Look After The People Who Care The Most.
Wellbeing days and wellness conferences, all-staff sessions, healthcare and caregiver events, manager development, and recognition programs.
The people who answer at nine at night, cover the shift nobody else will, and carry what nobody asked them to carry are your best asset. Looking after them is leadership work, not a wellness budget. Chris Sund speaks to what leaders can genuinely change, without pretending a keynote fixes an understaffed department, and without handing a room a breathing exercise as an answer to a workload problem.
Being seen by your leader does more for a tired team than any wellness program.
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An exhausted room can tell within a minute whether a speaker understands their week or is about to sell them gratitude journaling. Send a clip and let people judge. Chris has been on morning television in six markets and in Forbes, Inc., and the Midlands Business Journal, all collected in the media hub.
Five things a tired room can actually use.
No clinical content, no diagnosis, no wellness app. This is the leadership and workload side of burnout, which is where most of it starts and where an organization has real control.
On what the burnout session is about
- It is your best people, not your weakest. The ones covering shifts, answering late, and holding standards nobody enforces. Naming that from the stage lands hard, because the room already knows exactly who it is.
- Recognition is not a program. It is somebody noticing the specific thing you did, close to when you did it. Cheap, fast, and the single most protective thing a manager can do. More here.
- What managers can and cannot fix. A supervisor cannot change your staffing model. They can change whether somebody feels seen, gets developed, and hears the truth. Being clear about which is which stops good managers carrying guilt for things above their pay grade.
- Permission to say it is heavy. Most workplaces reward pretending. A room where somebody senior says the work is hard, out loud, changes what people feel able to admit to each other afterwards.
- One move, not a program. Every session closes on a single specific action, small enough that somebody already stretched thin can actually do it.
Eight ways organizations book this session.
The pairing that works best is an all-staff session plus one for managers, because most of what protects a team is decided by the person directly above them.
All-Staff Wellbeing Session
The whole organization. Honest about the workload rather than pretending resilience is a personal failing.Wellness Day or Conference
General session at a wellbeing day, wellness conference, or employee health event.Manager & Supervisor Session
What the person directly above someone can actually do, and what is not theirs to fix.Healthcare & Caregiver Event
Nurses, clinical staff, and caregivers. See Nurses Week speaking.Recognition & Appreciation Event
Appreciation weeks and awards nights, where the message is that the work was seen. Recognition events.Association Conference Keynote
General session where workforce fatigue is the theme of the year.Take Back Your Time With AI
The practical version. Teams offload the admin eating their evenings, which is workload relief rather than a coping tip. Full details.Conference Breakouts
Repeatable concurrent sessions alongside a general session at a conference or association event.Built for the people running on empty.
The framework holds across all of them. What changes is who is in the room and what they are going back to.
Hospitals & Health Systems
Clinical and support staff carrying years of short staffing. See healthcare speaking and behavioral health speaking.Nursing & Caregiving
Nurses Week, caregiver appreciation, and clinical leadership events. See nurse leadership.Senior & Long-Term Care
Care teams doing emotionally heavy work at high turnover. See senior care speaking.First Responders
Dispatch, fire, EMS, and law enforcement. See first responder speaking.Education & Schools
Teachers and staff at in-service and convocation. See teacher in-service speaking.HR & People Teams
The function absorbing everyone else's difficulty and rarely getting a session of its own. See HR conference speaking.Nonprofit & Social Services
Mission-driven teams where caring deeply is the job description. See nonprofit speaking.Contact Centers & Frontline
Teams absorbing customer frustration all day, every day.Shift & Field Workforces
Manufacturing, trucking, utilities, and trades running long hours and thin crews.Four movements. Ten principles.
Every session runs the same architecture as the book, which is what lets an all-staff session and a manager session land as one message rather than two.
The Foundation
Ownership and time. What is inside your control when the workload, the vacancies, and the schedule are not.The Breakthrough
The comfort ceiling and the inner voice. The section people who have been quietly struggling go still for.The Standard
Truth over praise, and the hidden gear. Saying it is heavy, and what a team does once somebody finally has.The Purpose
Finishing, and leaving people better. The close, and reconnecting people to why this work was worth it.Something to take home after a hard year.
A session gives a room an hour. A copy is a common giveaway at appreciation events, because it lasts longer than a lanyard and says the organization put something real behind the message.
You Are Capable of More: A No-Excuses Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. An Amazon bestseller from Game Changer Publishing, with a foreword by Ben Newman.
Ten chapters across four movements, written plainly and short enough that somebody with nothing left at the end of a shift will still finish it. The free companion toolkit includes a discussion guide, a self-assessment, and a thirty day challenge. Nothing is gated behind an email address.
The feedback speaks for itself.
Chris was an outstanding speaker and a highlight of our event. He took the time to deeply understand our organization and thoughtfully personalized every moment.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice. He led two impactful sessions and left everyone with tools they could use immediately.
His engaging style draws the audience into the conversation, creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages learning and reflection. You leave not only inspired but equipped.
Chris is a thoughtful, intentional leader who understands the influence he carries. His message challenged me to think differently about how I lead, serve, and influence others.
Chris would be an incredible addition to any live audience. Each time he finds a unique way to connect on both a personal and professional level, keeping everyone engaged and attentive.
Chris was an outstanding speaker and a highlight of our event. He took the time to deeply understand our organization and thoughtfully personalized every moment.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice. He led two impactful sessions and left everyone with tools they could use immediately.
His engaging style draws the audience into the conversation, creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages learning and reflection. You leave not only inspired but equipped.
Chris is a thoughtful, intentional leader who understands the influence he carries. His message challenged me to think differently about how I lead, serve, and influence others.
Chris would be an incredible addition to any live audience. Each time he finds a unique way to connect on both a personal and professional level, keeping everyone engaged and attentive.
Events already on your calendar.
He led through the years that emptied people.
Chris Sund is the bestselling author of You Are Capable of More, a keynote speaker, and an executive leader.
As President and COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare and Nebula, he helped grow Uniti Med 10x in revenue in two years and earn the number three ranking on the Inc. Regionals list among the fastest growing companies in the Midwest, while the organization earned Fortune Best Workplaces recognition and Great Place to Work certification three years running.
He is a father of three, based in Nebraska, a Maxwell Leadership Certified speaker, trainer, and coach, Vice President of the NATHO Board of Directors, and the founder of Amplify Speakers. He is not a clinician, a therapist, or a mental health professional, and he says so from the stage. What he brings is two decades of staffing healthcare through its hardest years, and a plain conversation about what leaders can actually change.
Details your committee will ask for.
HR leaders and wellbeing committees ask these.
Is this a clinical or mental health session?
Our staffing really is the problem. Will this just feel hollow?
How much does a burnout speaker cost?
Will it feel like we are blaming staff for not being resilient enough?
What should our managers take away?
Can this work for Nurses Week or an appreciation event?
Do you offer anything practical rather than just perspective?
Can we get books for the team?
How do we start?
Other ways organizations book him.
Same framework, built for the specific room you are filling.