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Allison Massari

Iconic Storytelling for Leaders and Changemakers—Your Audience Will be Forever Changed.

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  • Entrepreneur, Celebrated Artist, Burn Survivor, Encourager
  • Top Speaker on Resilience, Empowerment, Company Culture, Retention, Self-leadership, Change, and Adversity
  • Customization for Healthcare on Person-Centered Care and Burnout—Packed with takeaways
  • A Timeless Message of Hope, Joy, Courage and Triumph—Reaching audiences in more than 75 countries

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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.

Named one of the Top Ten Best Motivational Speakers in North America by Meetings and Conventions Magazine, she 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.

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, inspiring 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 colorful and sublime visual artwork is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida and also 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

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

Launching with a powerful story of triumph after being burned alive in a fire, Allison’s astounding 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 and an epidemic of 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.

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 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.

Retain Your Workforce Through A Heart-Led Culture Shift

Build a happier, more productive workforce and fully engage the hearts of your people. When people are worn thin and dealing with burnout or fatigue, the first essential solution is to care for them and to show up with thoughtful ideas to innovate, pivot, and excel within a changing world. Through storytelling, Allison Massari teaches audiences the mindset that is needed to successfully manage adversity, build emotional intelligence and have more command in managing difficulties at work. Her transformative program challenges your audience to see struggle and change through a profound and empowering new lens. She explains, “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’s 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. After hearing Allison speak, audiences feel more connected to their purpose and to each other—enhancing engagement and advancing employee retention in the workplace. Your people will be forever changed.

Leadership Lessons: Courage and the Mighty Heart℠ —Nurturing Organizational Transformation

In today’s shifting workforce, the role of leaders has changed dramatically. Employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention are top priority, along with the consistent strain from regulatory pressures, board and stakeholder demands, and needing to do more with less. Additionally, leaders are asked to assume the role of coach, mentor, friend, motivator, and career counselor while simultaneously maintaining an executive presence with clear vision and direction. With keen insight and appreciation for the challenges faced by leaders today, Allison teaches the mindset to successfully manage adversity and lead with heart—while addressing the personal side of their leadership and the everyday challenges of being human. This dynamic and poignant program provides innovative leadership lessons that invigorate and fortify participants to be able to tackle their work with newfound vigor and expansive thinking.

Customization for Healthcare: “You are the Medicine℠”

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.

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

“The power of what you do goes far beyond the technical part of your job. You are healing the places medicine cannot touch. In fact, YOU are the medicine.” —Allison Massari

Deliverables in Each of Allison’s Healthcare Keynotes:

  • 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
  • Inspire Compassionate Leadership and Work Culture
  • Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit
  • Generate Heart-Led Teamwork
BE THE ONE℠: INSPIRE AND RETAIN LEADERS AND TEAMS THROUGH A HEART-LED CULTURE SHIFT

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. See life and work from a completely new and exciting lens. Prepare to be taken on a very special journey.

 

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

 

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
EXPANSIVE THINKING AND RADICAL APPRECIATION OF OTHERS

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 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 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
Capital One
"Your bravery is astounding. You are completely AMAZING!! Absolutely inspiring. Very powerful!! 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.”
Microsoft
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!
Eli Lilly and Company
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.
American Bankers Association
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.
Wells Fargo Asset Management
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.
Global Investment Firm Ranked 57 on the Fortune 500
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.
McKesson
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!
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
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. Thank you, friend, for sharing your generosity, your insight and your gifts of love.
Siemens
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. I never got tired of listening to her.
Florida Realtors
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. 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.
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