ALLISON MASSARI: Employee Retention KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

A Keynote for Your Leadership or Adapted for Your Entire Organization

Learn the Incomparable Art of Expressing Your Appreciation for Those Around You

According to recent studies, recognition and appreciation are more important for employee engagement and retention than pay, benefits, time off, training, or celebrations.

Deliverables in Allison Massari’s Retention Keynote:

• Unify Your Workforce through a Heart-Led Culture Shift

• Inspire Radiant Leadership and Energize Teamwork

• Discover How to Access the Energy Needed to Lead with Empathy

• Learn the Incomparable Art of Expressing Your Appreciation for Those Around You

• Encourage and Nourish Your People

• Increase Employee Retention

• Receive an Evergreen Solution to Empower your Leadership

• Fully Engage the Hearts of Your People

• Expand Courage and Unconditional Confidence

• Increase Trust, Care, and Presence within Your Teams

• Gain Tools to Build Authentic Relationships and Loyalty

• Radically Elevate Company Culture 

• Grow the Skill to Foster New, Untapped Talents Within Each Person

• Light Up with Curiosity about Yourself and Those Around You

• Receive Unexpected & Transformative Solutions for Resilience and Burnout

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

• Transcend Limits—Expand Your Thinking, Expand Your Vision

• Triumph Through Change

• Activate a Buoyant Aliveness and Inner Vitality for your Work and Life

• See the World with New Eyes

“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!”

“Our absolute best speaker EVER!

Jean A. Reinert, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Director | Education & Training
Cone Health

“How can I put the reaction into words? I guess you can take the word “amazing” and speak it in all 6,500 languages on planet earth. That would come close to describing how perfectly Allison Massari fit our event.”

Christine Kautz
Patient Engagement
Cadence Health—Fierce Healthcare

A fantastic work culture is vital to company growth and productivity—and employee retention secures that success. In today’s hyper evolving business environment, developing and maintaining dedicated leadership that can build an inspired work culture and attract and retain top talent are dominant priorities among business leaders worldwide.

Allison Massari’s riveting and timely employee retention keynote transforms company culture by elevating self-leadership, cultivating empathy and radical appreciation for others—and reconnecting audiences to a sense of passion and fulfillment in their work. Hiring Allison is a signal to your leaders and teams that you celebrate your people, and that you are investing in and genuinely caring for each of them personally and professionally.

The storm of issues that employee attrition generates means that retaining valuable, talented workers is a “business imperative for leaders at all levels.” The cost of losing employees includes:

• Financial loss—it costs businesses an additional 50%-200% of 1 years salary to replace one employee

• Deteriorating company culture—morale is severely impacted by employee departures

• Disrupted productivity and efficiency 

• Persistent turnover—1 out of 3 new employees will quit their jobs in the first year (most within the first 6 months)

A recent global survey by management consultancy company, McKinsey, found the main reasons that employees leave their jobs are:

• Uncaring and uninspiring leaders – 34% 

• Lack of meaningful work – 31% 

• A lack of career development opportunities and room for career growth – 41% 

• Inadequate total compensation – 36% 

Additionally, one third of workers were considering changing companies due to their mental health and well-being.

Since company culture and leadership play such an obvious and definitive role in employee burnout and turnover, finding ways to value, inspire, and unite your workforce has never been more important.

Program Descriptions:

Be the One℠: 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 our 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 and clients? 

Allison Massari shows “There is a way to experience our life and our work that feels transcendent.”

In her new, enthralling keynote, acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur and visual artist, Allison Massari, teaches how developing expansive thinking, self-leadership, and joyful appreciation of others unleashes an inner strength and professional enthusiasm that radically elevates company culture, increases retention, and quite simply - makes our own life better.  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.”

This timely and visionary keynote is packed with content and original concepts that provide specific methods to uplift and transform your workplace. Allison’s compelling history gives her unique authority to share what it takes to persevere and transcend life’s difficulties. Audiences are transported by her extraordinary personal stories of art, Vivaldi, Mozart, Austria and so much more—filled with fresh metaphors and insight. Energized with renewed passion for work and a sense of unity and empowerment, you will walk away feeling revitalized, refreshed, and seeing life and work from new coordinates

We can see the world with new eyes. Prepare to be taken on a very special journey.

