My name is Ali Ingersoll and I inspire audiences to Embrace Adversity and turn it into their Super Power.
Transformational Keynote Speaker on the power of how to "Keep Moving Forward"
Over 100,000 Audience Members Inspired
Connection
Ali will connect with your audience as she speaks on transformational change and overcoming adversity to find your super power .
Education
Ali educates professionals and organizations on how to embrace adversity in the unknown in order to advance change.
Energy
Ali performs with magnetic energy on stage, to inspire your audience through compassion and entertainment.
Authenticity
Ali shares her story through the lens of her own l lived experience of disability, inspiring audiences to embrace their own adversity.
Motivation
Ali motivates audiences to reframe their thinking and embrace adversity to discovery new solutions to everyday problems.
Previous Clients Include:
Ali brings a powerful story and inspirational message when she speaks. She spoke at our Annual MedTech Conference in Anaheim California with over 4000 attendees to Becton Dickinson (CEO) Tom Polen for a fireside chat on health equity access. Comments and feedback were overwhelmingly and enthusiastically positive. She quite frankly was the highlight of our conference day.
RAY BRISCUSO, Executive VP, Conference & Events Advamed / Advanced Medical Technology Association
Ali is creative and incredibly organized. She’s very thorough in her research and well-prepared for her projects. Ali’s candor and willingness to share her personal realities as a woman with a disability has helped open the line of communication among her peers.
DEBBIE MYERS, Executive Director of North Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association
“Working and collaborating with Ali has been a pleasure. She is always well prepared, extremely knowledgeable, and a highly influential advocate for the disability community. I highly recommend Ali to speak to your group about some of the most difficult issues that many of us in the disability community have to navigate.”
ANNIE STREIT, Grassroots Advocacy Manager, United Spinal
"Ali Ingersoll is a passionate disability rights advocate whom I have had the pleasure of working with for several years. Ali possesses the drive and passion that can light up a room. She infuses her intelligent analysis of situations with energy and humor. Having Ali as a friend and follow advocate brings me great joy and I hope you get the opportunity to hear her speak!"
KAREN ROY, LCSW, Disability Advocate, Numotion Brand Ambassador, Ms. Wheelchair America 2019
"Ali provides a powerful and eye-opening message about successfully navigating both providers and payers in submission of insurance claims for disability services. Honesty, persistence, and perseverance are her trademarks as she creates a pathway for obtaining fairness of coverage for individuals with disabilities. A must have speaker!"
KENNETH W. VANCE, President 2022-2023, NC Chapter of Health Financial Management Association
“When Ali takes the stage people listen and find themselves living more actively and with a newfound purpose. Her story and voice pull you in, wishing to learn more, and simultaneously she transfers her perspective and energy into audience action. It's both magical and empowering to witness how she catalyzes an audience to find their voice."
JOSH BASILE, Trial Attorney at Jack H. Olander & Associates, Community Relations Manager ataccessible, United Spinal Association Board member
"I have known Ali for over five years and continue to be amazed at the qualities she exhibits in every facet of her life. Ali is intelligent, articulate, very well liked, persuasive, well-educated and is a good listener. She has always exhibited great leadership skills and has demonstrated how to bring people together to achieve a common goal."
JERRY STALLS, Owner of Stalls Medical & Adaptive Vans
“Ali Ingersoll is a dynamic advocate for people with disabilities. Her life experiences make her the perfect consultant to life planning for people with disabilities and those who love and support them.”
VICKI SMITH, Executive Director for Alliance of Disability Advocates
“I have listened to Ali speak in front of Congress, and in front of crowds, and she is simply a motivator that has brushed off her difficulties and got back in the game. Ali has visible challenges but works harder than others to overcome her challenges. She can teach you what it takes to motivate yourself and others."
GREG A. PACKER, Past President of US Rehab
“Ali has an incredible gift for public speaking and the ability to engage an audience from start to finish. We were absolutely honored to have her as our speaker for a truly inspirational event.”
ASHLEY DAVIS, Global Disability and Neuro-Inclusion Leader for Cisco
“Ali Ingersoll is a force of nature—a true Renaissance woman. Ali brings an uncommon strength of character and sense of purpose to her disability advocacy—she is the kind of person who makes us all proud to be disability advocates.”
VINCENZO PISCOPO, CEO for United Spinal Association
Ali Ingersoll's Top Speaking Engagements
ALS Foundation Annual Conference
Healthcare Financial Management Association of North Carolina Annual Conference
Permobil Foundation Fundraiser
Becton Dickinson (BD) Med-tech Conference
Ali's Amazing Story
Assurant Keynote for Employee Resource Group Launch
North Carolina Parks and Recreation
Most Requested Keynote Presentations with Ali Ingersoll
Keynote #1
Keep Moving Forward: The Journey to Succeed
DESCRIPTION
Have you ever doubted yourself, felt uncertain, or perhaps a bit stuck? Discover how our greatest strength lies within. Ali shares her inspiring journey of resilience and adaptation after becoming a C6 quadriplegic following a diving accident. Overcoming hopelessness and despair, she discovered her internal strength to embrace her reality and adapt to her new normal—the unknown.
