23WIP Workshop Host
Nadia De Ala
Founder, Leadership Coach
Real You Leadership

Nadia De Ala is the founder of Real You Leadership, a facilitator, and a leadership and negotiation coach supporting women of color in technology to thrive in their careers and close their leadership and pay gaps.
Previously in tech sales for Booking.com, and as the first Senior Account Manager at HelloSign, she understands what it means to navigate being “the only” — the only woman and only POC in the room.
Nadia has coached 150+ individual contributors, leaders, managers, and VPs to thrive in their lives and careers at companies that include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Disney+, Hubspot, Booking.com, Expedia, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Roche, Splunk, and Salesforce.
Through Real You Leadership, she has partnered to host workshops and talks for leaders in General Assembly, Google, Kapor Capital, WeWork, Gusto, Airbnb, Flatiron Health, Niantic Labs, Splunk, Clever, 2U, and the Women’s Watermark Conference.
Her work has been featured in CNBC, HuffPost, FastCompany, New York Times Kids, and The Muse.