Alison Canavan Keynote Speaker

Transformational Coach & Author
Mindfulness Advocate
Named one of the Top 8 Transformational Coaches in the US by USA Today

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Alison Canavan's Biography

Alison Canavan is an acclaimed international speaker, wellness coach, and mindfulness advocate, inspiring audiences worldwide with her powerful message of energy management, personal growth, and well-being. As a former international model, she has graced the world’s most prominent runways and magazines, but it is her journey beyond the spotlight that truly captivates audiences.

Overcoming mental health struggles and addictions, Alison found healing and transformed herself into a source of inspiration. Today, she has made it her mission to guide others in regaining control of their lives and uncovering the profound rewards of mindfulness and self-care.

Alison has been a meditation practitioner for 25 years and has spent over a decade teaching innovative ways of understanding personal development and energy management. Alison pioneered the “Full 360” events in Ireland, designing a day-long immersion in meditation, mindset, gratitude, nutrition, sound healing and so much more. This type of event was the first of its kind in Ireland and an incredibly brave step to take into an area that was relatively unknown at that time. Alison’s work was rewarded with the Woman’s Way Mum of the Year award, a prestigious award for exemplary leadership and innovation in the wellbeing space.

Named one of the Top 8 Transformational Coaches in the US by USA Today in 2021, Alison is a UCLA-trained Mindfulness Facilitator from The Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is a Master NLP Practitioner, HeartMath facilitator, Nutritional coach, Raw Foods Master, Meditation and Breathwork teacher and the award-winning author of Minding Mum: It’s Time to Take Care of You – the world’s first 360 self-care book for mums focusing on health and wellbeing post birth. Alison was also one of the first people to teach meditation online using social media.

Through her keynotes, workshops, and consulting, she blends teachings and practices like relaxation, mindfulness, meditation and breathwork with life-changing mindset tools that encourage personal and professional growth and true organizational transformation. Her techniques and evidence-based practices guide participants on how to best spend, save and invest their energy, leading to deeper connections and an increase in opportunities for purpose-driven work.

Alison’s approach to personal growth and corporate success is grounded in authenticity, compassion, and practicality. Her engaging presentations resonate deeply with audiences, leaving them inspired to embrace change and live with purpose. In addition to her speaking engagements, Alison’s work extends to advocacy for mental health awareness, promoting wellbeing, and supporting positive change within communities. Her dedication to empowering lives has earned her recognition as a change agent and an influential force in the field of wellness.

Alison believes that energy is the currency of the future. She teaches that the most important currency to drive growth isn’t a financial measure. It’s the capitalization of your personal energy and that of the people you surround yourself with. Both on stage and off, Alison’s mission remains clear – to create a ripple effect of positive transformation, helping individuals and companies thrive with a mindful and purpose-driven approach to life.

Leading from Within – Mastering Your Energy

We are in a period of transition where the possibilities are limitless, and the future of leadership invites a paradigm shift. This requires leaders who understand the power of self-awareness, authenticity, and compassion. “Leading from Within” is a visionary approach to leadership that fosters personal growth, inspires teams, and catalyzes positive change in society through the mastery of one’s own energy.

People think they need better time management, but they actually need better energy management. In a world where people feel like they are always playing catch up with a never-ending to-do list, it can be helpful to understand energy management. Understanding energy helps us to become more present, focused, efficient, less stressed, sleep better, and have better quality relationships.

In this keynote, Alison encourages participants to look at energy as a currency, asking questions like:

How do you spend your energy each day?
Do you save your energy for when you need it?
What habits deplete your energy, and what habits are life-giving?

Audiences will follow Alison through practical exercises in order to experience a shift in their own energy in real-time. Energy is contagious, and through the lens of understanding coherence, participants have the opportunity to understand the energy of stress and anxiety and how to transform that into an energy of presence, patience, and calm.

Through heart-centered consciousness and learning to master your own energy, the three C’s – connection, community, and coherence – become the pillars and foundation upon which a strong life and, in turn, a strong business is built.

The Game of Life and How to Play It

For some people, the joy has literally been sucked out of life like a vacuum. The busyness epidemic has created a paradigm of surviving rather than thriving. This has caused increased individual stress as well as strained cultures in the workplace.

In this thought-provoking keynote, Alison looks at life like a game where we all have the choice to take part and become a key player in our own lives.

Are you a conscious or unconscious player? Are you a victim or a victor in your own life?

Alison offers various practical thinking tools to help you become not only an active and conscious player of life but a thriving and joyful one too.

HEART – The Art of Inspirational Living

The Art of Inspirational Living is a H.E.A.R.T-based program that addresses many of today’s most pressing challenges—like stress, boundaries, focus, resilience, time, values, mindfulness, and coherence.

It encompasses a full 360° approach to living a healthy, happy, and successful life for each individual. The H.E.A.R.T technique can be applied to anyone’s life, and Alison works with each individual client to tailor it to their specific needs.

The program encourages a healthier, more balanced life. Alison has trained health coaches, CFOs, CEOs, and many others in H.E.A.R.T-based living—helping people reduce stress, build better daily habits, and gain a stronger understanding of health and well-being.

Program Format Options:

Half or full-day in-person experience
Four-month virtual program with 4 live sessions, plus exercises and challenges between sessions
Adaptable for a single virtual session upon request

Bonus Resource: Alison’s 5 Minute Journal is available for purchase for any event and offers practical prompts and tools to help conference participants apply what they learn. Based on gratitude and neuroscience, this journal helps users understand behavior and habits while encouraging discipline and focused intention.

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Comments & Testimonials

Alison was one of my all time favorite YPO speakers. She has a magical presentation style that makes you feel like you are listening to a hilarious old friend while learning about ways to transform your life. She distilled an extraordinary number of wellness ideas into a succinct presentation. I left the evening with a short list of books to read and practices to try. I wish she was a monthly speaker! I would very highly recommend her to any chapter looking for a smart, engaging speaker in the wellness space.

YPO North Texas

Alison was scheduled to present ways to practice self-care via mindfulness. Unbeknownst to her, her audience was a multigenerational mixture of skeptics and receptive team members who are analysts by trade. She completely engaged the audience through her use of media, team exercises and animated narrative. Even months after the event, team members are still talking about her successful event and using the diaries that she created to further instill the principles of mindfulness. In fact, a few have suggested that they wished that she would come back on a regular basis! We highly recommend her, especially to gain tools to better insulate employees from burnout, COVID weariness and, above all, fear!

Plancorp

I want to thank Alison so so much! It was simply wonderful – so much powerful information. Her energy and enthusiasm was infectious. Please thank her for us, we are incredibly grateful.

Coinbase

Alison has been a fantastic addition to the Allianz Active & Aware programme. Her enthusiasm and passion for Health and Wellbeing was palpable from the moment she arrived. Her honesty about her journey was refreshing and ensured that her presentation was incredibly interesting and most importantly enabled her to connect with the groups she was addressing. Her presentation style is effortlessly engaging, exuberant and infectious, and most importantly inspirational as she demonstrates how everyone has the ability to take control of our wellbeing destiny.

Events and CSR Executive, Allianz Ireland