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Top rated!Alison Canavan is a globally recognized keynote speaker who inspires lasting change through mindfulness, energy mastery, and conscious leadership.
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“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 Canavan is a globally recognized keynote speaker, wellness expert, and mindfulness facilitator whose journey is as compelling as it is transformational. Known for her rare authenticity on stage, Alison draws on her life beyond the spotlight to inspire audiences to redefine success from the inside out. Her work empowers people to manage stress, reclaim their energy, and lead with clarity and intention. Through a powerful blend of storytelling, science, and soul, Alison creates experiences that leave audiences deeply moved and ready for meaningful change.
Alison Canavan’s path to becoming one of the most prominent voices in mindfulness and conscious leadership began in the world of high fashion. As an international supermodel, she experienced external success at the highest level, gracing renowned runways and fashion magazines across the globe. Yet behind the glamour, Alison faced addiction, mental health challenges, and profound burnout.
Rather than defining her, these experiences became the foundation of her work today. Alison’s keynote talks are rooted in lived truth, shared with humility and emotional intelligence. Audiences connect instantly with her story because it is real, relatable, and human. She speaks openly about recovery, resilience, and rebuilding a meaningful life, creating a safe and powerful space for reflection and growth.
When you book Alison Canavan for your event, you invite a speaker who understands that energy is the true currency of our lives. Alison teaches audiences how to spend, save, and invest their energy wisely in a world defined by pressure, pace, and constant distraction.
Her keynotes offer science-backed tools drawn from mindfulness, neuroscience, breathwork, and energy management. Participants leave with practical strategies they can apply immediately, at work and at home, to reduce stress, strengthen focus, and build long-term resilience. Alison’s ability to translate complex concepts into accessible, actionable insights makes her message resonate across industries and cultures.
Alison is on a mission to redefine success through self-awareness and conscious leadership. She challenges outdated ideas of productivity and performance, replacing them with sustainable models rooted in presence, purpose, and wellbeing.
Her work speaks directly to leaders and teams navigating change, burnout, and high expectations. Alison shows how clarity, creativity, and connection naturally emerge when leaders learn to regulate their nervous systems and lead from alignment rather than pressure. Her message sets a powerful tone for conferences and corporate events, making her a highly sought-after opening keynote speaker.
Alison Canavan’s authority is grounded in both experience and extensive training. She is a UCLA-trained Mindfulness Facilitator through the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, a Master NLP Practitioner, HeartMath Facilitator, Raw Foods Master, Nutritional Coach, and an award-winning author of Minding Mum. With over 25 years as a meditation practitioner, Alison brings depth, credibility, and warmth to every stage she steps onto.
She has delivered opening keynotes, led corporate retreats, and designed immersive workshops for leaders, teams, and organizations around the world. Her sessions are known for being engaging, experiential, and deeply impactful, often described as moments that shift not just thinking, but perspective.
Alison’s trailblazing contribution to the wellness space has earned widespread recognition. She was recently honored as one of the Top 100 Irish in Business in America (2025) and named one of the Top 8 Transformational Coaches in the U.S. by USA Today. Her leadership in holistic health was also celebrated with the Woman’s Way Mum of the Year award.
A true pioneer, Alison created Ireland’s first one-day transformational immersion, The Full 360, weaving together gratitude, mindset, nutrition, sound healing, and energy work. Early in the digital era, she became one of the first to bring meditation to online platforms through social media, making powerful practices accessible to a global audience long before it became mainstream.
Booking Alison Canavan means offering your audience more than inspiration, it means delivering a transformational experience. Her dynamic presence, emotional resonance, and practical wisdom leave people feeling seen, empowered, and ready to create meaningful change.
Whether addressing leaders, teams, or large conference audiences, Alison’s blend of storytelling, science, and soul creates lasting impact. She doesn’t just speak about wellbeing and leadership, she embodies it. Alison Canavan helps people reconnect with their purpose, unlock their potential, and lead their lives with greater clarity, connection, and creativity.
