Master Adversity
Triumph Through Change
Live with Heart

Inspirational Keynotes for Businesses, Nonprofits, and Associations

“I watched as the entire room rose to their feet in a standing ovation. Her work is phenomenal, and life altering.”

– Jessica Chapman, Neuroscience Sales Representative, Global Pharmaceutical Company Ranked 119 on Fortune 500

 
 
 

Burn Survivor, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur, Celebrated Artist
 

Content covered in Allison Massari’s Keynote:

  • Triumph Through Change

  • Clearly Understand the 5 Components of a Resilient Mindset

  • Inspire Compassionate Leadership

  • Elevate Heart-led Teamwork

  • Support and Encourage Your People

  • Ignite the Power of the Human Spirit

  • Illuminate the Influence and Gift of Empathy

  • Expand Courage and Unconditional Confidence

  • Amplify Self-Leadership: Having Personal Command in All Moments

  • Advance a Success Mindset

  • Enhance Emotional Intelligence

  • Achieve Peak Success Through Tough Times

  • Establish a Foundation for Wellness and Well-Being and Business Inspiration

  • Reclaim Your Passion for Your Life’s Work

  • Deepen Self-Awareness

  • Master Adversity

  • Grow Impeccable and Inspired Personal and Professional Development

Keynote Length: Up to 60 minutes

WATCH NOW | Mastering the Art of Resilience | 6 Minutes

“Seek out wisdom and abundance will follow you.”
— Allison Massari
 

Testimonials | 4 minutes

The Power of the Human Spirit | 6 Minutes

Secrets to Happiness and Wellbeing | 5 Minutes

The Massari Resilience Mindset℠ | 4 Minutes

The Hero in a Blazing Fire | 5 Minutes

 

Mastering the Art of Resilience | 6 Minutes

The Power of the Mind | 6 Minutes

The Story of the Fire | 5 Minutes

CLIP: The PBS interview by Vince Poscente about her insights on resilience.

Vintage Testimonials | 5.5 minutes
We are all sentimental around here and we just can’t let go of these lovely older testimonials.

Virtual Event Sample | 3 minutes

For virtual events, Allison has a sophisticated studio set up for exquisite sound, video, and seamless delivery. She uses a software program allowing for elegant transitions to video clips, text overlays and artwork. This is a fully produced show holding the audience's attention! Clients are adding on a Q&A at the end of the keynote to utilize her executive coaching skills. People need support now more than ever.

 

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This document has program descriptions for Allison’s Keynotes as well as deliverables for the audience, biography, benefits etc.


 
“What is it we all want? We want to live with passion, focus and clarity. We want success, genuine well-being… inner peace. We want to be powerful in our lives, equipped with the capacity to handle the unexpected, and with the tools to successfully navigate difficult people and challenging circumstances. But it’s more than that – we want to feel like we’ve come alive, that we’re living our mission, walking in the world, vital… I specialize in helping people transform their personal and professional lives, and to feel inspired. You will experience profound results – and a lot of heart. I’m all yours.”
— Allison Massari
 

Industries & Event Types

  • Information Technology

  • Sales

  • Pharmaceutical

  • Human Resources

  • Finance

  • Insurance

  • Non-profits

  • Humanitarian Groups

  • Fundraisers

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Business Inspiration

  • Energy

  • Real Estate

  • Agriculture

  • Manufacturing

  • Associations

  • Leadership Retreat

  • Customer Event

  • Employee Appreciation Event

  • Conferences


“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… the entire room rose to their feet in a standing ovation, 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.”

Jessica Chapman
Neuroscience Sales Representative
Global Pharmaceutical Company
Ranked 119 on Fortune 500

Allison Massari Offers Unparalleled Benefits

Inspiration

Discover how good can prevail in the most difficult situations. Allison has the ability to powerfully capture an audience with her unique story and is an inspiration to anyone facing challenges. In business, feeling inspired truly uplifts individuals and teams to be more present and engaged.

Mastery

Allison’s program offers tools to successfully manage debilitating emotions that inhibit creativity, motivation, and productivity.

Meaning

By underscoring the essential qualities of determination and compassion, participants feel more engaged and passionate about their work, resulting in a healthier, more gratifying work environment.

Happiness

Build a foundation for personal and professional well-being with real solutions to navigate adversity and the everyday challenges of being human.

