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Shanna Adamic
Growth Mindset
Resilience
Adversity
Transform workplace resilience with Shanna Adamic, speaker and healthcare philanthropy expert. Shanna works with organizations to cultivate audacious optimism and navigate change, delivering powerful insights from her rare brain tumor survival story as Oracle Health Foundation Executive Director.
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Shanna Adamic brings a rare combination of corporate leadership, personal resilience and heartfelt storytelling to every stage she steps onto. With over twenty years of experience in social impact and healthcare philanthropy, Shanna serves as Executive Director of the Oracle Health Foundation, where she works to remove financial barriers to paediatric healthcare across the globe. Her career has spanned leading change through a major healthcare merger, producing Emmy-winning content, and inspiring diverse audiences with her deeply personal insights.
Her optimism was put to the ultimate test following the diagnosis of a rare, life-threatening brain tumour. Now partially deaf, and once given only a four percent chance of regaining facial function, Shanna emerged from her experience more determined than ever. Rather than being defined by adversity, she forged a mindset she now calls ‘audacious optimism’, a choice to meet uncertainty with bold belief and purpose.
Shanna’s professional path is rooted in connection. From captaining the Kansas City Chiefs cheerleaders and representing them on global military tours to hosting OracleTV and leading multimillion-dollar fundraising initiatives, she has used storytelling as a vehicle to unite and inspire. Her talks draw on this unique blend of corporate, performance and personal transformation, delivered with energy, clarity and warmth.
In her memoir, Audacious Optimism, Shanna continues to spark change and challenge assumptions through her voice and leadership. Her story resonates with those facing change, helping them reframe the unknown not as something to fear, but as the gateway to growth.
Topics, sessions and talks
Shanna Adamic challenges the fear of uncertainty by revealing how stepping into the unknown creates opportunities for growth. Reflecting on her journey from NFL sidelines to executive leadership, she shares the lessons that enabled her to thrive in unpredictable environments. With engaging storytelling and practical strategies, she helps audiences shift their perspective, embrace challenges with confidence, and uncover the unexpected possibilities that lie beyond their comfort zones.
Faced with a daunting diagnosis and a 4% chance of regaining full facial function, Shanna Adamic defied the odds by harnessing an unwavering belief in her own potential. Through this deeply personal and inspiring session, she breaks down the elements of willpower, resilience, and self-belief that enable individuals to rise above obstacles. Attendees will leave with a renewed sense of determination and a toolkit for overcoming setbacks with strength and purpose.
Shanna Adamic invites audiences to dream beyond limitations. Rooted in optimism and possibility thinking, she shows how to reimagine what thriving looks like, even in the wake of disruption. With warmth and vision, she challenges attendees to rewrite their personal narrative, shift perspective, and take bold action. This session blends insight with personal reflection, offering a renewed sense of purpose and the confidence to pursue dreams once thought out of reach.
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Shanna Adamic uses personal narrative drawn from her own medical experience — including a brain tumour diagnosis and a 4% chance of regaining facial function — as the structural backbone of her sessions, framing each talk around a defined mindset she calls audacious optimism. This is paired with practical strategies for resilience and perspective-shifting, delivered through a blend of corporate, performance and personal transformation experience spanning over twenty years.
Shanna Adamic speaks on embracing uncertainty, resilience in the face of adversity, and possibility thinking rooted in personal transformation. She serves as Executive Director of the Oracle Health Foundation, having led multimillion-dollar fundraising initiatives in paediatric healthcare while recovering from a rare brain tumour that left her partially deaf and initially given a four per cent chance of regaining facial function.
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