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Allison Massari knows that you have the power to transform lives. As an advocate for both patients and healthcare professionals, Massari has an intimate understanding of the demands and challenges of the medical profession, and compelling authority to address the current needs of the healthcare industry. She experienced firsthand the critical value of receiving personalized health care from committed leadership teams and empathetic providers after surviving two life-threatening car accidents, one where she suffered second and third degree burns on over 50 percent of her body. In addition, raised by parents who were both clinicians—her father an otolaryngologist whose primary focus was on oncologic cases, and her mother a nurse who worked in the emergency department, operating room and even newborn nursery across her career—Allison grew up immersed in the healthcare field. Captivated by her parent’s compassionate work, she shadowed her father in his practice and also worked in hospitals and medical office settings. As she shares her riveting and courageous journey from absolute loss to a triumphant and hope-filled life, Allison shines light on how all healthcare professional’s provide immense value to a patient who is suffering. Her artistic storytelling and the profound lessons she learned inspires confidence and self-leadership, while elevating hearts and building resiliency within the challenges of the high-pressure healthcare work environment.
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Be the One℠
Healthcare Keynote Speaker Allison Massari
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Mastering the Art of Resilience
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This keynote is a very inspirational speech, unifies everyone in the room, and is packed with takeaways for people to immediately start using in their lives. I work closely with my clients to tailor the message for each audience in healthcare and I am passionate about connecting everyone to their impact on compassionate care—including those without direct patient contact. Alongside my patient experience stories I provide very specific tools for personal and professional development, overcoming adversity, courage, self leadership, with a model of the five components of a healthy fully-functioning resilience mindset. This program is described by clients as "deeply moving”, “profound”, “bold", “life-changing". It is a riveting program through compelling storytelling.
A Timeless Message of Hope, Joy, Courage, and Triumph—Your Audience Will be Forever Changed
Excellent for Resilience, Inspiration, Mindset, and Empowerment
Launching with a powerful story of triumph after being burned alive in a fire, Allison’s astounding inspirational keynote offers life-changing tools to immediately rise above any obstacle and ignite an unquenchable passion, strength, and inspired vitality. In today’s changing world of merging companies, new leadership, digital transformation, hypercompetition, burnout and isolation, Allison Massari brings a fresh and riveting message of hope and possibility to her audiences. With genuine encouragement and support, she intimately shares the nuances of how to respond to change and difficult circumstances and maintain personal command and integrity despite turbulent times. As Allison states, “The truth is, the same internal fire and ‘command of self’ that I needed to heal my life is exactly what has given me success personally and professionally.” Allison Massari’s keynote elevates self-leadership, celebrates the power of taking personal responsibility, and reconnects audiences to a sense of real purpose and fulfillment in their work. Prepare to be taken on a journey.
Deliverables for The Fire Within:
- Triumph Through Change
- Expand Courage and Unconditional Confidence
- Amplify Self-Leadership: Have Personal Command in All Moments
- Clearly Understand the 5 Components of a Resilient Mindset
- Inspire Compassionate Leadership
- Unify Your Workforce
- Grow Inspired Personal and Professional Development
- Establish a Foundation for Wellness and Well-Being
- Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit
Excellent for Resilience, Inspiration, Mindset, and Empowerment
People often believe that resilience is just about grit and determination, but that is how you burn out. Allison Massari’s innovative and timely keynote reveals the five active qualities that we all need to access in order to build and support a healthy, fully-functioning resilience mindset. Allison describes these qualities as “Five Kinds of Courage.” She explains, “In the fullness of true resilience, you don’t just survive—you become a better version of yourself on every level. You come into true aliveness.” Allison creatively crafts her material with truly unique concepts, boosting confidence and well-being and teaching secrets to achieving a resilience mindset that you haven’t heard. You’ll receive a new perspective from which to see the world and walk away with effective methods to handle challenges and move towards your dreams and goals with courage, purpose, and the strength of an open heart.
