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Allison Massari's speaking fee falls within range: $20,000 to $25,000
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.
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.
People often believe that resilience is just about grit and determination, but that is how you burn out. In Allison Massari’s powerful and life-changing “Fire Within” Keynote, you will receive a new perspective from which to see the world and effective methods to handle challenges and move towards your dreams and goals with courage, purpose, and the strength of an open heart. Allison 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.” - Triumph Through Change - Inspire Compassionate Leadership - Unify Your Workforce - Establish a Foundation for Wellness and Well-Being - Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit Excellent for Resilience, Inspiration, Mindset, and Empowerment.
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 epic and game-changing “Be The One” keynote propels you to experience personal command and enthusiasm—providing tools to energize and activate total aliveness.
Through unforgettable, hope-filled stories, you will experience a boundless and buoyant readiness to see the world with new eyes and learn the incomparable art of expressing your appreciation for those around you—radically enhancing your work culture and well-being. 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.
Allison Massari knows that you have the power to transform lives. With her unique history—as a burn survivor and the daughter of a doctor and a nurse—Allison has an intimate understanding of the demands and challenges of the medical profession. With compassion and deep insight, Allison brings her compelling authority to address the current needs of the healthcare industry to this powerful and poignant customized keynote. With her sublime and colorful artwork as a backdrop, Allison shines light on the integral nature of person-centered care and the immense value each healthcare professional has on a patient who is suffering—including those who do not have direct patient contact. She explains, "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." This groundbreaking and uplifting program can be offered for CEU’s and CME’s. Prepare to be taken on a journey.
Allison Massari teaches her listeners to find peace, purpose, and happiness, and gives them the tools they need to rise above any obstacle. As the survivor of two life-threatening car accidents, suffering severe burns and a traumatic head injury, she exposes her personal journey from absolute loss, to forgiveness and understanding, and finally to success and a life beyond anything she could have imagined.
Through the power of storytelling, Allison weaves humor, surprise, and heart-wrenching experiences, allowing the audience to study what she learned on each step of her path. You will hear and understand the answers to some of life’s biggest questions. This content-rich and deeply moving speech fortifies audience members with a new vision and applicable tools for managing change and adversity.
THE FIRE WITHIN℠ — ACTIVATING TRUE RESILIENCE
**Excellent for Resilience, Inspiration, Mindset, and Empowerment
A Timeless Message of Hope, Joy, Courage and Triumph—Your Audience Will be Forever Changed.
Launching with a powerful story of triumph after being burned alive in a fire, Allison Massari’s astounding keynote offers life-changing tools to immediately rise above any obstacle and ignite an unquenchable passion and inspired vitality. Through storytelling and using creative, fresh concepts, Allison teaches unforgettable secrets to achieving a resilience mindset. She states, “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.” With genuine encouragement and support Allison intimately shares the nuances of how to respond to change and difficult circumstances with courage, purpose, and the strength of an open heart. This transformational keynote celebrates the power of taking personal responsibility, elevates confidence and well-being, and reconnects audiences to a sense of true purpose and fulfillment in their work. Your people will be forever changed.
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
Tone: This program is described by clients as "deeply moving” “profound” “bold” “empowering” “life-changing." It is a riveting program packed with content and takeaways through compelling storytelling.
BE THE ONE℠: EXPANSIVE THINKING AND RADICAL APPRECIATION OF OTHERS
**Excellent for Work Culture, Self-Leadership, Resilience, Mindset, Burnout, Retention and Empowerment
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 appreciating 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
Tone: This program is described by clients as “energizing” “uplifting” “bold” “joyous” “life-giving,” “creative” “completely unique.”
FOR HEALTHCARE: TRANSFORMING LIVES: THE HEART AND SOUL OF HEALTH CARE
**This groundbreaking and uplifting program can be offered for CEU’s and CME.
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, Software Developers, 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. As Allison states: “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’s unique history offers an unprecedented perspective on the demands and challenges of the medical profession. Raised by her father, a doctor, and her mother, a nurse, Allison was mentored in the world of medicine from an early age. She has a unique ability to support her healthcare clients with employee retention, time restraints, alleviating burnout, and everyday stresses—and consistently receives exceptional praise from her clients.
