Fall 2026
Keynote · Art Workshops · Fireside Chats · Patient Advocacy
Woody
Roseland
From the Hospital to the Gallery --
Art and Creativity as a Form of Survival
8x Cancer Survivor · Artist · Speaker
This Is What Survival
Actually Looks Like
Keynotes and art workshops designed for young adult cancer symposiums and nonprofit fundraisers that want to leave people changed — not just informed. Eight diagnoses. Still creating. Still performing. When he walks into your room, it stops being an event and starts being an experience.
"He didn't just survive. He showed us what surviving is actually for."
He Is the Patient
Your Work Fights For.
An oncology keynote speaker and patient advocacy speaker who brings the human cost — and the human triumph — into every room he enters.
"For the first time, our whole team remembered why we do this work."
What Woody Brings
To Your Audience
From the Studio — Painting Residency, Oaxaca
How Woody Works
With Your Event
01
Keynote
Woody doesn't just speak about surviving cancer eight times. He makes the room feel what life after cancer actually looks like — through art that refuses to stay still.
02
Art Workshop
Part theory, part making — you leave with something on your wall that actually means something.
03
Collaboration
We build something original together, that shows your audience exactly who you are and what you stand for.
Woody Roseland Abides By Three Principles
Trusted by
I've seen Woody work a room in multiple settings — from emceeing our events to sharing his story at our young adult cancer camps — and every time, he leaves people feeling something they want to act on. When you're producing a fundraising event, a moved room is a generous room, and Woody moves rooms. He holds a 22-year-old survivor and a 65-year-old donor in the same emotional moment, and that kind of unity is worth more than any ask you'll make that night.
Adam Schuster
CFO, First Descents
Woody has been a cornerstone of our events for years, and every single time he leaves the room different than he found it. Our community doesn't need more inspiration — they need orientation, someone who understands the disorienting reality of "I survived, now what," and Woody has lived that question more than most. As an 8x cancer survivor and amputee who didn't just survive but built something meaningful from it, he's not just a speaker we book; he's someone we trust with our people.
Shelbi Perry
Former Executive Director, Limb Preservation Foundation
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Leave Changed.
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