Want to be the shining star of your next event? You've come to just the right place.

Allie Bowling is a professional business speaker who can open your meeting, convention, conference or seminar by presenting a high-content program, or keynote in a down-to-earth manner, on a topic that articulates today's timely business issues.

Allie is also a professional stand-up comedienne who can close your meeting, convention, conference or seminar with hilarious after-dinner entertainment.

* Your audience will benefit from her 25 years of business experience—from restaurant development and ownership—to membership promotion for several national, non-profits.

* Your audience will learn how to identify their strengths, respond to challenges, communicate their message, see options and opportunities and work together as a team. They’ll be thinking outside of the bun before they can say Cheeseburger-Cheeseburger.

* Your audience will see how easy it is to add humor to their work/life activities to maximize their professional and personal relationships.

* Your audience will discover how to get more of what they want out of life and how to let go of what they don't.

Allie Bowling's style is a unique blend of delivering sensible information in a humorous manner. Allie has a confident, professional and likeable style. Through her humor she gets the audience relaxed, responsive and receptive to new ideas.

When Allie speaks, people listen. They laugh, they learn and they think about how they can make changes to their personal and professional lives that will cause them to become more positive, productive and profitable.

In her keynote she articulates how she survived a brain tumor diagnosis, brain surgery, single-sided deafness and simultaneous care giving for her mother and mother-in-law. By devising a plan to handle major life choices in the same way as critical business decisions are made, she created a strategy and decision-making model for securing the best possible outcomes.

In today's marketplace, your audience deserves more than a book report. Give them a speaker who has roll-up-her-sleeves life experience. A speaker with rave reviews who'll give your audience practical ideas they can use.

Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow - A keynote with a surprising twist of fate

Allie Bowling is a professional speaker who listens. She’s a skillful communicator and a captivating storyteller. She’s got an obvious knack for being funny, which also transcends into serious issues of life. She draws her stories from a wide range of experiences; some commonplace and others are one in a million. Allie is able to lay a foundation of ideas in her presentations similar to how a painter uses a pallet of paint to lay a foundation of color. She is skilled at taking people through great depth in a story. Years of experience have deepened her laugh lines and softened her punch lines.

In 2003 Allie faced a frightening health reality—profound hearing loss in her right ear. After tests, her neurologist handed her a diagnosis that sent shock waves and fear through her; she had a brain tumor. She needed to undergo brain surgery. Without it, Allie was at risk of losing her hearing, facial paralysis, balance issues and other frightening consequences. She located the finest neuro-surgical team in the world for her specific type of brain tumor and flew a cross the country. Even by going to these great lengths, her hearing could not be saved. When she received this blow, Allie knew her life would never be the same.

She lost her hearing, not her ability to listen.

The challenges that she faced to reinvent her career, the life-style changes she had to make, and the strategies she devised for securing the best possible outcomes are articulated in her keynote Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow. Her story helps people connect through similar, difficult, decision making situations and life changing events. It helps them explore their own “invisible disabilities” freeing them up to move in the direction of a happier, healthier and more productive life.

She shares her secrets of how to listen when one can’t hear.

Your audience will come away with a need to listen to their gut, be flexible, have options, and create a strong personal and professional support system. Allie weaves her rich humor throughout and shows that there is still plenty to laugh about.

Stand-up Comedy Entertainment

Allie has always made people laugh. Her professional stand-up comedy career was born in 1992 and gained momentum by performing at clubs such as The Improv, Headliner's, Comedy Café, The Laff Stop and the famous Shoreham Marquee Lounge. Audiences enjoyed the experience of listening to her observations on the absurdities of life.

Her style of comedy then and now has always remained the same. It’s geared toward business and professional audiences—those who seek smart, clean, upbeat and genuinely funny material.

* Strike While the Comedy is Hot! - (30-minutes after dinner only)

* Every Woman Needs HRT — Humor Replacement Therapy!

Clients

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
American Parkinson’s Disease Association
Association of Meeting Professionals
Association of Wedding Professionals
Business & Professional Women, Inc.
Construction Specifications Institute
Garvins Comedy Club
George Mason University
Greater Washington Women's Network
Illinois State Society
Internal Revenue Service
International Special Events Society Annual Awards Gala
Leukemia – Lymphoma Society
Morgan Stanley
NASA (Headquarters, Wash. DC and Greenbelt, MD)
National Telephone Cooperative Association
Navy Federal Credit Union
New York Life Insurance Company
North Dakota Telephone Company
National Association of Catering Executives (NACE)
National Association of Women Business Owners
National Geographic Society
Northern Virginia Independent Financial Planners Association
Oregon University, Rural Health Conference
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Society for Human Resource Management
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
TEC – International Organization of CEOs
The Corcoran Museum of Art – Speakers Series
The Improv, Washington, DC
The Laff Stop, Houston, TX
The League of Women Voters of the United States
The Marquee Lounge in The Omni Shoreham Hotel
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of the Army – CO2 Training
U.S. Department of Education
United Professional Sales Association
University of Maryland
Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti, LLP
Women's Bar Association Foundation
Unique Foundation Spring Gala for Cancer Research 1999, 1998
Wyoming Telecommunications Associa

What people Are Saying

“I attended Allie's seminar and it was fantastic. I found myself riveted to my seat waiting for more information. She is a skilled conference presenter and finds key ways to involve her audience in the presentation. I learned so much that I have used in my daily business activities and have passed on her "words of wisdom" to others. Great Seminar, keep up the good work.”
-- Terrie J. Rollins - President and CEO RMR Technology Group

“Your presentation on Perception, Image and Marketing was professional and entertaining. Your key points were right on target. I learned something AND had a good laugh. I would highly recommend you!"
-- Christine Coker - President CokerSoft

“No one can be around Allie Bowling without making an improvement to their self-development. Her gift is to make people better.”
-- Lorraine Gaines - AMICA Mutual Insurance Company

"You were the hit of the human resources conference! Thank you for incorporating examples from our publications into your presentation Joy in the Workplace. You brought the perfect blend of wisdom and wit to the closing session and sent everyone home on a high. No conference planner could ask for more."
-- Mary F. Boyles - Training Specialist, National Telephone Cooperative Association

"Allie, I love your wit and humor. Your ability to entertain and bring laughter to others is great gift and when I am around you it’s like drinking a few glasses of wine!"
-- Sheila Savar, Savar & Associates

" I laughed so much, I had a Laughgasm."
-- Melanie Jones, Yoga Instructor & Creator of You Don’t Have to be Teeny to be a Yogini

"You have definite crowd appeal, resulting in our largest crowd ever in Washington, DC. If you come back, we’ll have to find a bigger room! And your professionalism displayed in being ‘last minute’ flexible to our changed schedule and room layout was nothing less than fantastic!"
-- Susan Wight - eWomen Network