Speaking Engagements
Hire Kelly to speak at your next corporate or fundraising event. An award-winning writer, Kelly has nearly a decade of experience as a patient advocate. In that time she has learned a thing or two about resilience, survival and letting go even when faced with the unimaginable. Through hosting over 100 episodes of her podcast Seizing Life with CURE Epilepsy, and speaking to audiences across the country and virtually, Kelly has proven herself to be an engaging, relatable and dynamic speaker whether performing solo or as part of a panel.
Past clients include Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Ernst & Young, NYU Langone Medical Center, CURE Epilepsy, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Circle of Life Hospice, among others.
Speaking Topics
Available but not limited to...
Mother May I?: Simple self check-ins to prevent emotional hangovers
Reframing Resilience: At home and in the workplace
Following the passing of my nearly four-year-old daughter I found my ability to emotionally and physically function in the world completely compromised. I had to rebuild my tolerance for standard social interactions from the ground up. Many of us are recovering from our own grief, trauma or hardship. Or maybe we are just worn down and exhausted by life. But with a few simple check-ins we can rebuild our tolerance and prevent future emotional hangovers.
Resilience has become quite the buzz word lately, and you don’t have to look far to understand why. The issue I’ve found is that resilience is often confused with compartmentalizing, shoving down and moving forward. Resilience takes dedicated effort, an acceptance and awareness. It isn’t something we achieve it is something we are continuously working toward.
In this talk I outline several key factors toward leading a more resilient life by sharing anecdotes from my life including: several forced career changes, caring for my medically-complex daughter and ultimately her passing.
When You Realize We All Grieve Differently
Grief can have an immense impact on our relationships with others. Whether we are grieving the same loss or not - how that loss effects us and how we process it will vary. This was a hard earned lesson following the loss of my daughter. I imagined that my husband and I would grieve her together but that couldn’t have been further from the truth. It took time and understanding to learn how we could support each other and still have our own grief needs met.