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Shanna Adamic

Emmy Award Winner, Oracle Health Leader & Healthcare Storyteller

Overcoming Adversity Change Management Leadership Personal Development

Emmy Award-winning storyteller and Oracle Health leader Shanna Adamic inspires audiences with powerful lessons on resilience, purpose, healthcare transformation, and audacious optimism.

Overcoming Adversity Change Management Leadership Personal Development

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Meet Shanna Adamic

Shanna Adamic is an Emmy Award-winning storyteller, Oracle Health leader, and international speaker whose work centers on creating meaningful connections through healthcare, philanthropy, and personal resilience. As Director of Oracle Health Executive Content and Oracle Video, she leads storytelling initiatives that elevate healthcare transformation and engage audiences around innovation, impact, and the future of care.

Shanna’s journey is both professional and deeply personal. After surviving a rare, life-threatening brain tumor that left her partially deaf, she transformed adversity into purpose and advocacy. Drawing from her experiences in healthcare leadership, philanthropy, media, and professional sports, she delivers presentations that inspire audiences to lead with resilience, optimism, and action.

Shanna Adamic is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Shanna Adamic’s fees.

Want to book Shanna Adamic for an event?

Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at (215) 995-0905 to book Shanna Adamic for corporate or private events, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, motivational speaking, or virtual appearances. Our agency will work directly with your organization and our keynote speakers to create an unforgettable event.

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Biography

Storytelling That Drives Impact

Shanna Adamic currently serves as Director of Oracle Health Executive Content and Oracle Video, where she leads storytelling efforts focused on healthcare innovation and transformation. As a correspondent for OracleTV, she brings healthcare stories to life through compelling interviews, narratives, and conversations that connect global audiences to the future of healthcare.

Prior to her current role, Shanna served as Executive Director of the Oracle Health Foundation. Under her leadership, the foundation delivered $50 million in pediatric grants supporting nearly 20,000 children worldwide. Her career spans more than two decades of work in philanthropy, healthcare initiatives, and community engagement, combining strategic leadership with a commitment to measurable impact.

Resilience, Leadership, and Purpose

Shanna’s perspective on leadership and resilience was profoundly shaped by surviving a rare, life-threatening brain tumor that left her partially deaf. That experience strengthened her commitment to helping others find hope, purpose, and optimism through adversity.

In addition to her healthcare and philanthropic work, Shanna built an accomplished career in media and professional sports. A regional Emmy Award winner, she spent eight seasons as a professional athlete and cheerleader with the Kansas City Chiefs and later served as a sideline reporter for the organization’s award-winning media team, 65 Toss Power Trap Productions.

Today, Shanna is an international speaker, published author, and trusted Oracle voice who inspires audiences through storytelling that encourages resilience, innovation, connection, and meaningful change.

How to Hire Shanna Adamic

To hire Shanna Adamic for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format, and program goals. Shanna Adamic is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats, and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Shanna Adamic’s availability, discuss the event details, and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Shanna Adamic for your program.

Shanna Adamic Booking Fee

The cost to book Shanna Adamic depends on the event date, location, format, audience size, and scope of the appearance. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings, and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Shanna Adamic booking fee, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with your event details. Our team will help confirm availability, pricing, and the best format for your event.

Speaking Topics & Programs

Shanna Adamic inspires audiences to approach uncertainty, adversity, and change with courage, resilience, and audacious optimism. Drawing from experiences that span NFL sidelines, corporate boardrooms, and her battle against a life threatening brain tumor, Shanna shares practical mindset strategies that help people move beyond fear and step confidently into possibility.

Common keynote themes include: optimism, resilience, mindset, confidence, adversity, courage, growth, possibility thinking, self-belief, and personal transformation.

The Power of Audacious Optimism

Choosing optimism is not about ignoring challenges. It is about believing in what is still possible.

Shanna shares how embracing uncertainty and stepping beyond comfort zones can unlock growth, confidence, and opportunity. Through personal stories and practical lessons, she challenges audiences to approach disruption with curiosity, resilience, and the belief that challenges can become catalysts for transformation.

Accept uncertainty as part of growth and opportunity.
Find possibility within difficult moments and challenges.
Understand the difference between optimism and happiness.

Ideal for organizations, leaders, and teams navigating change, uncertainty, or high pressure environments.

Ignite Your “I Will” Power

Resilience begins with the decision to keep moving forward.

Drawing from her recovery journey after a life threatening brain tumor diagnosis, Shanna shares how mindset, belief, and determination became critical tools in overcoming adversity. This keynote gives audiences practical ways to replace fear with confidence and build resilience through intentional daily habits.

Turn adversity into fuel for resilience and growth.
Replace fear driven thinking with bold confidence.
Harness the power of the words “I WILL” to create forward momentum.

Ideal for leadership events, women’s conferences, healthcare organizations, and audiences facing change or adversity.

Imagine What Could Be Possible

Thriving starts when you allow yourself to believe in a future beyond limits.

Shanna encourages audiences to think bigger, embrace curiosity, and redefine what is possible in both life and work. Through stories of perseverance and possibility thinking, she inspires individuals to pursue meaningful goals, celebrate growth, and move forward with greater courage and optimism.

Envision goals and opportunities beyond current limitations.
Celebrate both success and failure as part of growth.
Practice daily habits that strengthen an optimistic mindset.

Ideal for organizations focused on growth, innovation, leadership development, and personal empowerment.

Closing Takeaway

Shanna Adamic leaves audiences energized to face uncertainty with courage, optimism, and belief in what is possible. Her story and strategies remind people that resilience is built through adversity and that choosing an audaciously optimistic mindset can open the door to growth, confidence, and meaningful transformation.

Featured Client Reviews for Shanna Adamic

Shanna – you did an amazing job!!!

Everyone is raving about it!!! Phenomenal!! Your session was the perfect way to wrap up the conference!

— Virginia Bankers Association

Shanna’s inspiring story of defying challenges and believing in yourself captivated our audience.

Her resilience in conquering the unimaginable illustrates the power of audacious optimism that lives inside every one of us … we have the power to choose how we put our audacious optimism into action.

— Missouri Bankers Association

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.

Thank you for being so vulnerable and open and giving of your story and your time. I am so grateful you said yes because you helped make the event so powerful. I love that we ended with you!

— Event Director, Kansas City Business Journal

Books

Audacious Optimism: The Mindful Choice to Live Boldly and Create Endless Possibilities

Audacious Optimism delivers a riveting account of Shanna Adamic's journey from a highly successful career as a corporate philanthropist and former professional cheerleader, to surviving a rare and life-threatening brain tumor, to limited mobility and a 4% chance of regaining facial function on her right side, to her complete recovery and developing an unwavering dedication to optimism. This book teaches readers how to rally from within and push through those terrifying moments in life, when you've got it all on the line, and when the odds are looking slim, to find the hope and courage needed to make it through the darkness and out into a life full of wonder and joy.

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