Productivity

Equipped with tools to handle stress and manage trials more effectively, employee loyalty, ownership, and efficiency can reach new heights of achievement.

Confidence

Participants learn to respond to difficult circumstances, innovate, and constructively engage with co-workers and the world around them.

Ingenuity

Audiences gain a fresh outlook on their job and their lives, invigorating their enthusiasm and imagination, and business inspiration.

Appreciation

Allison speaks brilliantly and generously to each individual’s need for recognition and appreciation.

Transformation

Allison’s program is truly life-altering, and paradigm shifting. The audience will be forever changed

 

Keynote Program

Title Options for Allison’s Keynote (These all work for the same speech):

The Fire Within℠ The Art of Bold Self-Leadership

The Art of Resilience℠ Make Your Life a Masterpiece.

Triumph Through Change℠ The Mindset for Success

The Survival Guide to Being Human℠ and the Art of Happiness

The Mindset for Success℠ Activating True Resilience and Inspiration

Activate Empathy℠ Connect with Customers and Collegaues

Courage and the Mighty Heart℠ The Intersection of Passion and Perseverance

Thriving in Turbulent Times℠ Activating Courage and Confidence to Achieve Heroic Success

Wellness and Well-Being at Work℠ Empowering Employees to Better Manage Their Lives

Self-Mastery℠Burn Bright and Blaze a Trail for Others

The Power of One℠ 


 


“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. This is the type of personal and professional development that I embrace fully and love to teach.”
— Allison Massari

Program Description #1: The Fire Within℠ — The Art of Bold Self-Leadership

In today’s changing world of merging companies, new leadership, digital transformation, hypercompetition and an epidemic of burnout and isolation, Allison Massari brings a fresh and riveting message of hope and possibility to her audiences. 

Launching with a powerful story of triumph after being burned alive in a fire, Allison’s astounding keynote offers life-changing tools to immediately rise above any obstacle and ignite an unquenchable passion, strength, and inspired vitality. 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.


Program Description #2: Activating True Resilience — Self-Mastery and The Five Kinds of Courage℠

(Same keynote with a variation of the description)

What is the mindset needed to be vibrant, alive and in command of your life? What does it look and feel like? At any moment, life can throw turmoil in our direction—uncertainty and unrest from changes at work, the shock of sudden financial loss, an automobile accident, serious illness…What does it take to be ok inside of ourselves and to embody resilience—no matter what?

Allison Massari’s journey, delivered through the art of storytelling reveals that we can discover untold amounts of strength, joy and aliveness when we learn to embrace our challenges rather than resist them. Allison states, “We can each make a vigorous, life-changing choice to navigate our way through and beyond adversity and be a force of light for ourselves and others.”

With vision, clarity, and compassion, Allison teaches audiences the potent life lessons that she learned on each step of her path after she was severely burned in a fire and faced seemingly insurmountable odds. Her riveting keynote boosts confidence and well-being and offers a balm of hope as Allison intimately shares the nuances of how to respond to difficult circumstances and maintain personal command and integrity despite life’s disruptions. With genuine encouragement and support, you’ll receive a new perspective from which to see the world and walk away with effective methods to handle challenges and move towards dreams and goals with courage, purpose, and the strength of an open heart.

“Be vigilant to seek and find the good in every breathing moment. Search with ferocity. Harness an unbending belief. Your struggle and your dedication will sculpt your spirit and bring you to the ultimate destination—your Self-Mastery.”

Allison’s sublime and dynamic artwork serves as a breathtaking backdrop to her inspiring keynotes.

Prepare to be profoundly moved and deeply inspired. Prepare to be taken on a journey.


Program Description #3: Retain Your Workforce Through A Heart-Led Culture Shift

Build a happier, more productive workforce and fully engage the hearts of your people. When people are worn thin and dealing with burnout or fatigue, the first essential solution is to care for them and to show up with thoughtful ideas to innovate, pivot, and excel within a changing world. Through storytelling, Allison Massari teaches audiences the mindset that is needed to successfully manage adversity, build emotional intelligence and have more command in managing difficulties at work. Her transformative program challenges your audience to see struggle and change through a profound and empowering new lens. She explains, “We can each make a vigorous, life-changing choice to navigate our way through and beyond adversity and be a force of light for ourselves and others.” Allison’s 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. After hearing Allison speak, audiences feel more connected to their purpose and to each other—enhancing engagement and advancing employee retention in the workplace. Your people will be forever changed.