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“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 Canavan
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“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
Alison Canavan
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“Thank you for choosing such an amazing speaker today. She was incredible. I got stopped by almost every person that left with the same sentiments. Many said that this was one of the best events they have ever been to. I am grateful to have heard her message today; and, I know the chapter is as well.”
EO St. Louis
Alison Canavan
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“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 Canavan
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“Alison was amazing and a perfect fit for our event, and our company culture! What a gem – We so enjoyed meeting her and have heard nothing but praise from our attendees. We couldn’t be happier!”
Eufora
Alison Canavan
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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
Alison Canavan
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YPO St. Louis recently hosted Aly Canavan for an evening of Mindfulness. Her rating was a perfect 10, along with comments from YPO members stating how much they enjoyed the resource. Personally, I’ve hosted hundreds of events over the course of my 17 year career with YPO. I think Aly is one of the best resources we’ve ever had. I would highly recommend her to other YPO chapters.
YPO St. Louis
Alison Canavan
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From the moment Alison walked on stage to keynote our annual convention, to the moment she walked off, the audience was absolutely captivated. Our event was themed “Transformation” and her insights, vulnerability, and energy aligned with the theme and inspired everyone present. As I looked across the room I saw people emotionally engage with her stories and grounding techniques. (Our executive team continues to use them to manage our stress to this day.) Even those uninitiated in mindfulness practices found her teachings practical for use in daily life. Our audience loved her message and we will be working more with her in the future.
Amare Global
Alison Canavan
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Alison joined us for the final day of our annual three day off site meeting to help us focus on personal development. Alison’s session was at once practical in terms of steps we can take to balance home life and work life, but in truth it delivered much more…introspection, self-reflection, emotion and motivation. It was real, tapped into our investment in our people in a genuine way and allowed us to look at our development as people rather than employees. It hit exactly the right note and at the right time. I would highly recommend Alison if you are open to honesty, sincerity and looking after your team beyond what the ‘job’ provides them.
CEO, KYNE
Alison Canavan
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We hired Alison at City National Bank to lead her HEART series program for the Women’s<br>Network nationwide. This was especially helpful keeping colleagues grounded, focusing on<br>self-care and motivated to achieve at the same time. Many had never experienced this kind<br>of programming before and now practice what they have learned regularly.
Nichole City National Bank
Alison Canavan
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Alison's energy, insight and emotional intelligence make her a joy to work with. She’s an honest and powerful speaker who can hold an audience spell-bound, and she puts her all into everything she does. We’ve always been grateful for her support for the work we do in Barnardos, but more than that because she is a continuing source of inspiration and ideas.
Fergus Finlay CEO Barnardos
Alison Canavan
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I first met Alison on the ‘Walk In My Shoes’ fund raising and awareness project. Ali was a rock of good sense and committed to sharing her story with anyone who needed help or could help. She has an intuitive personality and a need to open things up for discussion until she understands all aspects of the issues. Ali is a doer and I am grateful that she has given so much of herself to raise awareness for mental health issues in Ireland.
Adam Clayton U2
Alison Canavan
Keynote by Alison Canavan:
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 to 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.
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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.
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Helping individuals transition from surviving to thriving and find joy and fulfillment in their lives by:
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The Art of Inspirational Living is a H.E.A.R.T based program that covers so many of the pain points in today’s world 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 tweak it to their specific needs.
The program encourages a healthy and more balanced life. Alison has trained health coaches, CFO’s, CEO’s and many more in H.E.A.R.T based living helping people to reduce stress, incorporate better daily habits and have better overall understanding of health and wellbeing.
H.E.A.R.T is currently being offered as a half or full day program in person or over 4 months with 4 virtual sessions and exercise and challenges to do in between each session. It can also be adapted for an individual session virtually.
Key takeaways include:
H – HEALTH
E – EARTH
A – ACTION
R – RESPECT
T – TIME
Overall, the audience will walk away from Alison’s keynotes with a renewed sense of purpose, a commitment to personal growth, and a deep appreciation for the joy and possibilities life has to offer.
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Watch Alison Canavan in action
