Arlington keynote speaker for manufacturing, healthcare, and association events.
Chris Sund is a keynote speaker, Maxwell Leadership Certified Coach, and sitting executive who leads national healthcare staffing organizations. He speaks on workforce motivation, leadership, retention, and human potential for Texas associations, manufacturers, health systems, universities, and employers across the Metroplex.
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Your shift start time is a hiring requirement. You just never thought of it that way.
Arlington is built almost entirely around driving, and that turns something most employers never examine into a real constraint on who can work for them.
General Motors has assembled vehicles here since 1954, and Arlington Assembly now builds full-size SUVs on a two hundred fifty acre site with a workforce in the thousands. D.R. Horton is headquartered in the city, Bell Textron and JPMorgan Chase have significant operations, the University of Texas at Arlington and Arlington ISD employ thousands more, and Texas Health Arlington Memorial and Medical City Arlington anchor health care. The entertainment district brings the Rangers, the Cowboys, and Six Flags, along with the seasonal and event workforce that comes with them. Arlington has also long been among the largest cities in the country without a conventional fixed-route transit system, relying instead on on-demand service.
So consider a candidate without a reliable car. Your six in the morning shift, at a site with no bus running at that hour, is not a job they can take no matter how badly they want it. They will not tell you that. They simply will not apply, or they will take the job, struggle for three weeks, and leave, at which point the file says unreliable.
Transportation is one of the most common reasons people cannot keep a job, and one of the least examined by the people doing the hiring. Every shift start time, every site location, every last-minute overtime request is quietly an access decision, made by someone who has never had to think about how they personally get to work.
The practical version costs nothing. Ask new hires how they get here, and listen. Look at whether your start times line up with any service that actually runs. Coordinate schedules so that carpooling is possible instead of accidental. Be careful with surprise overtime, which is easy for a person with a car and impossible for someone whose ride leaves at five.
Employers who pay attention to this reach candidates their competitors never see, and keep people everyone else writes off. In a car-dependent city, that is a real advantage sitting in plain sight.
Chris runs national healthcare staffing organizations and has keynoted state association conferences in eleven states, including LeadingAge Illinois and health care associations in Iowa, Montana, South Dakota, and Colorado.
Operator, Not Consultant
President and COO of national healthcare staffing organizations, hiring hourly workforces constantly.
SIA Healthcare Staffing Summit
A panel on real-world innovation in healthcare staffing at Staffing Industry Analysts’ national summit.
Plant, Clinical, and Campus Rooms
Works for a manufacturing crew session, a hospital leadership day, or a university and association meeting.
Groups Chris speaks for.
Arlington combines major automotive manufacturing with health care, higher education, and a large entertainment district.
- General Motors Arlington Assembly and the region’s automotive suppliers, for shift-repeated crew and supervisor sessions
- Texas Health Arlington Memorial and Medical City Arlington, for nurse leadership, all-staff, and recognition events
- The University of Texas at Arlington and Tarrant County College, for campus and staff programming
- Arlington ISD, one of the largest districts in the Metroplex, for convocation and staff development days
- D.R. Horton, Bell Textron, and JPMorgan Chase, among the city’s largest corporate employers
- The entertainment district employers, including stadium, venue, and hospitality operations
- Texas statewide associations meeting in Arlington, the format Chris works in most often
Arlington employers whose people have to get there.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, and shift work makes transportation a constant hiring constraint.
Automotive and Manufacturing
Plants with fixed shift starts that many candidates cannot physically reach.
Healthcare
Hospitals running nights and weekends when almost nothing else is moving.
Hospitality and Venues
Event work that ends long after the last ride home would have run.
Education and Public Sector
Districts and departments with support staff working split or early schedules.
Arlington and Metroplex venues.
- Arlington convention and hotel facilities and the entertainment district for association meetings
- Manufacturing facilities for shift-repeated crew and supervisor sessions
- Texas Health and Medical City campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- The University of Texas at Arlington for campus and staff programming
- District auditoriums for convocation and staff development days
- Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Dallas, and communities across the Metroplex
Arlington events Chris speaks at.
Plant and Operations Meetings
Crew sessions, safety kickoffs, and supervisor development across manufacturing employers.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Recruiting and Onboarding
Sessions on the practical barriers that shrink your applicant pool before anyone applies.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for hourly teams where scheduling decides who can stay.
Association Conferences
Statewide association annual meetings and general sessions, the format Chris works in most often.
School and District Events
Convocation, back to school days, and staff development for districts and campuses.
Keynote topics for your Arlington event.
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Keynote speaking across the Metroplex.
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