During the Q&A, fireside chat style, Allison can help with specific concerns and provide tactical solutions for people to feel empowered through self-leadership, caring for themselves and others in a more profound way, and having more command managing the challenges of work. The adversities and strategies discussed may include: managing difficult customers or colleagues, navigating heightened emotions, tools to deal with weariness, burnout, or loneliness, how to handle negative feelings or people, etc.


 
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“Success takes courage. We excel, both personally and professionally, when we feel an internal fire, when we feel valued in what we do, and when we understand with great clarity the mechanisms inside of ourselves that allow us to successfully manage adversity. These qualities create transformation, vitality, and pinnacle achievements.”
— Allison Massari

Allison’s unforgettable program will equip participants to:

  • Elevate the company culture, and grow a sense of renewed purpose.

  • Empower leadership to support and strengthen your teams and people.

  • Increase inventiveness, resourcefulness, generative capacity and excitement.

  • Learn the 5 components of a healthy, fully functioning resilience mindset.

  • Enhance unity, trust, and belonging in the workplace through a shared mission  and connection to the whole.

  • Promote heart-led leadership, and teamwork.

  • Discover the wellspring for creating a phenomenal work-life.

  • Deepen self-awareness and activate simple concepts that strengthen resilience.

  • Develop and maintain self-leadership: having personal command and integrity in the face of challenges.

  • Grow motivation and confidence through an extraordinary story of overcoming extreme adversity and finding the internal strength for hope to flourish.

  • 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 and maintain business inspiration despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

  • Prioritize building a happier, more productive workforce.


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“…the message sent by neurological, psychological, and organizational research is startling in it’s clarity. Emotional leadership is the spark that ignites a company’s performance, creating a bonfire of success or a landscape of ashes.”
— Harvard Business Review
 
 

Research

Research According to Current Directions in Psychological Science ©Wiley-Blackwell Employees reported that poor mental health affected them in the following areas:

50%

put off challenging tasks

46%

lost patience with customers & clients

41%

felt their ability to make decision was affected

36%

felt they were likely to have conflict with colleagues

Research according to Gallup:

Gallup estimates that actively disengaged employees — the least productive — cost the American economy up to $350 billion per year in lost productivity, including absence, illness and other problems that result when employees are not engaged.
 

Research according to Harvard Business Review:

There is staggering scientific data showing that mastering one’s emotions is directly linked to the bottom line in your business.

Allison Massari Inspirational Videos

New Promo Reel | 6.5 minutes

The Power of the Human Spirit | 6 Minutes

WATCH NOW | Mastering the Art of Resilience | 6 Minutes

Secrets to Happiness and Wellbeing | 5 Minutes

The Hero in a Blazing Fire | 5 Minutes

The Power of the Mind | 6 Minutes

The Massari Resilience Mindset℠ | 4 Minutes

WATCH NOW | The Story of the Fire | 5 Minutes

Testimonials | 4 minutes

Virtual Event Sample | 3 minutes

For virtual events, Allison has a sophisticated studio set up for exquisite sound, video, and seamless delivery. She uses a software program allowing for elegant transitions to video clips, text overlays and artwork. This is a fully produced show holding the audience's attention! Clients are adding on a Q&A at the end of the keynote to utilize her executive coaching skills. People need support now more than ever.

Vintage Testimonials | 5.5 minutes
We are all sentimental around here and we just can’t let go of these lovely older testimonials.

Praise for Allison Massari

“She is, without question, one of the most delightful presenters and personalities we have ever hired. “
“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. 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. ”

Rick Long
Petroleum Equipment Institute
General Manager – Associate General Counsel
PEI Journal Editor in Chief

 

“I can honestly say that after 20+ events in the last 8 years we have never had such a positive reaction from our attendees. Allison has an incredibly intelligent and artistic way of presenting her emotional story.  From the moment she said hello, she had the undivided attention of everyone in the room.”
“Her delivery was exceptional and unlike any I’ve seen before, as she has an amazing ability to appeal to the audience’s multiple senses and emotions.  Would we hire Allison again?  Absolutely!  But I think we’ll have a very hard time finding availability based on the reaction of the meeting planners in our audience that wanted to book her for their upcoming events.”