Deliverables for Activating True Resilience:
- Triumph Through Change
- Expand Courage and Unconditional Confidence
- Amplify Self-Leadership: Have Personal Command in All Moments
- Clearly Understand the 5 Components of a Resilient Mindset
- Inspire Compassionate Leadership
- Unify Your Workforce
- Grow Inspired Personal and Professional Development
- Establish a Foundation for Wellness and Well-Being
- Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit
Excellent for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment
What mindset is needed to generate inner vibrancy and buoyant aliveness in our work and life and grow a happier, more productive workforce? How do we always lead with our presence and care and fully engage the hearts of our people, colleagues and clients? In her timely and visionary keynote, acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur and visual artist, Allison Massari, teaches powerful tools to develop innovative thinking and an empowered sense of purpose, personal command, and connection that elevates company culture, and quite simply—makes our own life better. Through her captivating stories, you will also learn the incomparable art of expressing your appreciation for others. Allison explains, “Instead of waiting for the world to give us what we want and crave, we can make the decision to GIVE what we want to RECEIVE—to ‘Be the One.’ This is a way to take charge of our culture and radically transform our experience of our professional environment and our life.” Packed with content and original concepts, audiences are transported by her fascinating personal stories of art, Vivaldi, Mozart, Austria, her Italian family, and so much more. Bolstered by a renewed sense of unity and inspiration your teams will walk away feeling revitalized, refreshed, and ready to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. See life and work from a completely new and exciting lens. Prepare to be taken on a very special journey.
Deliverables For Be the One:
- Inspire Radiant Leadership and Teamwork
- Learn the Incomparable Art of Expressing Your Appreciation for Those Around You
- Unify Your Leaders and Workforce through a Heart-Led Culture Shift
- Activate a Buoyant Aliveness and Inner Vitality for your Work and Life
- Strengthen Employee Retention
- Radically Elevate Company Culture
- Grow the Skill to Foster New, Untapped Talents Within Each Person
- Acquire Unexpected & Game-Changing Tools to Alleviate Burnout
NOTE: An abbreviated (15 minute) variation of this speech is available as an add-on to The Fire Within. Excellent as a unifying closing to your conference.
Excellent for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment
What if you had limitless energy and vitality in your work and in life? Allison Massari’s life-changing keynote propels audiences to experience personal command and provides tools to energize, renew and activate total aliveness. Through captivating and hope filled stories, you will experience a boundless and buoyant readiness to see the world with new eyes and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. With this fresh and bold perspective you will also learn the incomparable art of expressing your appreciation for those around you, and witness how this radically enhances your work culture and well-being. Her unforgettable keynote is a celebration of the human spirit—inspiring heart-led leadership, compassion and empathy skills in the workplace, and leaving audiences with a true sense of purpose and belonging. Bolstered by a sense of unity and empowerment, your teams will walk away feeling revitalized, refreshed, and seeing their life and their work from a completely new and exciting lens. Your people will be forever changed.
“I don’t believe there is a group who could sit before the pure magic Allison brings to a room and not be forever changed.”—Eli Lilly and Company
Key Takeaways:
- Inspire Radiant Leadership and Teamwork
- Learn the Incomparable Art of Expressing Your Appreciation for Those Around You
- Unify Your Leaders and Workforce through a Heart-Led Culture Shift
- Activate a Buoyant Aliveness and Inner Vitality for your Work and Life
- Strengthen Employee Retention
- Radically Elevate Company Culture
- Grow the Skill to Foster New, Untapped Talents Within Each Person
- Acquire Unexpected & Game-Changing Tools to Alleviate Burnout
This groundbreaking and uplifting program can be offered for CME & CEU’s
Allison’s life-changing healthcare keynote illustrates the fact that every healthcare professional—including those who do not have direct patient contact—have a crucial impact on person-centered care. Passionate about tailoring her keynote to address the specific issues affecting each audience, Allison has worked with diverse groups within healthcare including: Leaders, Physicians, HR, Nurses, Finance, IT, Environmental Services, Laboratorians, Diagnosticians, Pharmacists, Physical Therapists, Insurance, Pharmaceutical Sales, and more. By specifically recognizing the ways that their work is directly tied to a human being, Allison generates a deeper connection to the patient experience for each participant. They learn that their expertise, attentiveness, and devotion improve the health and success of patients while boosting their own sense of well-being and directly affecting the bottom line.
Deliverables For Healthcare:
- Navigate Change Successfully and Unify Your Workforce
- Alleviate Burnout—Reclaim Your Passion for a Life’s Work in Healthcare
- Activate Self-Leadership: Having Personal Command in All Moments
- Expand Courage and Unconditional Confidence
- Encourage, Nourish, and Celebrate Your People
- Illuminate the Power of Empathy
- Provide a Powerful Presence for the Patient Voice
- Highlight How Those With or Without Direct Patient Contact - Impact the Patient Experience
- Inspire Patient Safety Through a Critically Acclaimed Survivor Story
- Receive a Balm of Hope, Comfort, and Well-Being
- Energize Compassionate Leadership and Work Culture
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