Hire Dr. Debi Silber to Speak
Grow Your Impact and Your Practice by Supporting the Most Overlooked Niche in Coaching
Coaches are trained to ask powerful questions, hold space, and facilitate growth. But what happens when a client is doing “everything right” — and still can’t move forward?
That’s where Dr. Debi Silber’s work comes in.
Dr. Debi is the founder of The Post Betrayal Transformation® (PBT®) Institute and a PhD researcher whose work helps coaches identify and ethically work with one of the most misunderstood blocks in coaching: unresolved trust breaches.
Her talks give coaches language, clarity, and frameworks for recognizing what’s happening beneath resistance, overthinking, burnout, and self-doubt — without stepping outside the coaching scope.Why Coaches Choose Dr. Debi Silber?
Dr. Debi isn’t a motivational speaker — she’s a coach educator and researcher.
She is:
-A 2x TEDx speaker (over 1M views for each talk)
-PhD researcher in Post Betrayal Syndrome® and Post Betrayal Transformation®
-International bestselling author
-Globally ranked podcast host
-Trainer of coaches and practitioners worldwide
What makes her work especially valuable to coaches is this:
She doesn’t teach coaches to do therapy. She teaches them how to recognize when trust wounds are present, avoid common mistakes, and coach ethically, effectively, and confidently.
Her research-based 5-stage framework gives coaches a clear way to understand client readiness, pacing, and progress — so they stop pushing too hard, mislabeling resistance, or internalizing client stuckness.
Why This Matters for Coaches
Betrayal — personal or professional — shows up in coaching as:
- Chronic self-doubt
- Difficulty trusting decisions
- Burnout or over-functioning
- Avoidance masked as “I’m fine”
- Repeating patterns in relationships or work
- Fear of visibility or leadership
- Clients who “understand everything” but don’t change
Most coaches aren’t trained to recognize this — and end up questioning themselves.
Dr. Debi’s work helps coaches see:
It’s not a skill gap. It’s a trust injury — and it follows predictable stages.
Most Requested Talks
1
When Coaching Tools Aren’t Enough: Why Some Clients Stay Stuck — and What Coaches Are Missing
For: ICF chapters, coach training organizations, coaching conferences
This talk helps coaches identify when unresolved trust breaches are driving client behavior — and how to adjust pacing, language, and expectations without crossing into therapy or trauma work.
2
The Stuck Client Solution: Spotting the Betrayal That's Sabotaging Your Coaching Results
For: Life, Business, Health, Leadership, Performance and Relationship Coaches
Your frameworks are proven. Your strategies work. Yet your client remains stuck—unable to move forward, self-sabotaging, or losing the momentum that brought them to you. The problem isn't your coaching. It's what you were never trained to see.
3
The Hidden Wound Holding Back Your Best: How Unhealed Betrayal Sabotages Success
For: Executives, high achievers, personal development events, women's groups
You’re doing the work, hitting the goals—but still feel off. This keynote exposes how betrayal disguises itself as burnout, imposter syndrome, or overperformance, and offers a research-backed roadmap to move from stuck to successful.
4
Shattered Trust, Silent Impact: What No One’s Talking About That’s Affecting You at Work
For: HR leaders, culture conferences, leadership events, corporate wellness summits
We don’t leave our wounds at the door. This talk reveals how betrayal quietly hijacks trust, performance, and engagement—and how to support healing to unlock innovation, retention, and resilience.
"Dr. Debi had our audience captivated. She didn’t just speak—she gave them a breakthrough."
"Every single person in that room saw themselves in her talk. That’s rare."
"Professional. Powerful. One of our best speakers this year."
Most popular Presentations
MGM Grand
SHRM Talent 2025
The Women’s Summit, Bryant University
What Your Audience Will Discover:
The Invisible Performance Killer – How betrayal trauma disrupts the exact outcomes you're coaching toward: clear thinking, confident decisions, healthy relationships, consistent follow-through, and sustained progress.
The Diagnostic Framework You're Missing – Recognize the subtle signs of Post Betrayal Syndrome®—from overcompensating perfectionism to self-sabotage and isolation—that traditional assessments miss entirely.
The 5 Stages from Betrayal to Breakthrough – Master the research-backed roadmap showing exactly where your client is stuck and what will actually move them forward.
Why Your Best Tools Aren't Working – Understand the neuroscience: standard coaching techniques fail when the nervous system is locked in survival mode.
Ready to inspire your audience?
Let’s start the conversation.
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