Betrayal Recovery Keynote Speaker

Bring Dr. Debi Silber to Your Stage

Your Best Years Aren’t Behind You — They’re Next

Most people spend their first act surviving, striving, or holding everything together — building the career, raising the family, getting through it. Then one day they look up, everything they worked for is in place, and something still feels missing.

That’s where Dr. Debi Silber’s work comes in.

Dr. Debi spent a decade as the world’s leading expert in betrayal recovery, building The PBT® Institute into the world’s leading organization for betrayal research, education, and transformation — helping people move through the hardest chapters of their lives. Then she made a deliberate choice: to write her own next act, and to speak from the other side of it. A PhD researcher and 2x TEDx speaker, she brings the same research rigor that built her first career to a new question — what comes after survival, and how to live fully rather than just function. Her talks aren’t about bouncing back to where you were. They’re about building a second act that’s fuller than the first.

Why Audiences Bring in Dr. Debi Silber

She is:
An award winning speaker and 2x TEDx speaker (2M+ combined views)
PhD researcher and holistic psychologist, health, wellness and lifestyle expert
2x #1 international bestselling author
Former host of the globally 1% ranked podcast From Betrayal to Breakthrough
Founder of National Forgiveness Day (September 1st)
Featured on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, and many more

What Her Talks Are About

Living more fully and holistically. Physical, mental, and emotional health were never meant to be managed separately — Dr. Debi shows audiences what it looks like to stop compartmentalizing and start treating their whole life as one thing.

Reinvesting in what got neglected. Health, time in nature, unhurried time with friends and family — the things that quietly get pushed to the bottom of the list during the years spent surviving, striving, or holding everything together. Her talks make the case for putting them back at the top.

Squeezing more out of each day. Not busyness — presence. Dr. Debi speaks to the difference between getting more tasks done and getting more life out of the time you actually have.

Why This Matters

Somewhere along the way, a lot of people learned to run their health, their relationships, and their work as three separate projects — optimizing one while quietly neglecting the other two. It works, for a while. But it isn’t the same as living well.

Dr. Debi’s message to audiences is simple: your second act doesn’t have to be smaller than your first. It can be the most fully lived chapter yet — and she’s not just teaching that, she’s living it.

Why Event Planners Choose Dr. Debi Silber?

She doesn't just inspire. She gives audiences a research-backed framework they can use immediately to understand why people get stuck, what's actually driving underperformance, and what the pathway to real transformation looks like.

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Most Requested Talks

Second Acts: How to Rebuild Confidence, Identity, and Joy After Life’s Biggest Ruptures

Whatever the rupture — divorce, loss, a career upheaval, an empty nest, a health scare, a marriage that has to be rebuilt from the ground up — the path back to yourself follows a similar arc. Dr. Debi draws on a decade of research and her own very public second act to give people a real, honest roadmap for stepping into a bigger next chapter, at any age or stage.

It’s Not Burnout, It’s Betrayal

You’ve tried the strategies. You’ve optimized your schedule, set better boundaries, gone to therapy, taken the retreats. So why are you still exhausted, stuck, and struggling to feel like yourself — at work, in your health, in your relationships?

The answer might not be burnout at all.

Research across 100,000+ people in 50+ countries reveals a hidden culprit behind the depletion, disconnection, and loss of drive so many people mistake for burnout — it’s called Post Betrayal Syndrome®. Whether it came from a business partner, a spouse, a friend, a family member, or even yourself, unhealed betrayal silently sabotages your health, focus, relationships, and results — and it rarely stays contained to the one area of life where it happened.

In this talk, Dr. Debi Silber — PhD researcher, two-time TEDx speaker, and former founder of The Post Betrayal Transformation Institute — introduces the Five Stages of Betrayal Recovery™ and shows you exactly where you’re stuck, and what it takes to finally move forward — in your work, your health, and your relationships.

Unhealed, Unseen, Unspoken: The One Thing Sabotaging Professionals Every Day

It's not mindset. It's not skill. It's unhealed betrayal — and it's quietly draining performance, presence, and potential across your organization. Dr. Debi Silber reveals why betrayal is a distinct emotional injury that rarely gets named, how it shows up as chronic overworking, disengagement, and reactive decision-making even in top performers, and why talk therapy alone often isn't enough to resolve it. She introduces the research-based Five Stages of Betrayal Recovery™ and shows leaders, HR, and teams what it actually takes to build a culture that heals people, not just extracts performance from them.

The Hidden Cost of Broken Trust: What Betrayal Is Doing to Your Workforce — and What to Do About It

When trust breaks down in the workplace — through leadership failures, broken promises, toxic team dynamics, or organizational betrayal — employees don’t just feel hurt. They get sick, they disengage, and they leave. Research across 100,000+ people in 50+ countries has identified a measurable cluster of symptoms known as Post Betrayal Syndrome®, with more than 60 documented physical, mental, and emotional symptoms that directly erode the behaviors organizations need most: focus, collaboration, creativity, and commitment.

In this session, Dr. Debi Silber — whose doctoral research uncovered both the syndrome and a predictable, five-stage pathway out of it — translates the science of betrayal and broken trust into a practical framework for HR professionals, wellness leaders, and organizational champions. Attendees will walk away understanding why standard wellness programs often fail to move the needle for employees carrying unresolved trust wounds, and what evidence-informed strategies actually work.

This is not a session about “being nice.” It’s about protecting your most expensive asset — human performance — by addressing the invisible driver of turnover, presenteeism, and burnout that most organizations are overlooking entirely.