Terry Healey
Terry Healey Speaker 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. 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), 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: CEO World Magazine, 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.
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Navigating Disruption in the Workplace with the ReBAR Resilience Framework
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.
Navigating Life’s Roadblocks and Building Resilience
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.
Building Resilience During Change
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.
Format: 2.5 – 4 Hour Workshop
