TRANSPLANTFIRST - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Founder and CEO of Simon Says Seminars
• Our Founder

Risa Simon is the founder and CEO of Simon Says Seminars, inc., TransplantFirst Academy and TransplantStrong. As an immensely grateful preemptive (live-donor) kidney transplant recipient, she's giving back to empower others through her Donor-Seeker® Program, webinars, coaching and mentoring-and self-help books: In Pursuit of a Better Life: The Ultimate Guide for Finding Living Kidney Donors; and Shift Your Fate: Life-Changing Wisdom for Proactive Kidney Patients. For more information contact: mailto:risa@TransplantStrong.com Our founder, Risa Simon, is on a mission to empower the nation's kidney patient population by inspiring them to proactively fight for a better quality of life. The life Risa now lives! , is on a mission to empower the nation's kidney patient population by inspiring them to proactively fight for a better quality of life. The life Risa now lives! What ignites Risa's passion? A personal calling to fix our kidney community's broken patient engagement system. Risa knows firsthand how patient education models lack proactive engagement and encouragement. From delayed treatment discussions to over saturated dialysis education to fistula-first campaigns-patients are being robbed of their only chance to secure a preemptive kidney transplant. Risa founded TransplantFirst Academy to positively disrupt patient engagement for the lion share of kidney disease patients who could benefit from a preemptive transplant. Risa knows the life-changing power behind proactive patient engagement. She used her own fear as a powerful motivator and pushed herself to explore beyond the sacred walls of a medical exam room. This is where Risa uncovered a whole new world of possibility. A world where one could bypass dialysis. A world full of hope and second chances. A world she never knew existed. While Risa greatly benefited from these discoveries, she remained deeply troubled that a proactive path was rarely encouraged by kidney patient providers. This reality compelled her to pump up the volume and expand preemptive opportunities through Transplant-First initiatives. Fortunately, these discoveries snapped her out of her doctor's hypnotic "you've got time" trance in time to start fighting for her best life possible-the life she now lives. Today you'll find Risa marching full-steam-ahead, leading The Proactive Path and the TransplantFirst Academy to help those who could benefit from a transplant join this forward movement.