Alison Canavan

“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.” Melanie Meyer

“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. Even though she endured some technical difficulties, she did not miss a beat. 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!”

'I just want to thank Alison so so much!!! It was simply wonderful. So much powerful information. Her energy, enthusiasm was infectious. We are incredibly grateful that she shared her time with us this afternoon.'

I was lucky enough to take Alison's dream building course during this questionable Covid time. Alison's calm and soothing demeanor, and gracious energy, offered the perfect restorative exercise needed to get back on track. I was able to focus on my goals and envision where I see myself. I felt so much calmer and motivated after her session, and was deeply touched by the journaling exercise. I quickly referred her to many of my contacts. She offered one of the best private sessions my women's group has ever encountered. Alison is a special light force and I feel grateful to have been able to participate and work with her.

We are a people focused business and are committed to supporting people's wellbeing. Alison's mindfulness workshops were excellent and enabled people to think how they balance the pressures of modern life. Alison presented virtually and was engaging, approachable and kept very high energy levels. We can't wait to have her back.

Alison has been a fantastic addition to the Allianz Active & Aware programme. Her enthusiasm and passion for Health and Well-being 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 well-being destiny.

Alison Canavan was an uplifting, insightful speaker. We were lucky to have her keynote at our event; Refuel. She had our audience engaged, present, and even had people up and dancing. What I found most valuable was her takeaways for our team to lead a more meaningful impactful journey with their life.

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.

As a PTSD survivor, I wanted to say thank you for reminding me of some of the methods I can do to make my day smoother and to own my downs as well as ups… we (me especially) are too quick to self criticise and it's an easy pattern in which to slip back into. The workshop was a wonderful break and much needed re-set in what is a stressful time for all of us.

Alison was the perfect addition to our company's training camp. We pride ourselves in offering continued education to our clients and Alison delivered on a topic that fit in seamlessly with the rest of our presenters. Our team enjoyed the opportunity to have a content call with Alison during which we felt like she expressed a genuine interest in our company and our message. She asked questions and offered up ideas and it was evident she spent a lot of time preparing the topic and presentation. Our audience thoroughly enjoyed the presentation and learning so much from Alison. Overall, a huge success!