A Speaker Who Changes the Temperature of the Room.

Dilys Sillah does not deliver information. She creates an experience. Whether she is addressing a corporate audience on emotionally intelligent leadership, facilitating a conversation about AI and human communication, or standing as MC at an event that needs more than a compere, she brings the rare combination of intellectual rigour, emotional intelligence, and genuine presence that people remember long after the event is over.

SIGNATURE TOPICS

Keynote Speaking

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Presence: The Foundational Dimension of Communication

What separates the leaders people follow from the leaders people endure. The original framework that has attracted academic interest at the highest level. What every communication model has missed and why it changes everything about how human beings communicate, in every context, in every relationship, and in every room.

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Human Communication in the Age of AI

What AI cannot replace, whose voices are being encoded into the systems being built, and what organisations and individuals need to understand before technology reflects their communication culture back at them at scale.

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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

What separates the leaders people follow from the leaders people endure. The original framework that has attracted academic interest at the highest level. What every communication model has missed and why it changes everything about how human beings communicate, in every context, in every relationship, and in every room.

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Burnout: The Organisational Signal Everyone Ignores

Burnout is not a personal failing. It is an organisational message. What causes it, what it costs, and what genuinely prevents it at both the individual and institutional level.  The Hidden Cost of Conflict Where conflict comes from in organisations and relationships, what it actually costs, and what emotionally intelligent conflict resolution looks like in practice.

Grief: The Loss Nobody Talks About Grief is not only the loss of a person. It is the loss of a relationship, an identity, a future you had already begun to imagine. How unprocessed grief shows up in leadership, in relationships, and in the body, and what genuine healing requires.  Not This Widow: Navigating Loss, Identity, and Survival Drawing on her deeply personal experience of widowhood and her bestselling book, Dilys speaks about what grief in its most profound form actually demands, and what it means to rebuild yourself from the ground up. 

Marriage, Relationships, and the Patterns We Bring Why relationships fail not because of lack of love but because of unexamined patterns, unmet needs, and the wounds we bring from earlier in life into the people we choose to love.  Gender Based Violence and the Courage to Name It Drawing on her TEDx talk and her book Predator or Prince: How to Find the Man of Your Dreams Not Your Nightmares, Dilys speaks about gender based violence, how it is recognised, how it is survived, and what it takes to build a life on the other side of it. 


The Capacity to Heal and The Capacity to Love: Restoring Human Wholeness Built on the original Glass Framework methodology, Dilys speaks about what it means to be born whole, what life does to that wholeness, and what genuine restoration requires. This is not motivational speaking. It is a rigorous, deeply human exploration of why we are the way we are, what depleted us, and what it actually takes to develop the capacity to heal from what happened and the capacity to love without fear, without depletion, and without losing yourself in the process.

Grief: The Loss Nobody Talks About Grief is not only the loss of a person. It is the loss of a relationship, an identity, a future you had already begun to imagine. How unprocessed grief shows up in leadership, in relationships, and in the body, and what genuine healing requires.  Not This Widow: Navigating Loss, Identity, and Survival Drawing on her deeply personal experience of widowhood and her bestselling book, Dilys speaks about what grief in its most profound form actually demands, and what it means to rebuild yourself from the ground up. 

Marriage, Relationships, and the Patterns We Bring Why relationships fail not because of lack of love but because of unexamined patterns, unmet needs, and the wounds we bring from earlier in life into the people we choose to love.  Gender Based Violence and the Courage to Name It Drawing on her TEDx talk and her book Predator or Prince: How to Find the Man of Your Dreams Not Your Nightmares, Dilys speaks about gender based violence, how it is recognised, how it is survived, and what it takes to build a life on the other side of it. 


The Capacity to Heal and The Capacity to Love: Restoring Human Wholeness Built on the original Glass Framework methodology, Dilys speaks about what it means to be born whole, what life does to that wholeness, and what genuine restoration requires. This is not motivational speaking. It is a rigorous, deeply human exploration of why we are the way we are, what depleted us, and what it actually takes to develop the capacity to heal from what happened and the capacity to love without fear, without depletion, and without losing yourself in the process.

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MC and Events Hosting

Dilys has hosted and facilitated weddings, corporate conferences, awards ceremonies, community events, and leadership gatherings. She brings warmth, professionalism, and the confidence of someone entirely at home at the front of any room.

TEDx Talk

A Speaker Who Changes the Temperature of the Room.

This talk addresses gender based violence and may be difficult to watch

Speaking Credentials

Trusted on the world's leading stages.


• TEDx Alumna


• Mövenpick Grand Al Bustan

Dubai


Ghana Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration

Accra, Ghana


• Office of the First Lady & Vice President of Ghana

Ghana


• Tullow Oil Ghana

Ghana


• Royal College of Nursing

London, UK


Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

London, UK


Corporate & Leadership Conferences

United Kingdom & International


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