Allison Massari

  • Iconic Storytelling℠ for Leaders and Changemakers—Your Audience Will be Forever Changed
  • Celebrated Artist, Burn Survivor, Resilience & Mindset Expert, Entrepreneur, Encourager
  • Customization for Healthcare on Person-Centered Care and Burnout. Packed with takeaways.
  • Top Speaker on Resilience, Empowerment, Company Culture, Retention, Self-leadership, Change, Adversity and Healthcare—reaching audiences in more than 75 countries. A Timeless Message of Hope, Joy, Courage and Triumph

While most speakers have a story to tell, there are a select few with one so impactful and poignant that the audience is forever changed. That is what happens when Allison Massari speaks.

Hailed as “life-changing” “riveting” “extraordinary” “bold” and “deeply moving” Allison Massari’s work is a celebration of the power of the human spirit, and her journey is the quintessential story of courage and heart. Allison’s potent message has reached audiences in more than 75 countries and is a testament to hope, radical compassion, and indestructible perseverance. A top keynote speaker, Allison has been recognized with esteemed speaking engagements internationally. She has been featured on PBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX networks and also stars in the award-winning international documentary, Resolve (2015). Her diverse client list includes: Microsoft, GE Healthcare IT, Intel, MDRT, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Kaiser Permanente, 3M, Lilly, HIMSS/CHIME, Allscripts, Siemens Healthcare, and McKesson.

Allison’s unique history gives her compelling authority to address difficult issues with genuine sensitivity and profound insight. An interdisciplinary artist as well as an entrepreneur, Allison was preparing paintings for an important museum exhibition early in her art career when her world was shattered. Hit head-on at 60mph and trapped inside her car, she nearly lost her life in a fiery and explosive collision. Burned alive, conscious the entire time, Allison suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns on over 50% of her body. Astonishingly, navigating the experience compelled her to discover an unshakeable strength and fortitude—and carefully learn the intricacies of what it takes to overcome adversity and live with heart. Through captivating, hope-filled stories, Allison shares her personal journey and elevates audiences, generating renewed excitement for their life and work. Her unforgettable keynote instills essential tools of self-leadership—teaching how to boldly access grace and resilience and be a dynamic force of goodness in the face of challenges. As Allison states, “We can each make a vigorous, life-changing choice to navigate our way through and beyond adversity and be a force of light for ourselves and others.”

Allison is passionate about tailoring her speech to address the specific issues affecting each market. She takes great care in getting to know her clients—their industry distinction, their mission, and their audience, including the pain points and what they are doing exceptionally well. Her incredible empathy and her capacity to precisely acknowledge and appreciate the work that is done in any organization provides extraordinary support, encouragement, and inspiration to audiences worldwide. Whether she is speaking to leadership teams or to your entire workforce, Allison compassionately highlights each person’s value and demonstrates how their work connects to the overall mission. In Healthcare, for instance, Allison’s groundbreaking program addresses the current challenges faced by the medical industry, including burnout, understaffing, time restraints, employee retention, compassion fatigue and everyday stresses. Audiences experience the far-reaching and vital impact of their work and walk away feeling more connected to their purpose and to each other.

Allison is also 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. She purposefully shares her message of resilience, courage and hope with sincere vulnerability—committed to her desire for no person to feel alone. Prepare to be taken on a journey.

 

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Past Hosts Include:
  • MDRT
  • Teva Pharmaceutical
  • Eli Lilly & Company
  • Siemens Medical
  • GE Healthcare IT
  • McKesson
  • 3M
  • Capital One
  • Microsoft
  • Intel
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You were OUTSTANDING! We have been talking for years and years about the need to address burnout, yet, frustratingly, we did not know what to do and we have never done anything about it. YOU just DID!! Thank you so much!

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The Fire Within℠ — The Art of Bold Self-Leadership

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, ...

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 & Professional Development
  • Establish a Foundation for Wellness & Well-Being
  • Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit

Activating True Resilience — Self-Mastery and The Five Kinds of Courage℠

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 ...

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. 

 

Excellent for Resilience, Inspiration, Mindset, and Empowerment

 

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 & Professional Development
  • Establish a Foundation for Wellness & Well-Being
  • Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit

Be the One℠: Inspire and Retain Your Leaders and Teams through a Heart-Led Culture Shift

Excellent for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment What is the mindset needed to generate an 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 ...

Excellent for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment

What is the mindset needed to generate an 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

Excellent for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment   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 stor ...

Excellent for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment

 

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 highlights 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 tai ...

This groundbreaking and uplifting program can be offered for CME & CEU’s 

 

Allison’s life-changing healthcare keynote highlights 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.

This groundbreaking and uplifting program can be offered for CEU’s, and receives exceptional feedback.

Deliverables For Healthcare: 

  • Navigate Change
  • Successfully and Unify Your Workforce
  • Alleviate Burnout
  • Reclaim Your Passion for a Life’s Work in Healthcare
  • Advance the Company Culture and Build a Happier, More Productive Workplace
  • Activate Self-Leadership: Having Personal Command in All Moments
  • Expand Courage and Unconditional Confidence
  • Master Adversity
  • Encourage, Nourish, and Celebrate Your People
  • Transform Lives—The Art of Person-Centered Care
  • 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 and Person-Centered Care
  • Receive Actionable Tools for Personal Development
  • Enhance Emotional Intelligence
  • Deepen Self-Awareness
  • Clearly Understand the 5 Components of a Resilient Mindset
  • Inspire Patient Safety Through a Critically Acclaimed Survivor Story 
  • Leave a Legacy of Kindness
  • Receive a Balm of Hope, Comfort, and Well-Being
  • Grow a Mindset to be Vibrant, Alive, and in Command of Your Life
  • Energize Compassionate Leadership and Work Culture
  • Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit
  • Generate Heart-Led Teamwork

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Biography

Allison Massari’s work is a celebration of the power of the human spirit. A top keynote speaker on resilience, work culture, retention, self-leadership, creativity, empowerment, change, adversity, and healthcare, Allison’s timeless message of hope, courage and triumph resonates with an audience long after the event has finished.

 

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 inspire your people 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).

 

Allison is also 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 very special journey.