Through her compelling story, Ali highlights the remarkable power of the human mind to triumph over limitations we all face. Drawing from her personal experience, Ali offers practical insights and tools to navigate life’s uncertainties. Learn how to persevere and thrive in the face of visible challenges to unlock invisible opportunities in our everyday lives.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
A talk that will change your perception of adversity and inspire you to act. Ali will show you how to challenge your thinking, become your own self-advocate, and escape your comfort zone to tap into your full potential.
DESCRIPTION
Have you ever doubted yourself, felt uncertain, or perhaps a bit stuck? Discover how our greatest strength lies within. Ali shares her inspiring journey of resilience and adaptation after becoming a C6 quadriplegic following a diving accident. Overcoming hopelessness and despair, she discovered her internal strength to embrace her reality and adapt to her new normal—the unknown.
Through her compelling story, Ali highlights the remarkable power of the human mind to triumph over limitations we all face. Drawing from her personal experience, Ali offers practical insights and tools to navigate life’s uncertainties. Learn how to persevere and thrive in the face of visible challenges to unlock invisible opportunities in our everyday lives.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
A talk that will change your perception of adversity and inspire you to act. Ali will show you how to challenge your thinking, become your own self-advocate, and escape your comfort zone to tap into your full potential.
Keynote #2
Redefining Inclusion: Embracing Difference to Create Boundless Opportunities
DESCRIPTION
What is the price of exclusion within an organization when diverse perspectives are absent? Failure. When inclusivity is lacking, who do you lose first? Some of your strongest and most talented assets.
When exclusion wins, organizations lose through diminished problem-solving abilities, pervasive employee burnout, and decreased financial returns. Ali understands exclusion’s impact firsthand. Her 15-year battle for inclusion began when she was repeatedly denied medically necessary equipment by insurance providers after a tragic diving accident left her a C6 quadriplegic.
Ali favors a people-first culture. Join her as she shares her journey of resilience and offers practical solutions to create impactful Belonging and Wellness strategies for organizations losing over $300 billion/year due to workplace burnout.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
This presentation will empower and equip participants with innovative concepts and action strategies to create an impactful inclusion framework to reduce workplace burnout and increase employee retention.
DESCRIPTION
What is the price of exclusion within an organization when diverse perspectives are absent? Failure. When inclusivity is lacking, who do you lose first? Some of your strongest and most talented assets.
When exclusion wins, organizations lose through diminished problem-solving abilities, pervasive employee burnout, and decreased financial returns. Ali understands exclusion’s impact firsthand. Her 15-year battle for inclusion began when she was repeatedly denied medically necessary equipment by insurance providers after a tragic diving accident left her a C6 quadriplegic.
Ali favors a people-first culture. Join her as she shares her journey of resilience and offers practical solutions to create impactful Belonging and Wellness strategies for organizations losing over $300 billion/year due to workplace burnout.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
This presentation will empower and equip participants with innovative concepts and action strategies to create an impactful inclusion framework to reduce workplace burnout and increase employee retention.
Keynote #3
Unleash Your Purpose: The Transformative Force of “Happy Enough”
DESCRIPTION
Discover the liberating concept of “Happy Enough,” a refreshing perspective on finding lasting contentment. A tragic diving accident left Ali a C6 quadriplegic. Her inspiring journey of self-discovery exemplifies the transformative power of embracing “Happy Enough” in the face of adversity.
Participants will gain practical insights and actionable steps to take ownership of their happiness through re-defining success and taking 100% responsibility in their lives. Whether you are pursuing personal growth or overcoming professional challenges, this presentation will offer participants the tools they need to make real changes.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Join Ali for a thought-provoking exploration into redefining happiness and challenging your vision of what a successful life encompasses. This presentation will empower participants with a fresh approach to personal and professional growth.
DESCRIPTION
Discover the liberating concept of “Happy Enough,” a refreshing perspective on finding lasting contentment. A tragic diving accident left Ali a C6 quadriplegic. Her inspiring journey of self-discovery exemplifies the transformative power of embracing “Happy Enough” in the face of adversity.
Participants will gain practical insights and actionable steps to take ownership of their happiness through re-defining success and taking 100% responsibility in their lives. Whether you are pursuing personal growth or overcoming professional challenges, this presentation will offer participants the tools they need to make real changes.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Join Ali for a thought-provoking exploration into redefining happiness and challenging your vision of what a successful life encompasses. This presentation will empower participants with a fresh approach to personal and professional growth.
“Ali’s gift for storytelling, connecting the facts to the heart and building bridges of empathy means that by the time you finish listening to her, there will only be one question left. When do we start?”
MARY FERNANDEZ, Lead Disability Inclusion Consultant for Cisco Systems
I embrace my paralysis as a catalyst for transformation.
I’m inspired each and every day to focus on helping others, personally and professionally, in finding a purpose through a blend of psychology and neuroscience to redefine what happiness, success, and responsibility entail in many of our own lives.
Most importantly, I believe it’s not just what you do, but also about why you do it.
Using the lens of my own disability story, I get up on stage to change one life at a time.
“It’s not about me, it’s about authentically helping others to find their own path in life.”
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