, faith-based, healthcare, adoption, and leadership audiences.
A Perspective Built Over Time
Research.
Leadership.
Storytelling.
Rhonda brings together perspectives that rarely occupy the same room: scholar, author, organizational leader, media contributor, executive coach, consultant, and Black transracial adoptee.
That combination allows her to move comfortably between the personal and the professional, the deeply human and the organizational, the story and the larger conversation.
Author & Scholar
Five books spanning research, scholarship, transracial adoption, identity, and memoir.
Professional Leader
More than 30 years of professional experience leading, communicating, problem-solving, and working across organizations.
National Media
Experience with ABC, CNN, Good Morning America, People, and other national media platforms.
Television
Television consultant for the Emmy-winning series This Is Us.
Let's Work Together
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A keynote. A conference. A leadership conversation. A workshop. A coaching engagement. A difficult question that deserves more thoughtful space.
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Tell us a little about your organization, event, or opportunity. Whether you're planning a keynote, conference, workshop, coaching engagement, consultation, or media conversation, we'd love to hear what you have in mind.