Keynote
A cognitive disruption. Your audience leaves questioning a belief they walked in treating as fact.
Who told you that?™
What if some of the biggest decisions of your life were never really yours?
You chose the career. Stayed in the relationship. Chased the title. Played it safe. Worked harder. Made yourself smaller. But what if those decisions were made by beliefs you inherited, absorbed, and accepted long before you ever thought to question them?
Deondriea Cantrice, author and speaker, challenges people and organizations to stop treating inherited beliefs as unquestionable truths. She doesn't tell you what to believe. She teaches you how to decide what deserves your belief.
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Author of Overqualified, Overworked, Overlooked. Global technology program leader. Prosci-certified in change management.
The questions you ask yourself at 2 a.m.
2 a.m. asks what you avoid all day. You've tried doing more. Working harder. Setting new goals. Changing the strategy. But what if the problem isn't what you're doing? It's what you believe.
- Why do I still doubt myself after everything I've accomplished?Doubt is a conclusion. Who drew it?
- I did everything right. Why does this still feel wrong?Whose script were you following?
- Is it too late to start over?Who gave your life a deadline?
- I know what I need to do. Why can't I do it?What would you have to believe for staying to make sense?
- I don't even know what I want anymore.How much of what you wanted was handed to you?
You may not have a confidence problem. You may have an unexamined belief problem. That's the work Deondriea calls Belief Interrogation™.
Question one of yoursBring one belief. Question it here.
Write down something you believe about yourself, your work, or what's still possible for you. You'll walk it through a short version of the I.D.E.A.L. Interrogation™, the method behind Deondriea's keynotes and workshops. Nothing you type is saved.
Your belief will appear here, in your own words.
- IIdentify
- DDeconstruct
- EExamine
- AAuthorize
- LLive
Start with a belief on the left. Each step asks one question. You decide the verdict.
One question. Four ways in.
She became a mother as a teenager, earned her degree as an adult, and rose to lead global technology programs. Now she challenges the beliefs she once had to fight her way past. Read her story
- AuthorExplore her booksBooks that name what high-achieving women carry in silence, and show how to put it down.
- SpeakerSee her keynotesWho Told You That?™ brings Belief Interrogation to conferences, leadership teams, and associations.
- CoachWork with herOne-to-one work for women at an inflection point who are ready to question the script.
- ActivistLearn moreAnti-trafficking advocacy, education, and prevention through Unmute the Silence.
The flagship keynote
Who Told You That?™
The invisible beliefs shaping how we work, lead and perform.
Deondriea helps your people question the unwritten rules underneath the behaviors you need to change. Change the belief. Change the behavior.™
Keynote and workshop
The interruption, then the application. Participants interrogate a real belief and leave with a proof action.
Executive leadership experience
A deeper facilitated session for leadership teams ready to examine the rules running their culture.
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In person, domestic and international, or virtual. Booking inquiries: win@deondriea.com
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Read the questions before you hear them.
Overqualified, Overworked, Overlooked is for the person whose value is constantly relied on but rarely rewarded. You're trusted with the work, yet when opportunities, recognition, and advancement are on the table, your contribution becomes easier to overlook.
Who Told You That?, the book behind the keynote, arrives January 2027.
What have you been obeying that never earned it?
The Belief Audit takes a few minutes. It shows you which beliefs are making your decisions right now, where they came from, and which ones deserve to keep that power.
Question what you've been told. Choose what you believe.™