Hailed as “life-changing” “riveting” “completely unique” “bold” and “profound,” Allison Massari’s keynotes are unforgettable—uplifting and energizing teams and leaders, alleviating burnout, and activating empathy, creativity and empowerment. Working with Allison unleashes an inner strength and professional enthusiasm that transforms work culture and attracts and retains top talent. Her potent message has reached audiences in more than 75 countries and is a testament to hope, relentless perseverance, and radical compassion. Allison has been named one of the Top Ten Best Motivational Speakers in North America by Meetings and Conventions Magazine and has been featured on PBS, ABC, FOX, and NBC networks.
Her diverse client list includes: Microsoft, 3M, GE Healthcare IT, Intel, MDRT, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Lilly, Allscripts, Siemens Healthcare, and McKesson.
As an international keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and award winning visual artist, Allison has forged her path to success with creativity, tenacity, and deep gratitude. A masterful storyteller with a fascinating history, Allison survived two devastating and near fatal car accidents, one where she was trapped inside her car, burned alive and sustained severe burns on over 50% of her body. Astonishingly, navigating these experiences compelled her to discover an unshakeable strength and ultimately find even more passion for her life and work.
Allison’s groundbreaking and timeless keynotes teach the mindset to successfully develop personal command and self-leadership, and excites your audience to see struggle and change through a profound and empowering new lens. She takes great care in getting to know her clients—their industry distinction, their mission, and their audience. Her personal history strengthens her unique ability to address important and sensitive subjects without alienating individuals—a particular asset for Healthcare clients, where she is a leading educator, providing Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education Units (CEU).
With her tireless belief in the power of community and compassion, Allison began helping children and teens with severe burn injuries on the advent of her own recovery from her accident. She founded The Roger Pepper Adventure Camps in 1998, a revolutionary outdoor sports program, named after the man who risked his own life to save her when he pulled her from her burning car. These innovative programs powerfully build confidence, hope, and healing in young participants and transform lives to this day at the Adaptive Sports Center in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Allison began her entrepreneurial pursuits as an award-winning visual artist. Her work has been sought out by museums and private art collectors internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. Her colorful and sublime visual art serves as a breathtaking backdrop to all of her keynotes.
Allison Massari’s keynotes are jaw-dropping, heartfelt, and deeply inspirational. Prepare to be taken on a journey.
“My work is a celebration of the power of the human spirit. I provide truly unique tools for self-mastery and self-leadership to alleviate burnout and elevate company culture—while encouraging you to defiantly choose to shine your light no matter what is happening to you, or in the world around you.”—Allison Massari
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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