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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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Transforming Lives: The Heart and Soul of Health Care℠

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.

THE FIRE WITHIN℠—THE ART OF BOLD SELF-LEADERSHIP

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

ACTIVATING TRUE RESILIENCE — SELF-MASTERY AND THE FIVE KINDS OF COURAGE℠

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

BE THE ONE℠: INSPIRE AND RETAIN LEADERS AND TEAMS THROUGH A HEART-LED CULTURE SHIFT

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.

EXPANSIVE THINKING AND RADICAL APPRECIATION OF OTHERS—EXPERIENCE YOUR WORK AND YOUR LIFE IN A WAY THAT IS TRANSCENDENT

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

FOR HEALTHCARE: TRANSFORMING LIVES: THE HEART AND SOUL OF HEALTH CARE

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

Testimonials

I watched as the entire room rose to their feet in a standing ovation. Her work is phenomenal, and life altering. I can’t tell you how many keynotes I have sat through with this company, and I have never seen the crowd so affected. 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
You were outstanding! We have been talking for years and years about the need to address burnout with our physicians and pharmacists, yet, frustratingly, we did not know what to do.. YOU just DID!! Thank you so much!
– McKesson US Oncology Network
You were OUTSTANDING! We have been talking for years and years about the need to address burnout with our physicians and pharmacists, yet, frustratingly, we did not know what to do and we have never done anything about it. YOU just DID!! Thank you so much!
– McKesson
SO SO AMAZING Allison. Everyone loved it so much. I’m getting amazing feedback. Thank you once again! We are so thankful for the experience working with you!
– Microsoft
Your bravery is astounding. You are completely AMAZING!! Thank you for your insightfulness! Thank you for your courage! Thank you for giving us energy and hope! You are without question brilliant like the very sun.
– Capital One
She is outstanding! In the history of the conference, I have never seen the audience so riveted! We were absolutely blown away. It was a truly unforgettable experience for our leaders with a full standing ovation.
– American Bankers Association
I watched as the entire room rose to their feet in a standing ovation. Her work is phenomenal, and life altering. I can’t tell you how many keynotes I have sat through with this company, and I have never seen the crowd so affected. 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
My job enables me to see world class speakers quite frequently. Truly, I have never been as moved by a story as I was by yours.
– Jennie Pauling, Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager, Wells Fargo Asset Management
Powerful! In 25 years in Financial Services I’ve heard countless keynotes and I cannot recall a single one that moved me the way Allison’s did.
– Global Investment Firm Ranked 57 on the Fortune 500
Imagine. 8,000 acute and critical care nurses gathered in a great hall listening so intently that the sound of a pin dropped to the floor would shatter the quiet. Such was the case in San Diego at NTI when Allison Massari commanded the stage. Allison became an ‘anam cara’, a soul friend, during her time on stage. The kind of friend who awakens your life and sets free the possibilities that exist within you. The kind of friend that encourages you to look and see and understand things differently. The kind of friend who refines your sensibilities and transforms your way of being in the world.
– Teri Lynn Kiss, RN, President, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
I seldom am impressed by professional speakers enough to attend their sessions 8 times in 3 months. However that is exactly what I did with Allison. Her words were simple yet penetrating as if I had never heard her before. She makes you realize how powerful and long lasting a simple kind word, a warm smile, or a caring gesture can be. I have seen her bring her audience to a wholehearted laughter and even tears and that is not an easy feat for any speaker. I never got tired of listening to her.
– Farogh Nazari , Head of Global Accreditation, Siemens
How do I begin to explain the gift of spending time with Allison Massari? You had the audience member’s heads and hearts from the moment you began to speak. Heard nothing but rave reviews as folks were leaving the event. Our president was (and still is) OVER THE MOON with joy because YOU were our Keynote Speaker. I suppose everybody says these things after an Allison Massari experience.
– Sev Scaglia, Writer/Producer/Director, Florida Realtors Association

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