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Shanna Adamic

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

Shanna Adamic

St. Louis, United States

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Shanna Adamic's biography

At a glance

  • Executive Director of Oracle Health Foundation
  • Former Kansas City Chiefs cheerleading captain
  • Author of Audacious Optimism
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.

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Embracing the Unknown
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.
Ignite Your "I Will" Power
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.
Imagine What Could Be Possible
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.

Why we recommend booking Shanna

Shanna Adamic inspires teams to embrace change and overcome challenges with her unique blend of corporate leadership, personal resilience and powerful storytelling. Book Shanna to empower your group with practical strategies and a mindset of audacious optimism that drives growth and connection.

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Testimonials

Shanna brings an awe-inspiring story and personality to the stageand her relentless drive for audacious optimism has been the perfect blend of inspiration; how to and hope.

Steve Johns

CEO, OneCause

I cannot stop thinking about your talk. When it was over, I did a guttural exhale. I mean, I am usually just looking at the clock to see if we are on time, and not this 'in it'. You blew me away and our audience is all over LinkedIn today talking about you. I am so grateful you said yes because you helped make the event so powerful. I love that we ended with you!

Kansas City Business Journal

You are amazing! The energy you brought to the American Academy of Family Physicians will live with us for a long time! Your blend of savvy, powerful personal story and shared human experience opened our hearts and minds and introduced a fresh perspective during a pivotal business meeting. I am grateful, moved and eager to see all the good you will help make happen in the world!

American Academy of Family Physicians

Featured Projects

Shanna Adamic - Audacious Optimism: The Mindful Choice To Live Boldly And Create Endless Possibilities book cover

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What is Shanna Adamic's speaking style like?
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.
What topics does Shanna Adamic specialise in?
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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