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Allison Massari

Inspirational TED Speaker | Burn Survivor | Visual Artist

Allison Massari
The Story of the Fire
Tenderhearted and Fierce: The Power of Resilience
Harnessing Peace and Happiness
The Power of the Human Spirit
A Secret to Well-Being and Happiness
Allison
Allison Massari
The Story of the Fire
Tenderhearted and Fierce: The Power of Resilience
Harnessing Peace and Happiness
The Power of the Human Spirit
A Secret to Well-Being and Happiness

Hailed by audiences worldwide as “life-changing”, “riveting”, “extraordinary”, “bold”, and “deeply moving”, Allison Massari’s message of courage, kindness, and resilience resonates with participants long after an event has finished. Listed as one of the Top 10 Best Speakers for “motivation” and “personal development” in the United States by Meetings & Conventions Magazine, Allison has been featured on ABC, NBC and FOX networks. Her diverse client list includes: GE Healthcare IT, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, LPL Financial, PEI (Petroleum Equipment Institute), MDRT – Million Dollar Round Table, Eli Lilly and Co., Allscripts, Fresenius, HIMSS/CHIME, Teva Pharmaceutical, Siemens Medical, CVS Health, Beryl Institute, The Mosaic Company, American Family Insurance Group.

Allison has dedicated her career to catapulting individuals and organizations toward total success, mastery, and fulfillment. As an international keynote speaker, executive coach, and interdisciplinary artist, Allison provides an exceptional blend of business acuity, clarity, creative perspective, and real understanding. Her highly effective methods have enabled her to form bonds as a trusted confidante to CEOs, executives and entrepreneurs. Having triumphed over two traumatic accidents, one where she was severely burned on over 50% of her body, Allison captures the hearts of audiences, demonstrating how to move forward with speed and grace. Prepare to be taken on a journey.

Allison Massari’s programs are packed with content. Blending powerful life lessons with compelling, insightful, and awe-inspiring stories, she offers actionable tools for people to immediately use to transform and manage their lives.

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

  • The Fire Within: The Art of Exceptional Self-Leadership

    Prepare to be taken on a journey. In this moving and thought-provoking keynote, 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, and having suffered severe second and third degree burns on over 50% of her body, Allison reveals her personal journey from absolute loss, to forgiveness and understanding, and finally to a success and life beyond anything she could have imagined. Through the power of storytelling, Allison weaves humor, empathy, and potent life lessons, 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 dynamic and deeply moving speech fortifies audience members with an inspired perspective on life, and applicable tools for managing change and adversity.

    “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 professionally. They are all the same qualities. Science shows us today that the ability to have a sense of well-being, and resilience in the face of challenges, is directly linked to the bottom line of your business. This is the type of personal and professional development that I embrace fully and love to teach.”—Allison Massari

    In this session, Allison will equip participants to:

    • Grow motivation and confidence through an extraordinary story of overcoming extreme adversity and finding the internal strength for hope to flourish.
    • Discover the wellspring for creating a phenomenal life.
    • Promote exceptional customer service and teamwork by learning tonavigate and bring ease to the most challenging situations.
    • Increase inventiveness, resourcefulness, generative capacity and excitement.
    • Learn a simple tool to transform debilitating feelings of defeat, doubt, and sorrow.
    • Work with humor – learn to access humor’s joy and grace, even in moments of heightened stress.
    • Deepen self-awareness and activate simple concepts that strengthen resilience.
    • Inspire team-building through palpable stories of the heroic impact of community.
    • Develop self-mastery – maintain personal command and integrity in the face of feeling attacked, betrayed, hurt or enraged.
    • Witness the powerful results of fierce determination and tenacity in an “impossible situation”.
    • Demystify false concepts that impede well-being.
    • Realize the most effective action to take when addressing the everyday challenges of being human.
    • Learn to build a positive outlook despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

  • Resilience and Reinvention

    What is the mindset we need to have success in this world? What does it look and feel like to be fully alive and in command of your life even in the face of COVID-19? To be ok inside of ourselves no matter what is happening in the world?

    True resilience and success, both personally and professionally, require an intricate understanding of the mechanisms inside ourselves that allow us to navigate adversity. With this knowledge, we can pursue and advance towards our dreams and goals with unwavering courage, purpose, confidence, and the strength of an open heart.

    With mastery, conviction, and powerful storytelling, Allison Massari teaches audiences the potent life lessons that she learned after she was severely burned in a fire and faced seemingly insurmountable odds. Through sharing her story, she provides effective tools to help participants better greet and navigate the everyday challenges of being human, especially during difficult times. Audiences will leave empowered to overcome adversity, sustain hope, and move beyond what seems impossible.

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  • Siemens Healthcare

    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.

  • Wells Fargo Asset Management

    Allison, your incredible message of kindness, forgiveness and love was truly delightful and something I think of frequently.  You have a heart of gold, and the authenticity with which you convey your message is beautiful.  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.  I feel blessed to have been able to hear you and I am GRATEFUL that you decided to share your story.  I can’t wait to see you again! Thank you.

  • College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)

    The presentation you gave at the 2014 CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum yesterday on healthcare was, in a word, astounding! We are still very much basking in the glow of the event, for which we owe you our deepest gratitude for capping off a great day with one of the most memorable and impactful keynotes in CIO Forum history.

    Our group was absolutely riveted to your every word within the first minute of your taking the stage, and you kept them mesmerized for the entire hour. You spoke with such passion, compassion, energy, and charisma and connected with our audience on a deep and truly emotional level. Several of our staff commented at how astonished they were that our group gave you a standing ovation as many on our team have never seen that before. In fact, I can only remember one other time that happened in my 16 years with CHIME, and we have had some really terrific speakers.

  • Petroleum Equipment Institute

    If you are looking for someone with a compelling message of hope, of tenacity and of grace, it is my pleasure to unhesitatingly recommend Allison Massari. Allison delivered the kickoff message at PEI’s annual convention, and her presentation touched many of our attendees at a very deep level. Just as important, our interactions before, during and after the event revealed another reality—Allison truly lives the optimistic messages she shares. She is, without question, one of the most delightful presenters and personalities we have ever hired. She is engaging. She is sincere. She is kind. And she is so easy to work with. My promise: if you bring Allison to your event, you not only will be pleased with the content, you will enjoy the experience every step of the way.

  • 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. 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 reached out and touched hearts when she spoke of the power of nurses to transform a person’s life through empathy and kindness. She showed how to grasp the essence of compassionate care in a way that moved it from abstraction into an actionable quality. She renewed spirits as she spoke of joy and pain, fear and happiness and of resiliency. She validated passion as she spoke of connection with human dignity. She evoked tears of gratitude when she said “thank you” to the audience. Allison became an anam cara, a soul friend, during her time on stage. Thank you friend for sharing your generosity, your insight and your gifts of love.

  • Freeman Health System

    We brought Allison in to help us celebrate and inspire our nursing workforce with our inaugural event in 2016. Simply put, Allison was the perfect choice and delivered the perfect message of inspiration, compassion, love and determination. Allison was more than a speaker we hired, she immediately became a friend we admired. She is a master at her craft, carefully and meticulously tailoring her message with our mission intentionally making every effort to get to know our organization, the people at our event, and engaging at all levels. She connects more with people than any other speaker I have ever seen. She is a genuine success story and her words and kindness permeate through every interaction and she truly has a magical gift to move people. She has earned the accolades and attention she gets as a top 10 speaker, but she also earns your heart as one of the top 10 people you will ever meet. A can’t miss, once in a lifetime presenter.