SPEAKING and FACILITATION
Humanizing Healthcare
I bring scientific and academic credibility, deep experience-design skill, and joyful, relatable presence to my speaking and facilitation. Whether it's for a healthcare conference, an academic convening, or a private off-site retreat, I travel nationally to deliver keynotes and facilitate retreats.
Every aspect of my work is designed to uplift human connection, meaning that I rarely lecture "at" groups. Instead, I create dynamic experiential arcs that engage participants with each other in powerful ways.
Playful. Impactful. Real
Conference Keynotes
Main Stage at American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2024, Innovation Learning Network 2024, Silicon Valley Community Foundation 2025, Opening Keynote at Azara User Conference 2025, WELCOA 2023, Intend Health Relational Leadership Convening, The Art and Science of Health Promotion, Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US)
Retreats
I am dedicated and skilled partner in design and delivery of powerful, healing, and community-building retreats for professional and community groups. I facilitate frequently at 1440 Multiversity (Healing our Healthcare Heroes), Reflections Retreat, and more.
Team Off-sites
Clients include Kaiser Permanente, Genentech, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Abbott Diabetes Care, Imaginatik. I lead sessions at All-Staff meetings, annual gatherings, company trainings, and other organizational events.
Community as Medicine
Community As Medicine is a joyful, high-vitality, heartfelt, intimate, playful, and dynamic exploration of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being in the healthcare context.
Based on the work of Open Source Wellness, pioneering highly innovative clinic-community integration and clinic-payor-government-CBO partnerships, Community As Medicine is 30% keynote and 70% direct experience. Participants will physically move around the room, speak intimately with at least 8 other participants, laugh, feel, share with the whole group, and leave with tangible action steps to carry forward into their work and world.
If offered early in a convening, it will profoundly transform the way that people relate to each other for the rest of the gathering. It leaves people deeply connected with themselves and each other, – relating from a default assumption of safety, mutuality, invitation, trust, and welcome – rather than starting from a default position of professional identity, personal reserve, and normative mistrust.
Custom-Designed Keynotes and Experiences
I love to partner with organizers and leaders to design and deliver bespoke sessions to suit the needs of your team, community, and context.
Depending on the needs/desires of conference organizers, the ‘flavor’ of my facilitation can be adjusted towards more academic/professional or more humanistic/experiential framing to meet the needs of a given convening.
The first step is to have a conversation about what would be transformational for your group.
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Speaking Inquiry
