What working together looks like
Once we confirm a booking, we move as a team toward one goal: an experience your audience won’t forget.
Here’s what you can expect from me:
- A pre-event briefing call to understand your audience, your culture, and what success looks like for your organisation
- A keynote tailored to your brief
- Promotion support: I will write and share engaging content about the event to my audience before the day
- Punctuality, clear communication, and zero last-minute surprises
- A post-event debrief so you know exactly what worked and what to build on
If your organisation is newer to event creation, I am also happy to advise on structure and format so the whole day works, not just my slot.
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Learn to pronounce Beatrice’s name
Beatrice’s full name is Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua. The name and surname have their roots in Beatrice’s Congolese heritage. Beatrice is a common name all over the world, and it means the one who brings beatitude. Kabutakapua is a Congolese surname meaning “eternal”.
This is how you pronounce Ngalula Kabutakapua: Nggal-ool-a Ka-Boo-Ta-ka-poo-a
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This is for you to use to introduce me. Please note: this is different from my bio.
Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua believes that your lived experience is not baggage; it is your greatest leadership asset.
As a former journalist and documentary maker turned business storytelling coach, she has spent over a decade uncovering what separates leaders who are heard from those who go unseen. Her answer is always the same: story.
She will tell you she was once terrified of her own visibility. What changed her mind is the same thing she now teaches: that sharing your story is not self-indulgence. It is one of the most powerful acts of service a leader can offer.
From a woman who once shrank from the spotlight to someone whose work and ideas have reached over 150,000 people across three continents and three languages, she is living proof of her own message.
She is the Amazon bestselling author of Lead With Your Story and has been called a genius at what she does.
Please welcome to the stage, Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua.
BIO FOR BEATRICE FOR YOU TO USE
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Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua is a business storytelling speaker, Amazon bestselling author of Lead With Your Story, and founder of The Business Storytelling Centre. A former journalist and documentary maker, she works with leaders from global organisations to help them harness the power of their lived experience, so they communicate with authority, lead with authenticity, and create cultures where people are seen. Her work has reached over 10,000 people across three continents, in English, French, and Italian.
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Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua is a business storytelling speaker, Amazon bestselling author of Lead With Your Story, and founder of The Business Storytelling Centre. A former journalist and documentary maker, she has spent over a decade at the intersection of human experience and strategic communication.
Beatrice works with leaders inside global organisations to do what most leadership training ignores: help people understand that their story, their actual lived experience, is not a liability. It is their most powerful leadership asset. She specialises in supporting women from the Global Majority, LGBTQIA+ leaders, and those from historically marginalised backgrounds to step into visibility with confidence and conviction.
Her work has reached over 10,000 people across three continents, in English, French, and Italian and consistently receives a 90% satisfaction rate.
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Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua is a business storytelling speaker, Amazon bestselling author of Lead With Your Story, and founder of The Business Storytelling Centre. A former journalist and documentary maker, she has spent over a decade studying one question: why do some leaders command a room and others, equally brilliant, go unseen?
The answer, she found, is rarely about competence. It is about their story.
Beatrice works with organisations to build cultures where diverse leaders are not just recruited, but heard and where the richness of lived experience becomes a strategic advantage rather than something to be managed. She partners with DEI, People and Culture, and L&D leaders to develop programmes that move people from invisible to inevitable: clearer in how they lead, braver in how they communicate, and more effective in how they influence.
As a Congolese-Italian woman, introvert, and mother of two, Beatrice brings the full weight of her own story to every stage she stands on. She is a passionate advocate for women from the Global Majority, LGBTQIA+ leaders, and anyone who has been told, implicitly or explicitly, that who they are is too much, or not enough. Her keynotes are not motivational filler. They are a permission structure, one that leaves audiences with the tools, language, and courage to lead differently.
Her work has reached over 10,000 and her ideas have reached more than 150,000 people across three continents, in English, French, and Italian, with a 90% satisfaction rate. Audiences describe her sessions as “thought-provoking”, “genius”, and “the most useful thing we’ve done all year.”
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TRUSTED BY
The Book
In Lead With Your Story, you will learn how to take all of the experiences from your journey, from your story, and transform them into your leadership superpower.
Where you once saw weakness, you’ll see strength
What used to categorise you as ‘different’ makes up your uniqueness
This book will guide you to being a leader who inspires future generations. A leader who doesn’t fit into a box based on who they love, their heritage, or their abilities. A leader who shares their story.