Corporations
Terry helps teams build resilience, gain confidence, and fuel growth.
In his presentations, Terry covers his personal transformation and successful career as a high tech marketing executive to help business leaders, managers, and individual contributors understand ways to navigate change, learn resilience and renewal, and develop the mindset for success.
"Inspiring! Feeling very uplifted after listening to Terry. Our entire team was excited, engaged, and walked away really happy having Terry as our speaker. Looking forward to ordering Terry’s new book for the team." Kite Pharmaceuticals, a Gilead Company, June 20, 2025
Speaking Topics and Workshops Include
Navigating Disruption in the Workplace with the ReBAR Resilience Framework – Keynote
Terry shares how the resilience catalyst stemming from his life-threatening battle with an aggressive and disfiguring form of cancer became the framework for how he built a successful high-tech sales and marketing leadership career. His ReBAR resilience framework helps individuals and organizations find new methods to build resilience by developing new habits and creating new muscle memory that can change the trajectory of one’s life and career. Audiences learn ways to build a positive mindset personally and practice a growth mindset personally and professionally.
Building Resilience During Change - 2.5 - 4 Hour Workshop
Terry utilizes his ReBAR resilience framework to set the stage for our capacity to build resilience. After clear framing of what individual and organizational resilience is, audiences and teams complete a resilience assessment. Terry discusses findings and resilience gaps in terms of what’s possible, which leads into interactive discussions framed by his ReBAR resilience framework. Audience members will develop game plans and actions to take with them to make progress toward key priorities and objectives.
Navigating Life's Roadblocks and Building Resilience – Keynote
Terry shares survival techniques from his life-threatening battle with an aggressive form of cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference at age twenty-one. He shares how he found a way to harness daily inspirations and transform them into four guiding principles that became a framework for facing adversity and building a resilient and fulfilling life. Terry takes you through his harrowing personal ordeal and what enables him to build a positive mindset and practice a growth mindset. He shares ways to take control, overcome challenges, build trust and teams, face adversity and change, build resilience, and gain confidence.
Workplace Sensitivity: Approaches to Celebrating Visible Differences
Based on personal experience, Terry shares how organizations can create ways to celebrate people with facial differences. Terry discusses methods to embrace those with visible differences, celebrating them for the value they can bring to the workplace, and ultimately help to differentiate your organization for an improved public image and a recruitment and retention advantage in the market.
Resilience Assessment Workshop Testimonial: “As we prepared for a leadership offsite, I wanted someone from outside our organization to share perspective and Terry along with his framework was exactly what we needed. In 3 hours, he surfaced gaps we had not fully addressed, the need for sharper focus, more communication and faster ways to help people move through change, and he gave us the chance to work through them together in real time. Terry has an amazing gift for surfacing what is missing without ever making you feel like you fell short. Grateful for our session and looking forward to doing more together.” Wes Kapsa, Chief Revenue Officer, Wayground.
testimonials
Reviews from Corporations
Never heard something so inspirational!
I spent years in locker rooms with Bill Walsh, Joe Montana, and Ronnie Lott, and I have never heard something so inspirational as your story.
Dwight Clark San Francisco 49ers
Great life lessons.
Inspirational. Thought provoking. Great life lessons to live by.
Kurt Burkhard First Vice President, Morgan Stanley
A powerful reminder that one can grow through adversity
Terry’s message is a powerful reminder that one can grow through adversity. He presents a challenge to the listener that is compelling, and if embraced, has the potential to be life changing. Thank you, Terry, for sharing your journey in such a profound manner, our team left both inspired and empowered to own the change they desire.
Kimberly Popovits Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer & President, Genomic Health, Inc.
