Discover practical resilience strategies they can apply immediately to both personal and professional challenges.
Be inspired to turn setbacks into comebacks, seeing obstacles as opportunities for growth.
Engage with humor and heart, walking away uplifted, connected, and motivated to act.
Gain insights from proven leadership impact, including behavioral change, interdisciplinary partnerships, and built lasting change in hard to reach and underserved communities.
GET CLEAR, ACTIONABLE STEPS to SET GOALS and ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THEM.
After an hour with Holly, your audience will have the tools they need to:
Don’t wait another month to get the tools for achieving your team’s personal and professional goals.
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“ It was a privilege to have Holly Kostrzewski in at the first Traumatic Brain Injury Conference in Christchurch New Zealand. Holly’s professionalism, expertise and storytelling ability elevated our conference to a new height. We heard from Holly across two days, each time exceeding our expectations. Feedback from conference goers praised Holly’s brilliant speaking, and we couldn’t agree more.”
Laura Fergusson Brain Injury Trust, Christchurch, New Zealand
Hi, I am Holly !!
Holly Kostrzewski is an international keynote speaker who has inspired over one million people across the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand. Known for her signature keynote The Junk Drawer: Stop Hiding the Hard and Start Turning Life’s Clutter into Courage, Connection, and Resilience, Holly helps audiences transform adversity into strength and discover the power of authentic storytelling.
As a woman living with a traumatic brain injury and the daughter of a paraplegic, Holly brings a rare blend of lived experience, humor, heart and hope to every stage. She spent 22 years in public service specializing in tribal, state, and federal traffic safety and injury prevention—earning national recognition for her leadership in rural and Tribal communities..
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HOLLY’S KEYNOTE TOPICS
The Junk Drawer: stop hiding the hard and start turning life’s clutter into courage, connection, and resilience
We all have a junk drawer—full of odds and ends we don’t quite know what to do with. Life is the same: it comes with messy, unexpected, and sometimes painful experiences we’d rather shove away. In this keynote, Holly shares her story of surviving a traumatic brain injury, sitting alongside her father after he became a paraplegic, and navigating the “junk drawer moments” we all carry. With humor, honesty, and heart, she inspires audiences.
Hiking to the Top of Mt TBI
At 18, Holly survived a traumatic brain injury that forced her to relearn how to walk, talk, read, and write. In this keynote, she shares her journey of recovery with raw honesty and humor—offering hope, practical lessons, and a reminder that resilience is possible, even in life’s hardest chapters.