Healthcare

Terry helps teams build resilience, gain confidence, and fuel growth. Terry shares inspiring stories about how healthcare professionals improve patient outcomes.

Recent Testimonials

"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

 

“Terry's story will leave you inspired to embrace vulnerability, build resilience, and connect with others on a deeper level.” Julie Atkinson, RN, Host, A Nurse’s Journey Virtual Summit, June 2, 2025

the pressures of the medical field

Terry helps medical professionals make greater patient impact by reminding them how vital their work is.

Speaker Review: A New Nurse's Journey Summit June 2025 - Julie Atkinson

High workloads, stress, and burnout have strained the current U.S. nursing workforce, compounding observed attrition over the past two years. Half of all nurses feel emotionally drained, used up, fatigued, and burned out a few times a week to every day. 29% reported feeling at the end of their rope at similar intervals. Looking ahead, 984,000 RN’s and LPN’s/LVN’s indicate they are likely to leave nursing by 2027. Younger, early career nurses account for 24% of the RN total due to burnout and stress. But many of our younger nurses last two years or less in their occupations. But, there is hope. These projections can be altered based on decisions policymakers make today and in the near future. Inspiring current and next generation nurses and physicians is key to preventing attrition and driving recruitment. That’s where Terry comes in!

Moral injury and distress are paramount in the medical system today, and no medical professionals are immune from the challenges and constraints it has on their professional and personal lives. Terry shows administrators and clinicians the importance of balance in the workplace to ultimately improve patient outcomes and help prevent burnout.

Terry reminds medical professionals why they entered their field to begin with – to make a difference in patients’ lives. Beyond medicine, it’s equally important to understand what makes each patient tick and what they might respond to that can change their attitude and shorten recovery. Terry employs personal storytelling to illustrate tactics and approaches used by nurses and doctor’s that can change the trajectory of their patients in a positive way – outside of the medical treatment they are receiving. These inspirational tactics and approaches are great ways to learn resilience and renewal, and drive medical professional satisfaction.

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 - Keynote

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.

 

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Reviews from the Healthcare Industry

He truly embodies the resilience he teaches

"Terry Healey is not only an engaging speaker but also has a deeply touching story to tell. He truly embodies the resilience he teaches. We were fortunate to have Terry speak to our local SPOHNC chapter about his journey with head and neck cancer, and patrons both new and familiar stayed engaged throughout his presentation. We look forward for the opportunity for him to return after his next publication!", April 21, 2026

Gina Rotondo, MS, CCC-SLP Supervisor, Outpatient Rehabilitation Services, Arroyo Grande Community Hospital Outpatient Rehabilitation, SPOHNC facilitator, Central Coast at Mission Hope Cancer Center
Everyone in attendance was riveted by his survival story

We were privileged to have Terry Healey keynote our Revolutionaries for Global Health Summit in San Francisco. As a cancer survivor, his talk drove home PerkinElmer’s mission of eradicating cancer. Everyone in attendance was riveted by his survival story – it was wonderful to see his story inspire the doctors, government officials, investors, scientists, and researchers to work harder in the global battle against cancer. It brought PerkinElmer’s applications & technologies, science, and patients’ struggles together to show the big picture of what can be done to eradicate this disease. Seeing how Terry’s talk first-handedly motivated such a large group of diverse people to come together as a global health revolutionaries’ movement against cancer/disease was a once in a lifetime experience!

Kevin Hrusovsky President, Life Sciences & Technology, PerkinElmer
That Terry be heard is critical!

That Terry Healey be heard is critical. His presentation, At Face Value, is compelling for all health care workers and inspiring for all patients.

Eden Rivera, R.N., B.S.N. Assistant Patient Care Manager, 14 Long, University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Terry consistently delivers!

"Terry is an exceptional speaker — organized, intentional, and deeply thoughtful about selecting topics that truly resonate with and inspire his audience. Whether helping listeners heal and grow on their own personal journeys, or equipping others with resilience 'tools' to share with their patients, friends, or clients, Terry consistently delivers content that makes a lasting impact." July 18, 2026

Gini Marquette President, California Society of Medical Assistants
He connects with the audience!

"Terry connects with the audience on so many levels and does so with kindness and understanding." January 20, 2026

Eileen Sexton Program Director, Head and Neck Cancer Alliance
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.

Patrick Shea Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Oncology Business Unit, Ligand Pharmaceuticals.
He is an excellent speaker and presenter.

Terry was the motivational speaker at our first-ever Leadership Kickoff Meeting. His personal story of strength and courage was very well received by our management team, especially after some intense business planning sessions. He is an excellent speaker and presenter, and his message of overcoming obstacles and taking risks was particularly inspiring and appropriate for our group. We are looking forward to having him return to speak at future events for our Health System.

Paige Nebeker Director of Marketing and Media Relations, Tahoe Forest Health System.
Your presentation was entertaining, enlightening and informative.

You addressed the issues of acceptance, tolerance, growth and healing. You brought a sense of optimism and hope not only to others affected with cancer, but to all people. Thank you for sharing your story with the UCSF community.

Jenny Broberg University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Public Affairs.
As a cancer program administrator, I found Terry Healey’s testimonial of his journey with cancer absolutely inspiring.

Terry serves as a great example of how someone can turn a devastating event such as dealing with a disfiguring cancer into a story of resilience and survivorship. He is to be commended for his courage and willingness to serve as a beacon of hope and inspiration to those not only facing cancer but any major adversity in life.Thank you Terry!

Brenda Carlson Executive Director of Oncology, John Muir Health
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.
His story of recover, resilience, and rediscovered purpose will move you deeply

Terry's story will leave you inspired to embrace vulnerability, build resilience, and connect with others on a deeper level.

Julie Atkinson, RN Julie Atkinson, RN, Host, A Nurse’s Journey Virtual Summit, June 2, 2025
A great presentation.

A great presentation. It was both stimulating and of practical value for our group.

M. Anthony Pogrel, D.D.S., M.D., F.R.C.S. Professor and Chairman Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)