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. Your people will be forever changed.

Optional Q&A

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Allison’s Employee Retention Keynote

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

Tone: This program is described by Allison’s clients as "energizing” “brilliant” “completely unique” “life-changing."

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Meet Allison

As a celebrated employee retention keynote speaker, Allison Massari has an exceptional ability to seek, see, and enthusiastically express her appreciation for people and communicate what it means to lead with empathy. Her riveting program offers real and immediate solutions to everyday challenges, and supports people in feeling their own sense of purpose, value, and impact in their job. Her story reminds audiences of the importance of bringing kindness to their day-to-day, and moment-by-moment work and life. Whether you bring her to speak to your leaders or your entire internal workforce, Allison’s heartfelt wisdom elevates audiences to a new vision, strengthening employee retention.

A fiery voice for the potent power of courage, kindness, and indestructible perseverance, Allison was recently named on the 2022 “Top 100 Iconic Business Speakers” List and has been featured on multiple media outlets including ABC News, PBS, FOX, and NBC. Her resonant, timely, and global message of hope and resilience has been enthusiastically received by audiences worldwide, with esteemed speaking engagements at TEDxZaragoza in Spain, speaking on “The Future of Happiness” and on the main platform at the Million Dollar Round Table Conference with an audience of 8,600 from 75 countries. Allison has been repeatedly named one of the Top Ten Best Motivational Speakers by Meetings and Conventions magazine.

Through storytelling, Allison takes her audience on a journey full of insight, compassion, and hope. Her incredible history—having suffered two traumatic and nearly fatal car accidents, one where she endured severe burns on over 50% of her body—showed her the inner drive and courage it takes to rise above extreme hardship. This has also given her the unique authority and wisdom to speak to the problems that cause employee burnout and fatigue. Allison’s instinctive passion for seeing the unique gifts in others and calling them out is contagious for the audience. Her program re-directs focus towards promoting a sense of care, feeling connected, seen, and valued, and making an impact in the world—qualities that support employee retention.

In Allison’s words: “When we learn to support our people verbally with encouragement, and also provide them with resources, thoughtful policy, tools and technology that work, and the autonomy to do their job—meaning, the flexibility to do what is right and to do their job without obstruction—it creates a work environment where people want to stay. The result is work that is fulfilling, inclusive, and productive.”

The backdrop of Allison’s breathtaking keynote displays images of her stirring and stunning artwork that are in the permanent collection of the Vatican and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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. In business, inspiration truly uplifts your teams to be more present and engaged.

Mastery

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

Meaning

By underscoring the impact that one person can have, participants feel more engaged and passionate about their work, and grow their sense of ownership and determination, resulting in a healthier, more gratifying work environment.

Happiness

Receive real solutions for navigating adversity, reducing stress and feeling more equipped to face life’s challenges.

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.

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

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

Research shows that the following top components support employee retention. Allison’s keynote plants the seeds for celebrating this kind of empathy in the workplace.

1. Advancing the Company Culture Through Self-Awareness, Fostering Empathy and Building Emotional Intelligence

2. Inspiring Heart-Led Leadership

3. Unifying Teams Through a Shared Mission and Connection to the Whole 

4. Appreciating Unique Talents, Gifts, and Integrity

5. Showing How Individual Roles Connect with the Company’s Purpose & Goals

6. Recognizing Achievements & Demonstrated Value of Employees

7. Providing Transparent & Honest Communication

8. Celebrating Wins

9. Empowering Leadership to Support and Elevate Your Teams and People

10. Valuing a Happier, more Productive Workforce

11. Offering Flexibility for Individuals to Do Their Job Without Obstructions

12. Engaging and Encouraging Creativity and New Ideas

Excellent for Events that Give Back and Appreciate Your Workforce and Leaders

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More Praise for Allison Massari

“Allison Massari changed my life! The very first time I heard her, I was mesmerized. She helped me see how precious life and relationships are. I’ve seen her a few more times since then, because I would never miss an opportunity to hear her. Every single time, I am moved to tears and re-energized to be a better version of myself. This is not an overstatement. I have watched her move thousands of people and she is just as genuine of a person off stage as she is on.”

