DisruptRVA Call for Speakers!
Fall Event: Tuesday, September 23, 5-8pm / VCU School of Business
Deadline for Speaker Applications: June 30, 2025
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Thank you to our 2024 Speaker Coaches and Event Volunteers!


Director of Operations, Lost Office Collaborative
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CEO, Buckingham Greenery
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Assistant Vice President, Marketing Operations, Jenius Bank
Latest Talks

Our hope for DisruptHR in RVA is that the ripple-effect inspiration makes work better for people in Richmond.
Better for employees and leaders. Better for companies and their customers. Better for their families and friends!
Everyone. Making work part of a life well-lived.
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Roxanne Brown and Ed Cook
Co-Owners & Champions for DisruptRVA
Want to be part of DisruptRVA 2025?
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"I am not a Machine": How to do Good Work vs. Hard Work | Keonna Knight
See Keonna's TalkMeet our Emcee:
Todd Waldo
Todd does it again!! Our perfect emcee for DisruptRVA, Todd creates an atmosphere for everyone that’s uniquely Disrupt.
Speakers have a big task: Deliver a powerful message inside a challenging format (5 minutes, 20 slides advancing automatically every 20 seconds) and energize, inform and empower the audience. Speakers mess up! Perfection is not the point.
Success is when an audience member takes something away and tries something new the very next day.
Todd makes sure everyone understands this. He keeps the energy up -- the audience encouraging the speakers, the speakers inspired by the audience. A complete uplift for everyone!
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Cultivating Joy at Work: The Art of Rule Breaking | Alex DerHovannessian
See Alex's TalkWhat is Disrupt?
Disrupt is an information exchange designed to energize, inform and empower people in the HR field.
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What happened in 2023?
See DisruptRVA's 11 inspiring and energizing speakers of 2023.
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