Biography
A survivor of a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference, Terry Healey is an author, keynote speaker, and business strategist. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a thirty-five-year career as a marketing executive, Terry challenges audiences to face adversity and change, and apply his ReBAR resilience framework and principles to gain confidence, build resilience, and find greater purpose and joy in their personal and professional lives. Terry lives in Santa Cruz, CA with his wife Sue. For more information visit www.terryhealey.com
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A survivor of a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference, Terry Healey is an author, keynote speaker, and business strategist. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a thirty-five-year career as a marketing executive, Terry challenges audiences to face adversity and change, and apply his framework and principles to gain confidence, build resilience, and find joy in their personal and professional lives.
His work has appeared in the following publications: CEO World Magazine, Newsweek, Fast Company, Huffington Post, The American, Authority Magazine, Training Industry Magazine, Psychology Today, Metro UK, The San Francisco Chronicle, Guideposts, NurseWeek, U.S. News and World Report, MarketingProfs, Coping and CURE Today. For more information visit www.terryhealey.com .
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A survivor of a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference, Terry Healey is an author, keynote speaker, and business strategist. Healey challenges audiences to face their adversities and to apply his framework of four key principles to gain confidence, build resilience, and find joy in their personal and professional lives.
Having endured more than thirty surgical procedures to reconstruct his face while in his early twenties, Healey discovered tools that could help him transform his changed life. He shares ways to take control, overcome challenges, build trust and teams, embrace change, and learn the value of acceptance and tolerance. He views the lessons he learned as gifts, and believes his greatest reward is being able to teach others how to overcome any kind of adversity and celebrate life.
His experience led him to a thirty-five-year successful career as a high-tech sales and marketing executive, including being on the founding team of a company that had a successful Initial Public Offering. His popular programs are presented to healthcare organizations, corporations, educational institutions, associations, and non-profits nationwide. They include Cisco Systems, Inc., Charles Schwab, The University of California Berkeley Football Team, Santa Clara University, Gilead Sciences, Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Genomic Health, Perkin Elmer, Stanford University, UC San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and many others.
A graduate of UC Berkeley, Healey is the author of The Resilience Mindset: How Adversity Can Strengthen Individuals, Teams, and Leaders (9/9/2025 – ECW Press/Simon & Schuster), At Face Value: My Triumph Over A Disfiguring Cancer (1/6/2006 – Caveat Press), and is a contributing author to Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity, Make Your Own Miracle: Surviving Cancer, an Anthology, and Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a Disability.
His work has appeared in the following publications: CEO World Magazine, Newsweek, Fast Company, Huffington Post, The American, Authority Magazine, Training Industry Magazine, Psychology Today, Metro UK, The San Francisco Chronicle, Guideposts, NurseWeek, U.S. News and World Report, MarketingProfs, Coping and CURE Today. He has appeared on dozens of national and local TV networks and has been interviewed on more than 100 podcasts and radio stations across the U.S. and Canada. Healey serves on the board of directors for the Sarcoma Alliance, and is an Ambassador for the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance. For more information visit www.terryhealey.com .
