Changing Perspectives-Transforming Lives. That’s what Kathleen Passanisi is all about. Often called “a meeting planner’s dream,” Kathleen delivers compelling customized content on life balance, the therapeutic value of humor, and dealing with the challenges of life in the “sandwich generation.” Her credentials and track record as a healthcare professional, businesswoman, and Hall of Fame Speaker assure you she is one of the very best—whether for The Fortune 100, healthcare groups, or major women’s events.
When only the best will do, meeting planners consistently choose Kathleen because she is a Hall of Fame speaker, healthcare professional, therapeutic humor expert, author, and the filling spilling out of the Sandwich Generation. Her presentations are as fall-down funny as they are powerfully motivating. Bazillions of people have eagerly soaked up her ideas on life balance, stress management and making their world easier and a whole lot more fun. Kathleen brings substance, style, and clean hilarity to her universal content, guaranteeing a successful event with lasting effects. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Working Woman magazine, and England’s Sunday Business.
WHAT IS NEW PERSPECTIVES?
New Perspectives is the company Kathleen founded in 1987 to address issues in wellness, stress management, life balance, and the link that exists between humor and health. Her ability to customize programs to meet the needs of a wide variety of fields and all levels of staff has resulted in long-term clients that include The Fortune 100, major healthcare systems, leading universities, seriously ill people, overly serious people, all kinds of associations, and tons of women’s groups.
HOW GOOD IS SHE?
“Since we began working with you several years ago, we have grown to expect nothing but an outstanding presentation, and we have yet to be disappointed. We have learned to make arrangements prior to your appearances for a very large crowd, and are used to repeated requests from our guests to give you additional time and to have you return for future events.” – Darla Wertenberger, St. Luke’s Hospital
For more than twenty years, Kathleen has been acknowledged as a “real life saver – literally,” and a “meeting planner’s dream.”
Credentials include:
• Member of the Speaker Hall of Fame (CPAE), one of only 31 women worldwide
• Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), the highest earned designation for professional speakers
• Recipient of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor
• Author of It’s Your Life – Choose Well and co-author of Humor Me, America’s Funniest Humorists on the Power of Laughter
• Licensed Physical Therapist (’72 to present) with post-graduate training in Marriage and Family Therapy (experienced department head plus 15+ yrs as clinical instructor and adjunct faculty member– Washington University School of Medicine)
• 2005 Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Missouri School of Health Professions
• 2006 Helen May Bradley award from Maryville University (outstanding contribution to the physical therapy profession