Deliverables For Healthcare: - Navigate Change Successfully and Unify Your Workforce - Alleviate Burnout—Reclaim Your Passion for a Life’s Work in Healthcare - Activate Self-Leadership: Having Personal Command in All Moments - Expand Courage and Unconditional Confidence - Encourage, Nourish, and Celebrate Your People - 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 - Inspire Patient Safety Through a Critically Acclaimed Survivor Story - Receive a Balm of Hope, Comfort, and Well-Being - Energize Compassionate Leadership and Work Culture
SPEAKING.COM: Can you tell us about any particularly memorable speaking engagements / unusual situations that arose while on the road?
MASSARI: My career as a speaker has given me some of the most enriching and awe-inspiring moments that I’ve had in my life.
The first one that comes to mind is when I spoke on the main stage at the Million Dollar Round Table. It was a profound and humbling experience to be in front of so many people from around the world (8,600 people from 75 countries). They had more translators at that event than they do at the United Nations.
Afterwards, I went backstage to thank the interpreters for sharing my message in all of their native languages. I was eager to show my gratitude. I knew how hard they must have worked, and they had given me such a gift – because of them, my message reached so many countries in a single day. I excitedly entered each country’s sound-proof booth, ready to give each interpreter a big hug, and to my surprise they were jumping up to hug me. In every single booth they greeted me so lovingly, and they were so grateful for my message. It was very emotional for all of us. As I went from booth to booth – from Thailand, to Japan, to Italy, to Germany, to Indonesia, to India, and on and on – I felt an immediate bond with each of them, an instant friendship. Jamaica to my left, Israel to my right – it felt like such a small world – and a world of the sweetest friendships and deepest connections. I will never forget that day as long as I live.
Another spectacular experience was speaking for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. It was such an alive audience – can you imagine 8,000 critical care nurses all in one room!? There was so much heart in that audience – it was palpable! They were so responsive to every story – so much laughter, so many sighs, such delight. Here I was, coming to love them, to give back to them – and they ended up giving me so very much more. I am still smiling.
As I am reflecting on many of these sweet memories, I am seeing that what has made every event so poignant and memorable is the love and kindness of people. It is always the light of the human spirit that makes everything come alive.
SPEAKING.COM: How do you keep your audience engaged and actively listening during your keynotes?
MASSARI: I believe wholeheartedly in the power of a compelling and well-told story. If you want people to internalize a message, to experience a real change, you have to sweep them away with a story. It has to touch each person’s heart, their mind, to create images, to move them emotionally, to captivate them.
The stories I share are about courage, and about taking personal responsibility for your life. They are an extremely candid sharing of my own dramatic journey. Every single story has layers of take-aways and through them, I reveal answers to some of life’s most difficult questions: How do you truly deal with extreme adversity? How do you adapt when the challenges seem to come non-stop? Is it possible to understand that very difficult person? Is there a purpose to suffering? What does it take to be ok in this world and to thrive?
Even though my story is unique and personal, the nuggets of wisdom that I share are incredibly relatable to everyone. They provide vital and immediately actionable tools to handle a difficult situation, cope with adversity, to feel encouraged, supported, and motivated.
SPEAKING.COM: What type of client would most benefit from your message?
MASSARI: My message is universal. It’s a celebration of the incredible power, resilience and courage of the human spirit. My keynote is ideal for clients who are invested in the well-being of their leadership teams, employees, and customers, and who want to help revive and restore passion, as well as inspire personal and professional growth.
I’ve had wonderful feedback from larger organizations including GE Healthcare, SAS, and Siemens, as well as from smaller events like leadership retreats and hospital association conferences. I speak to every industry including Healthcare, Finance, Insurance, Sales, IT, Real Estate, Energy, Agriculture, and Non-profits.
I love to come and deliver my speech when a group is undergoing big changes, or is having to manage a very high stress environment, or are dealing with burnout. My commitment is to deliver a grounded message of true hope and to ultimately elevate an audience in a lasting way.