Kelly Foy
CEO
Elite Meetings International, Inc.

 

“This gal has a message everyone needs to hear! She’s a MUST SEE! : ) Don’t walk, run to her next presentation!”

Brian Garver
VP, Sales and Marketing
KeyBridge Medical Revenue Care

 

“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.”
“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.”

Jennie Pauling
Senior Relationship Manager and Vice President
Wells Fargo Asset Management

 

“As Executive Director I give very few guarantees—I guarantee that you will love Allison Massari.”
“After I had hung up the phone with Allison I was still hanging onto the phone as if I wanted to hold on to her, because that is the way you feel about Allison when you brush up against her. I can tell you that she is just aglow. She is magnificent.”

Katee Tully
Executive Director
The Morean
St. Petersburg, FL

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“…the three-minute standing ovation…”
“What’s the lesson? Plain and simple—it’s the little moments in life that have the greatest impact and you never know what little moment is going to change the world, so you better be prepared for it. …If you had been at Centricity LIVE, you could have seen the three-minute standing ovation that Allison got after her talk yesterday. And you could have seen the customer who came up to me, hugged me, and thanked me for bringing Allison to Centricity LIVE, telling me that Allison’s speech ‘has changed my outlook on life.’ …”

Justin Steinman
Vice President and General Manager
GE Healthcare IT

 

“In a word, astounding! One of the most memorable and impactful keynotes in CIO Forum history.”

Keith Fraidenburg
Vice President, Education & Communications
CHIME/HIMMS Conference

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“When we opened the TEDxZaragoza conference with Allison, it was like dropping a bomb… Her work is so thorough, so careful. Every sentence, every comma, every pause, the pronunciation of every word, are doubly, triply checked and pondered. It is plainly counterintuitive that the result is so incredibly emotional despite this infinite attention to detail. Yet it is. As I later said to her, “It is a great power to be able to make people laugh and cry in only 18 minutes. How does she do it? My guess is that one of the secret ingredients is to tell exactly what you think, to show what you feel… to actually feel it on stage! It is very different from the careful work of an actress, who strives to convince that she feels something which is not there. Allison’s only aim is to accurately and intensely communicate what she actually feels… and the laughs and the tears in the audience confirm that she achieves it remarkably.”

Pablo Echinique
TEDxZaragoza Co-Organizer
Scientific researcher at the Spanish National Research Council
Zaragoza, Spain

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Why Hire Allison?

  • Named a top speaker on the 100 ICONIC Business Speakers list.

  • Voted on the “Best Keynote Speakers” List – M&C Magazine.

  • Vision, clarity, encouragement, and a gift in uplifting audiences and transforming paradigms.

  • Inspires confidence, expands hope, ignites courage, and removes blocks—fostering passion in life and work.

  • Unique history as an internationally successful entrepreneur, burn survivor, brain injury survivor, award-winning artist, and professional coach and consultant.

  • Innovative, perceptive, original, creative, warm and authentic.

  • International TED speaker and Main Platform presenter at Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT).

  • Featured expert in the documentary “ReSolve” (narrated by Scott Neil, Head of Special Forces, US Military, Afghanistan).

  • Takes you on a journey with jaw-dropping stories that are infused with wisdom, boldness, and encouragement—and packed with take-aways.

  • The audience is forever changed.


Stay tuned for a new keynote coming: Master Your Life

This will be an excellent closing speech for the day. This enlightening program will offer audience members tools to immediately and more effectively manage their lives. Delivered with a light, conversational, and humorous tone, this content-rich speech specifically addresses well-being, and personal and professional development, drawing from many of Allison’s key lessons from her coaching practice. Participants can sit back, relax, laugh, learn, and feel supported.
 
Allison will equip participants to:

  • Learn the first thing to do when a crisis hits.

  • Implement two rules for managing personal anger effectively.

  • Acquire a specific tool to shift out of deep loneliness.

  • Differentiate between self-discipline and self-bullying.

  • Successfully move through an embarrassing experience.

  • Embrace and activate ‘unconditional confidence’

  • Gain the tools for creating and utilizing a support system.

  • Take charge of their own well-being and happiness.

  • And so much more…  


Allison Massari delivering her keynote to 8,600 people from 75 countries at Million Dollar Round Table in 2013.

Allison Massari delivering her keynote to 8,600 people from 75 countries at Million Dollar Round Table in 2013.