Anything is achievable no matter what the adverse conditions are
I saw Terry speak at an event in Bend, Oregon about 6 months ago and I knew he would be the perfect speaker for our annual dealer lunch in Burlingame, CA. Terry and I have known each other for many years, and I was truly inspired listening to his first-hand experience of battling cancer throughout his life. Terry’s story touched each of us at our luncheon for various reasons. The most common theme was that anything is achievable no matter what the adverse conditions are. Terry’s onstage presence was humbling for everyone in the audience. We look forward to having him back in the future.
Grant Riggs President & CEO, Riggs Distributing, Burlingame, CA.
What an inspirational speech!
Thank you, Terry! What an inspirational speech and a great way to kick off a very productive day for our team! We really appreciate the time you spent, and the valuable insights – and look forward to keeping the connection going.
Kim Laughton President, Schwab Charitable
You single handedly have set a bar
I really thought you did an incredible job driving home in such a personal way what The Wellness Community meant to you at our annual Fundraiser event at the Orinda Country Club. I really feel you single handedly have set a bar that will be very difficult if not impossible for us to beat at this fundraiser in years to come!! I really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with the rest of us and at the same time help raise not only awareness but also valuable funds to help keep the program thriving into the future. A leading healthcare services company agreed to another year of sponsorship after hearing your presentation which basically results in about $100,000.00 in related funding for this event next year!
Rick Lyall President, AHM Security, Member, Leadership Council, The Wellness Community.
Your story hit home with everybody.
You are an inspiration to us all.
Bruce Klein Vice President, Federal Sales Organization, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Terry spoke on the afternoon of a two-day meeting and fully captivated the room.
He is a very authentic and engaging speaker. Terry brought us along in his journey. Other than his voice – you could hear a pin drop. Nobody was on their phones or laptops – a true testament to his story and delivery. To say Terry’s story is inspirational is an understatement. What I got out of his session is that we all have that inner strength – we just need to tap into it and have the support of our friends, families and colleagues. Terry also provided his tool kit of what helped him not only survive but thrive. That tool kit is applicable to people’s personal and professional lives – as it centers on trust & teamwork, focus, positive thinking, balance and visualization. His session balanced out an intense meeting and provided a perspective that will help teams focus on what is really important. I highly recommend bringing Terry into speak at a professional or faith-based meeting. Side note – We also purchased books to hand out to the attendees. The book is very well written, inspirational and a quick read.
Christine Pratt Senior Manager, Marketing, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA
Terry is a very skilled speaker and immediately captivated us.
Terry was highly recommended to us when we searched for an inspiring speaker for our recent team offsite, and we quickly determined he would be a great match. Terry is a very skilled speaker and immediately captivated us. He shared very powerful and personal details of his triumph over cancer and gave all of us the means to apply his gained knowledge and perspective to our daily lives. His story resonated with all of us, and we all came away very touched by Terry’s outlook on life. I highly recommend him! I am also reading his book, At Face Value, and am already hooked after just the first few pages.
Angela Moran Communications Manager, Technical Services, Cisco Systems, Inc.
"Terry has an amazing gift"
“I am fascinated by the pace of innovation and change and have great empathy for how apprehensive it can feel to navigate it. As we prepared for a leadership offsite, I wanted someone from outside our organization to share perspective and Terry along with his framework was exactly what we needed. In 3 hours, he surfaced gaps we had not fully addressed, the need for sharper focus, more communication and faster ways to help people move through change, and he gave us the chance to work through them together in real time. Terry has an amazing gift for surfacing what is missing without ever making you feel like you fell short. Grateful for our session and looking forward to doing more together.”
Wes Kapsa Chief Revenue Officer, Wayground
Inspiring!
Inspiring, actionable advice for everyone because inevitably we encounter setbacks in life that require resilience.
Elizabeth Rector Director of Communications Intelligence, Cisco Systems, Inc.
His business experience enabled him to tune his talk to the issues that our sales and marketing organization deals with every day.
Terry’s story was not just an inspirational one, but his business experience and background enabled him to tune his talk to the issues that our sales and marketing organization deals with every day – staying focused, building teams and trust, accepting change, and confronting life’s daily challenges.
