Allison Massari

Featured Speaker

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

Allison Massari Fee Range
$20,001 to $50,000
(Inquire for virtual fee)

Travels From
California, United States

Allison Massari Speaker Biography

Top Expert on Resilience, Change, Company Culture, Retention, Adversity, Self-Leadership, Empowerment and Healthcare

Allison Massari, hailed as delivering “life-changing” and “riveting” presentations, is an unforgettable resilience speaker. Her keynotes uplift and energize teams and leaders while alleviating burnout and fostering empathy, creativity, and empowerment. Collaborating with Allison cultivates inner strength and professional enthusiasm, which transforms work culture and attracts and retains top talent. Her powerful message has resonated with audiences in over 75 countries, a testament to hope, relentless perseverance, and profound compassion. Notably, Allison has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Best Motivational Speakers in North America by Meetings and Conventions Magazine and has been featured on major networks like PBS, ABC, FOX, and NBC.

Clients

Allison’s diverse client portfolio includes prominent organizations across various sectors. These include technology giants like Microsoft and Intel, healthcare leaders such as GE Healthcare IT, Lilly, Siemens Healthcare, and McKesson, and financial institutions like 3M, MDRT, Capital One, and Wells Fargo. Her ability to connect with and inspire such a wide range of clients underscores her effectiveness as a resilience speaker.

Triumph Through Change

As an international keynote speaker, successful entrepreneur, and award-winning visual artist, Allison has carved her path with creativity, tenacity, and profound gratitude. A masterful storyteller with a compelling personal history, Allison remarkably survived two devastating and near-fatal car accidents. In one horrific incident, she was trapped inside her car, enduring severe burns on over 50% of her body. Astonishingly, navigating these unimaginable experiences propelled her to discover an unshakeable inner strength and ultimately cultivate an even deeper passion for her life and work. With profound compassion and insightful wisdom, Allison eloquently shares the essential elements required to overcome adversity, access grace and resilience, and live with genuine heart, solidifying her impact as a resilience speaker.

Uplifting Teams—Uplifting YOU

“My work is a celebration of the power of the human spirit,” Allison states. “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’s groundbreaking and timeless keynotes impart the essential mindset for successfully developing personal command and self-leadership. Consequently, she inspires individuals to view struggle and change through a profoundly empowering and transformative new lens. Her keynotes are consistently described as deeply inspirational and profoundly impactful, leaving a lasting impression on her audiences. Her ability to connect with audiences on an emotional level makes her a highly effective resilience speaker.

Transforming Lives

Allison dedicates significant effort to understanding her clients, including their industry distinctions, their core mission, and their people. Her unique personal history enhances her ability to address sensitive and important subjects without alienating individuals, a particularly valuable asset for healthcare clients. Raised by her father, a doctor, and her mother, a nurse, Allison received early and comprehensive mentorship in the world of medicine. This upbringing, combined with the extensive time she spent in hospitals and medical facilities during her recovery, has established Allison as a leading voice and educator on person-centered care. Consistently praised for her ability to support her healthcare clients with employee retention, time constraints, burnout reduction, and everyday stress management, her customized healthcare keynotes often provide Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education Units (CEU). Her deep understanding of the healthcare environment further strengthens her message as a resilience speaker within that industry.

Celebrated Artist – Entrepreneurial Spirit

With the heart of a dedicated artist, the sharp vision of a successful entrepreneur, and a proven knack for achievement, Allison has successfully built four thriving businesses over the past 30 years. She began her entrepreneurial journey as a visual artist with a robust fine arts business and a successful jewelry line. Among her artistic accolades were significant art commissions for Fortune 500 companies, including Lockheed Martin, General Mills, and US Airways. Her artwork has been sought after by museums and private art collectors internationally and is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. Allison’s vibrant and sublime visual art serves as a breathtaking and inspiring backdrop to all of her powerful keynotes, creating a truly unique and memorable experience for her audiences. Her artistic background adds another dimension to her powerful message as a resilience speaker.

Allison Massari Speaking Topics

THE FIRE WITHIN℠ THE ART OF BOLD SELF-LEADERSHIP: A Timeless Message of Hope, Joy, Courage and Triumph—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.

ACTIVATING TRUE RESILIENCE — SELF-MASTERY AND THE FIVE KINDS OF COURAGE℠: Described by clients as "deeply moving,” “profound,” “bold,” “life-changing"

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.

BE THE ONE℠: UPLIFT YOUR TEAMS—UPLIFT YOUR LIFE: 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. 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. Perfect for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment.

CULTIVATING EXPANSIVE THINKING AND 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. Described by clients as “energizing,” “uplifting,” “bold,” “joyous,” “life-giving,” “creative,” “completely unique”—your people will be forever changed.

LEADERSHIP LESSONS: NURTURING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION—Inspire Radiant Leadership and Teamwork

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.

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.

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Allison Massari Speaker 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.”

- Capitol 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 |

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