Non-Profits and Associations
Terry works with non-profits and associations to support their missions and educate participants and donors on how to build resilience and overcome adversity.
In his presentations, Terry covers his personal transformation to help participants and donors understand ways to navigate change, learn resilience and renewal, and develop the mindset for success.
Speaking Topics and Workshops Include
Navigating Life’s Roadblocks: Attitude, Focus and Teamwork
Terry takes you through his harrowing personal ordeal and what enabled him to focus on the positive aspects of his life that weren’t only lessons he learned, but gifts that he could impart to others struggling with their own challenges. Terry conveys the importance of taking note of ‘potential’ turning points in life and how to ensure that you create your own personal survival kit that will help you with career challenges, personal discovery, or physical challenges that may change the way you interact with others.
Frameworks to Overcome Adversity and Rebuild Confidence
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 and 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 more fulfilling life.
Dealing With Adversity and Taking Control of Your Life
Based on Terry’s extreme experience with adversity in his own life, Terry shares with us the lessons he learned about how to deal with adversity and how being focused and taking control of your life are the keys to making those difficulties not only tolerable but also valuable in our personal growth and development. Terry encourages the audience to confront things head on and to embrace, rather than fear our world that is constantly changing.
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.
testimonials
Reviews from Non-Profits and Associations
The most impressive talk they had ever heard.
Terry’s story is inspiring for anyone facing a life challenge. His honesty and vulnerability in relating his experience is something that everyone can connect to regardless of whether they are a cancer patient or not. Terry does an incredible job of telling his story in a personable, insightful and moving way, providing lessons that all of us can learn from. I wasn’t surprised to find my inbox full of positive messages from our audience the following morning, including some stating it was the most inspirational talk they had ever heard.
Rob Tufel Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Support Community, San Francisco Bay Area,
With faith and persistence, everything is possible!
It was a real treat to have you as our guest at the Elios meeting. As everyone agreed, the food was excellent, the atmosphere wonderful, but above all, your presentation was a memorable one. Everyone left the room with the conviction that with faith and persistence, everything is possible. I thank you for sharing your experiences and for giving us the opportunity to draw confidence and encouragement from your example.
Fanis Economidis President, Elios Society
I recommend him wholeheartedly.
This is a lovely man and a forceful, compassionate speaker. I recommend him wholeheartedly.
Whitney Burnett, Executive Director, National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction.
Attitude, support system, and positive thinking can keep us sound!
Every time I hear Terry share his amazing lifetime story, it gives back in so many ways. Remembering the messages from his experience means so much. It reminds us how our attitude, support system, and positive thinking can keep us sound during the hard times in life.”
Dina Benigni-Bogaards, CPIW, DAE, CRIS Coordinator, National Association of Women in Construction
Your life story is inspiring and your speaking style endearing!
Thank you so much for speaking at our Foodster’s (FIF) luncheon. Your life story is inspiring and your speaking style endearing. There wasn’t a member that wasn’t uplifted by the meeting’s end.
Ken Porter President, Food Industry Foundation
A leading healthcare services company agreed to another year of sponsorship after hearing your presentation.
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,
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
Inspiration to us all!
Thank you for speaking at our 19th Annual American Cancer Society Golden Gate Invitational. Our guests were visibly moved by your courageous personal story. Thank you for sharing and being such an inspiration to us all!
Golden Gate Invitational Council American Cancer Society
You 'blew guests away'!
It is no overstatement to say that you “blew guests away” with your up close and personal story! I really wanted to hear more – there’s a rich empathy to your style, and the guests on October 3rd felt they had made a friend, as you seemed to speak just to them! No wonder you are so much in demand as an inspirational speaker!
Dale Block President, Board of Directors, The Cancer League, Inc.
Songs of praise!
I found your story to be both inspirational and motivational. Immediately following your talk, I received numerous unsolicited songs of praise for your session. Thank you, Terry, once again, for an excellent program.
Lars Ho-Tseung President, Northern California Label Manufacturer’s Association
You are a blessing!
Terry, your presentation and speech was so touching, and such a memorable experience. Thank you for your voice, your courage and for sharing your adventure through the good and rough times. You are a blessing.”
Dina Benigni-Bogaards, CPIW, DAE, CRIS Tri-Valley Insurance Professionals, Immediate Past President, Membership Chairperson and Co-Chair for Programs and Ways & Means Chair
Terry will leave you touched and inspired.
Thank you so much for your amazing presentation. You really moved the audience and touched every individual in the room. Terry will impress you and leave you touched and inspired.
