Leadership That Keeps Good People
Chris Sund is President & COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare, and Nebula. He speaks to healthcare leaders about the part of the workforce crisis they actually control — how units are led, how people are developed, and why good staff leave managers rather than organizations.
Most Healthcare Leaders Were Promoted for Clinical Skill
The best nurse becomes the charge nurse. The strongest administrator gets the second building. Almost none of them were taught how to lead, and then they are handed a short-staffed unit and asked to fix retention. Chris speaks to that gap directly — the specific behaviors that decide whether someone stays another year, taught by an operator who had to learn them under pressure.
- Why people quit managers, not organizations — and what to do about it
- Stay conversations that surface problems before the resignation letter
- Developing the people already on your team instead of recruiting around them
- Recognition that works on a night shift, not just at the annual banquet
- Original research: 92% of professionals believe they are capable of more
Popular Programs for Healthcare Leaders
Every session is customized to your attendees, theme, and goals.
People Quit People, Not Companies
The retention keynote that reframes turnover as a teachable leadership skill.
You Are Capable of a Better Culture
The five research-backed drivers of a workplace clinicians do not want to leave.
The Power of Small Moments
How brief, ordinary interactions decide whether a team member stays or starts looking.
You Are Capable of More
The signature keynote on the gap between what a team delivers and what it could.
Healthcare Leadership Audiences Chris Serves
Related pages: Healthcare Keynote Speaker · Rural Healthcare Speaker · Employee Retention Speaker
What Healthcare Planners Ask
Is he a clinician?
No, and he does not pretend to be. Chris speaks to the leadership side — retention, culture, development, and keeping good people. He works alongside hospitals and health systems every day and builds every session around your attendees' realities.
Will it work for new and experienced leaders in one room?
Yes. The material is behavioral rather than positional, so a first-year charge nurse and a twenty-year administrator take away different applications of the same principles.
Is the content backed by data?
Yes — including the Untapped Potential Report, original research surveying 200+ professionals on unrealized potential and what workplaces do to unlock or waste it.
Keynote, workshop, or both?
Both. A general-session keynote plus a working breakout on stay conversations or recognition systems is the most requested format for leadership audiences.
You Are Capable of More
The bestselling book behind the keynotes — ten principles for closing the gap between what people are doing and what they are actually capable of. It is the framework your leaders hear on stage, in a form they can take back to their units.
Associations and health systems regularly pair a keynote with copies for attendees. Bulk pricing and signed editions are available.
He Built It Before He Taught It
Chris took Uniti Med from startup to one of the largest healthcare staffing firms in the country: 10x revenue growth, #3 fastest-growing in the Midwest on the Inc. Regionals, and a Fortune Best Workplaces award along the way.
He serves as Vice President of the NATHO board, is a Maxwell Leadership Certified speaker and coach, and founded the Amplify Speakers bureau. He writes for Inc. and is a Forbes Business Council member.
For a leadership audience, the credibility is in the scar tissue. Chris has run understaffed teams, lost people he could not afford to lose, and rebuilt culture while growing fast.
As Seen & Heard
Television, national business press, and the podcasts where Chris talks leadership, culture, and retention.
Stages I Have Spoken On
Where Healthcare Leaders Have Heard Chris
Leadership conferences and association events where Chris has taken the stage.
AHCA/NCAL ConventionNationalACHE Wisconsin ChapterWisconsinLeadingAge IllinoisIllinoisAOHP Annual ConferenceOccupational HealthColorado Health Care AssociationColoradoCrawford Memorial HospitalDenison, IAAlso heard on: Catalytic Leadership Podcast · Culture From the Heart · Definitive Healthcare Webinar · See all speaking engagements →
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