SPEAKING.COM: What inspired you to start doing speaking engagements?
MASSARI: It was a desire to help people, for no person to feel alone, and to let people know what is possible.
Prior to becoming a speaker I was a full-time artist – making paintings, sculptures, and mixed media work. Even as an artist, my passion was always to touch people in a meaningful way, and create an impact. I wanted to find the common thread that unites us as humans, and to honestly share my own vulnerability in order for the viewer to feel seen.
After my accidents, and after working for so many years on my own healing, I woke up one day with an intense desire to share what I had learned. It was like a fire within. I had learned how to navigate my way out of pain, I had learned to overcome challenges, to find my way to a life that is beautiful. I knew in my bones that it was time to share with others, everything that I’d learned about life, to offer this incredible message of hope.
That’s when the spoken word became a new art medium for me. I have completely devoted myself to the art of speaking. I’m very aware of the way the sound of my voice and the cadence of my words and pauses land on the audience. When I speak on stage I think of that same sensitivity and awareness of how a brushstroke lands on a canvas.
A beautifully crafted speech has the power to change someone’s world. It can shift their entire paradigm. The greatest gift for me is when I get emails years later from people who explain how they still think about my speech every day, or that it changed the way they see their life, or that they still use the tools at their work that I shared. These emails are incredibly moving for me. They fuel my devotion to keep growing and improving my craft as a speaker.
Now everything has come full circle. My visual artwork is now an integral part of my speaking. My entire keynote has a PowerPoint with my artwork as the backdrop. Each image has been chosen to match the feelings of the particular story I am telling, enveloping the audience in a very full and unique visual, sensory, and oratory experience. I want to sweep them away, to lift them up, to encourage hope, and to create a shift in thinking so that they can view their lives from new coordinates. This is the heart of my mission and my passion. I give them my whole self.
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“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.” —Jennie Pauling, 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
“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. Such was the case in San Diego at NTI when Allison Massari commanded the stage. Her masterful storytelling rendered a magical state as she shared her inspirational and motivational exploration of the challenges of being human as seen through a lens of tragedy. Allison became an ‘anam cara’, a soul friend, during her time on stage. The kind of friend who awakens your life and sets free the possibilities that exist within you. The kind of friend that encourages you to look and see and understand things differently. The kind of friend who refines your sensibilities and transforms your way of being in the world. Thank you friend for sharing your generosity, your insight and your gifts of love.” —Teri Lynn Kiss, RN, President, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
“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.” —Farogh Nazari, Head of Global Accreditation, Siemens
“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. Heard nothing but rave reviews as folks were leaving the event. 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.” —Sev Scaglia, Writer/Producer/Director, Florida Realtors Association
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IGNITED: Learn the Secrets of Transformation from an Artist, Burned Alive, Who Went on to Create a Life She Never Dreamed Possible Allison Massari teaches how to create your own transformation. Ignited is a gripping story of burning flesh, searing pain and relentless challenges that offers redemptive tools which will allow anyone to obtain life’s abundant gifts. Massari provides precise reasoning about how to understand and use suffering to shift to higher levels of awareness, and ultimately a place of peace. Whether you are concerned about personal growth, relationships, work or your past, this audio set can help.
Ignited provides details about how to understand and unravel the complexities of challenges, difficult people and painful moments, as well as how to go beyond to all the gifts awaiting you. Ignited does not embrace magical thinking. Massari empathetically proposes a method for acknowledging difficulty in life in order to learn and make shifts that last, thus moving you forward into a peaceful, grounded life. She advocates acknowledgment of the intricacies of pain and challenge, and shows how love is the salve that ignites the normal and propels it into the miraculous.
You will learn: 1) How to understand the big question: “Why are we living in a world with so much pain?” 2) How to create a complete shift in attitude that will instantly change your reality 3) How to move out of inertia and create against-all-odds outcomes 4) What not to say to someone who is suffering. And a guide to also show what to do and say 5) How to successfully deal with difficult people 6) How humanity, authenticity and connecting to purpose become the fast path to transformation 7) The Seven Healing PatternsTM 8) How life is a school…
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