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 Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Change, Company Culture, Retention, Adversity, Self-Leadership, Empowerment and Healthcare

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.

Clients

Her diverse client list includes: Microsoft, 3M, GE Healthcare IT, Intel, MDRT, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Lilly, Allscripts, Siemens Healthcare, and McKesson.

Triumph Through Change

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. With compassion and deep insight, Allison shares the intricacies of what it takes to overcome adversity, access grace and resilience and live with heart.

Uplifting Teams—Uplifting YOU

“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

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. Her keynotes are jaw-dropping, heartfelt, and deeply inspirational. Your audience will be forever changed.

Transforming Lives

She takes great care in getting to know her clients—their industry distinction, their mission, and their people. Her unique personal history strengthens her ability to address important and sensitive subjects without alienating individuals—a particular asset for Healthcare clients. Raised by her father, a doctor, and her mother, a nurse, Allison was mentored in the world of medicine from an early age. This upbringing, along with the extensive time she spent in hospitals and medical facilities recovering from her accidents, has made Allison a leading voice and educator on person-centered care. Consistently praised for her ability to support her healthcare clients with employee retention, time restraints, alleviating burnout and everyday stresses, her customized healthcare keynote provides Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Education Units (CEU).

Celebrated Artist – Entrepreneurial Spirit

With the heart of an artist, the keen vision of an entrepreneur, and a knack for success, Allison has built four thriving businesses in the past 30+ years. She began as a visual artist with a robust fine arts business and jewelry line. Among her accolades were art commissions for Fortune 500 companies including Lockheed Martin, General Mills and US Airways. 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.

Allison’s colorful and sublime visual art serves as a breathtaking backdrop to all of her keynotes. Prepare to be taken on a very special journey.

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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