Terry Healey

SPEAKER TOPICS & TAGS

Business Strategist | Cancer Survivor | Celebrate Life | New Normal | UC Berkeley

Author | Disability Etiquette | Motivational Keynote | SPEAKERS | Technology

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 nonprofits nationwide. They include Cisco Systems, Inc., Charles Schwab, The University of California Berkeley Football Team, Santa Clara University, 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 At Face Value: My Triumph Over A Disfiguring Cancer, 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: Psychology Today, Metro UK, The San Francisco Chronicle, Guideposts, NurseWeek, U.S. News and World Report, Sales and Marketing Magazine, Coping and CURE Today. He has appeared on dozens of national and local TV networks and has been interviewed on more than seventy-five radio stations across the U.S. and Canada.

Speaker Topics

Navigating Life’s Roadblocks and Building Resilience

Attitude, Focus, and Teamwork

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 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. He shares ways to take control, overcome challenges, build trust and teams, face adversity and change, build resilience, and gain confidence.

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.