Tracy Kasper
President
National Association of Realtors

 "Thank you for an amazing presentation! I feel completely energized to go back to my work and implement everything you taught us!" "This session was incredible Allison! You left fingerprints on my heart and mind.” “I attended a number of incredible presentations but yours spoke to my soul.”

WorkHuman—Audience Reactions

“A BRILLIANT presentation. Incredibly powerful.”

ThinkTankMedia—Australia

 “You should know, I continue to hear such amazing comments from attendees who had the chance to hear you. They are downright ebullient! Wherever your travels find you this evening my wish for you is that you are conscious of the tremendous impact you made on so many people today. You became a blessing, yet again, to those around you. Their appreciation has been shared with me and my team all day long.”

Larry Kaufman
President & CEO
Yankee Alliance

"You could hear a pin drop in the room. She was amazing! So inspiring. I laughed, I cried. She made me feel like a million dollars. I am amazed and awed by her sense of hope and resilience.”

Deborah A Smith RN, BSN 
Patient Experience Specialist 
Chairperson, Baystate Health Patient Experience Conference Planning Committee 
Independent Evaluations
Baystate Health

“Needless to say, she was amazing! The entire group loved her and just had the most wonderful things to say about her presentation, and her as a person – there is something so special about her spirit. ….She hit the ball out of park.”

Kate Zaparanuik
Director, Global Communications
RLDatix Software Solutions

“In short, you killed it. Your presentation was expertly tailored to xMatters’ current circumstances, spoke to themes of great value to our employees and customers in this time, and extended to highly personalized content. We are thrilled to know you and count you among our preferred speaker roster.

Kari Milone
Legal Counsel
xMatters

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Industries and Event Types for Allison’s Keynote:

Allison expertly adapts her message to each industry and speaks to a diverse range of audiences. She will be delighted to speak with your leadership team on how to specifically connect with your group, align with your mission, and also support your vision and goals for your conference.

References

1) According to a study by McKinsey, the top reasons employees quit are:

• A lack of career development opportunities and room for career growth – 41%

• Inadequate total compensation – 36%

• Uncaring and uninspiring leaders – 34%

• Lack of meaningful work – 31%

Farrugia, JD, (2022), 7 statistics on employee turnover in 2022 every HR manager should be aware of, Workforce.com, accessed 26 October, 2022 https://workforce.com/news/7-statistics-on-employee-turnover-in-2022-every-hr-manager-should-be-aware-of

2) According to Gallup, replacing a full-time employee can cost anywhere between half to two times the amount of that employee’s annual salary.

Farrugia, JD, (2022), 7 statistics on employee turnover in 2022 every HR manager should be aware of, Workforce.com, accessed 26 October, 2022 https://workforce.com/news/7-statistics-on-employee-turnover-in-2022-every-hr-manager-should-be-aware-of

3) Over one-third of newly hired employees quit within their first year.

Work Institute, (2022), accessed 16, November, 2022 https://workinstitute.com/problems-we-solve/first-year-turnover

4) A third of workers – managers and non-managers alike – said in the survey that they were considering changing companies for the sake of their mental health.

Henry, Patrick (2021), Explainer: What’s driving ‘the Great Resignation’?, World Economic Forum, accessed 26 October, 2022 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/great-resignation-career-change-mental-health-covid

5) Employee engagement is a business imperative for leaders at all levels—above all, the CEO—and no longer something to be measured just once a year by taking a look in the rear-view mirror.

Gosling, Will & Sloan, Nathan, (2016), “Engagement—Always On”, Deloitte, accessed 26 October, 2022, https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/human-capital-trends/2016/employee-engagement-and-retention.html

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