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Looking for an inspiring speaker who engages and activates your audience?
“Confidence isn’t a personality trait. It’s a language, and I can teach you to speak it fluently.”
Why book rosie?
Many confidence keynotes tell people to fake it till they make it. Rosie does the opposite. Her training in theatre means she approaches confidence the way a top performer approaches a scene in a rehearsal room: something you play with, dismantle, reflect on, and ultimately build and shape into a solid, reliable skill.
What makes her different on stage is her honesty. She'll tell a room of executives about the day she let a psychic into her garden to help her look for her dog, or time she pretended to be a private detective, and somehow it lands as the most useful thing they hear all year. Because underneath the story is a high-value, practical tool they can use in their next difficult conversation, decision, or moment of doubt. Audiences laugh and cry but more importantly, they leave with something actionable.
About Rosie
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Rosie Dalling spent a decade in theatre including a stint at the Donmar Warehouse where she worked with the likes of Alan Rickman and Dame Judi Dench. This was a masterclass in presence and performance. Rosie’s first career in global advertising taught her how to craft compelling, engaging stories. She founded The Boost to combine these skills: as a confidence and communication coach working with C-suite leaders and senior executives at TikTok, Visa, Citi, M&S, Paramount, and the Houses of Parliament.
Her core belief, tested across hundreds of coaching engagements, is simple: confidence isn't something you're born with. It's a craft: closer to a language than a personality trait, and like any language, it can be learned, practised, played with and refined. She took that idea to the TEDx Leith stage, and explores it further each week on her podcast, In Confidence.
Rosie’s talks are built from deep research: a 20-year forecasting study, sociology on weak ties, observations from classic writers including Viktor Frankl, stitched together with the kind of stories most speakers would edit out for being too honest: a six-day search for a missing puppy, a client who arrived at her office mid-affair-discovery still smoking a cigarette, the moment she nearly gave up mid-labour. The result is a rare thing on the corporate stage: talks that are rigorous and genuinely moving.
YOUR HIDDEN NETWORK AND HOW TO ACTIVATE IT
A true story about a puppy who vanished for 6 days and the army of total strangers who brought her home
When Rosie's 10 week old puppy Peggy vanished from the garden, she spent six days searching with the help of people she'd never met: a retired homicide detective 253 miles away, Suffolk Lowland search and rescue and a self-declared psychic. Not one of them was a close friend, but together they brought Peggy home. It's an uplifting story about the power of weak ties, and the hidden network that exists for us all – if only we know how to use it.
Inspired by Rosie’s Tedx on 22nd June, 2026 for TEDx Leith on the theme ‘Alchemy – the art of transformation.’
THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE: HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH FEAR AND FAILURE
What a 20-year study of expert forecasters, a bouncing ball, and a client called Carmen taught Rosie about the one skill that actually protects us
This talk opens with an uncomfortable fact: the world's leading experts are barely better than chance at predicting the future. A 20-year study of 27,450 questions proved it. From there, Rosie moves between a client whose entire life turned out to be built on a lie, the 2008 financial crisis, and some of her own, near catastrophic experiences, to make the case that certainty was never the safety net we thought it was.
Open Your Eyes: why the things we're most certain of are usually what trip us up.
Pain Is The Agent Of Change: why avoiding discomfort keeps us stuck, and how to build a working relationship with fear instead of suppressing it.
Know Your Bigger Why: why a clear sense of purpose makes uncertainty survivable, even exciting.
HOW TO FIND YOUR BIGGER WHY
The cure to a problem Rosie sees over and over in coaching: what is the meaning of life?
Rosie calls it the "binary choice phenomenon": a client arrives convinced they're stuck choosing between Option A and Option B, driving themselves mad. It's almost never really about the choice. Drawing on patterns pulled from over a thousand hours of her own coaching notes, this session shows audiences what a "bigger why" actually is, the two traps (money, recognition) that convince people they've found theirs when they haven't, and a practical exercise to start finding the real thing.
Understand why no two people's bigger why ever looks the same and why generic purpose statements miss the point
Learn to spot the two traps that derail most people long before they realise it
Leave with the same reflective exercise Rosie uses in her 1-to-1 coaching room
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