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Holly Kostrzewski is an international keynote speaker who has inspired over one million people across the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand.
Holly Kostrzewski knows what it means to start over. At 18, she survived a traumatic brain injury and had to relearn how to walk, talk, read, and write.
She went on to spend 22 years in public service saving lives — and now she helps audiences turn their hardest moments into their greatest strengths.
After an hour with Holly, your audience will:
Have practical resilience strategies they can apply immediately — at work, at home, and everywhere in between.
See their setbacks differently — not as dead ends, but as the raw material for something better.
Leave laughing, connected, and genuinely motivated to act — not just inspired for an afternoon.
Walk away with a new relationship to hard things — and the confidence that they can handle what's next.
Holly is available for virtual, domestic, and international engagements.
“ 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
Holly in ACTION
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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.