Your Caregivers Work Alone. They Should Not Feel Alone.
Chris Sund is a home health and hospice speaker for state home care and hospice associations and agency leadership meetings. His sessions focus on caregiver retention and on recognition for field staff who spend their days in patients’ homes and rarely see their own leaders.
How Do You Retain Caregivers Who Rarely See Their Leaders?
A home health aide or hospice nurse can go a full week without seeing a manager. They drive between homes, work alone, handle hard moments with families, and file notes from the car. The recognition and support that happen naturally on a unit have to be built on purpose in the field.
Chris works on caregiver retention every day in healthcare staffing. His sessions give agency leaders practical ways to make field staff feel seen, supported and connected when the team is spread across a county.
- Recognition for people who never get applause
- Staying connected to field staff between visits
- The small moments with patients and families that define an agency
- Support that reaches caregivers working alone
- Retention habits that fit home care and hospice budgets
Proof: Senior Care and Post-Acute Stages
Chris has spoken on senior care and post-acute stages across the country, including the Iowa Health Care Association, Montana Health Care Association, Colorado Health Care Association, South Dakota Health Care Association, AHCA/NCAL and LeadingAge Illinois.
In November 2026 he speaks for Spring Living Retirement Communities in Playa del Carmen.
His topics are well researched, and he weaves in practical tips and real-life examples that make every session realistic and relatable.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice to every presentation, elevating the value he brings to every engagement.
I always have takeaways to put into action after Chris’ sessions. He cares deeply about uplifting the entire profession.
Programs for Home Health & Hospice Audiences
Every session is customized to your members, your setting and your year.
The Power of Small Moments
The everyday interactions in a patient’s home that shape how families remember your agency.
The Spark Advantage
SPARK, the five drivers that decide whether caregivers stay: support, purpose, appreciation, relationships, and knowledge and growth.
Employee Retention
Why people stay in demanding work, and what leaders do differently when the team is spread across the field.
Formats
Each program runs as a keynote, a half-day workshop or a full-day workshop.
Keynote
A general-session keynote for the full room, with stories and one framework attendees can use on the next shift.
Half Day
The keynote content plus working time: leaders apply the framework to their own teams and leave with a written plan.
Full Day
A leadership day built around your agenda, combining the keynote, applied sessions and planning time for a leadership group.
Who Books This Session
Related pages: Senior Care Speaker · Long-Term Care Speaker · Recognition for People Who Never Get Applause · Nurse Retention Strategies
What Home Care and Hospice Planners Ask
Does the content fit home-based care, not just facilities?
Yes. The session is built around caregivers who work alone in patients’ homes and see their managers rarely. Chris asks about your agency structure before the event so the examples match field work, not a unit.
Which senior care audiences has Chris worked with?
State health care associations in Iowa, Montana, Colorado and South Dakota, AHCA/NCAL and LeadingAge Illinois, and Spring Living Retirement Communities in November 2026. See all speaking engagements.
Can the session serve leaders and caregivers in the same room?
Yes. Leaders get the retention and recognition practices; caregivers get recognition and renewal. Association conferences bring both, and the session is built for it.
What formats are available?
A keynote, a half-day workshop or a full-day workshop. Agency leadership meetings often book the half day so managers leave with a plan for staying connected to field staff.
Can Chris keynote a caregiver appreciation event?
Yes. Recognition events are a natural fit, and the message is built to honor caregivers while giving them something to take back to the field.
You Are Capable of More
The bestselling book behind the keynote, and the 2026 Paris Book Festival winner in the How-To category. Ten principles for closing the gap between what a team is producing and what it is actually capable of.
Agencies and associations regularly pair the keynote with copies for caregivers. Bulk pricing and signed editions are available.
He Works the Caregiver Shortage Daily
Chris is President & COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare and Nebula. He has spent the past decade in healthcare staffing, building Uniti Med from startup to one of the largest healthcare staffing companies in the US: 10x revenue growth on the core brand, #3 on the Inc. Regionals list of the fastest-growing companies in the Midwest, and a Fortune Best Workplaces award along the way.
Staffing is a retention business. Every week he sees why clinicians and caregivers take a job, and why they leave one. That is the material he brings to the stage, not theory borrowed from somewhere else.
He is the bestselling author of You Are Capable of More, a Maxwell Leadership Certified coach, an Inc. contributor and a Forbes Business Council member.
Stages I Have Spoken On
Where Senior Care and Post-Acute Audiences Have Heard Chris
Senior care, long-term care and post-acute association stages.
Iowa Health Care AssociationDes Moines, IAMontana Health Care AssociationBillings, MTColorado Health Care AssociationDenver, COSouth Dakota Health Care AssociationSouth DakotaAHCA/NCALNationalLeadingAge IllinoisChicago, IL
Spring Living Retirement CommunitiesPlaya del Carmen · Nov 2026Also: Senior Care Speaker · Long-Term Care Speaker · Recognition for People Who Never Get Applause · See all speaking engagements →
Bring Chris to Your Home Care or Hospice Event
Tell Chris about your association or agency and what your caregivers are carrying this year. You’ll get a fast, straight answer on fit and availability.
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