Allison Massari

Iconic Storyteller for Leaders & Changemakers — Celebrated Artist, Burn Survivor, Entrepreneur, Encourager

Allison Massari

Iconic Storyteller for Leaders & Changemakers — Celebrated Artist, Burn Survivor, Entrepreneur, Encourager

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Biography

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. 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 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).

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 journey.

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Speech Topics

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

“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

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

“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 Massari

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 Resilience, Inspiration, Mindset, and Empowerment

Tone: This program is described by clients as "deeply moving,” “profound,” “bold,” “life-changing." It is a riveting program packed with content and takeaways through compelling storytelling.

Be the One℠: Uplift Your Teams — Uplift Your Life

Inspire and retain leaders and teams through a heart-led culture shift. Perfect 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.

Tone: This program is described by clients as “energizing,” “uplifting,” “bold,” “joyous,” “life-giving,” “creative,” “completely unique”

Cultivating Expansive Thinking & Radical Appreciation of Others

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

Tone: This program is described by clients as “energizing,” “uplifting,” “bold,” “joyous,” “life-giving,” “creative,” “completely unique”

Leadership Lessons: Nurturing Organizational Transformation

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.

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.

Deliverables for Leadership Lessons:

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: “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.

Transforming Lives: The Heart and Soul of Health 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

Testimonials

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The BEST keynote we have ever had!”

- 3M (CES Attendees)

“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. As I looked around the room, the audience was overcome with emotion; riveted, gasping in response at times, welling up with tears at others. As Allison closed… when the entire room rose to their feet in a standing ovation, it another first for this group. Allison was able to show up with exactly the message we needed to hear. I watched afterwards as executives came up to her one by one sharing how they had been touched personally. 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."

- 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

"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.”

- Head of Global Accreditation, Siemens