Aurora keynote speaker for healthcare, defense, 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 Colorado associations, academic health systems, defense employers, school districts, and organizations across the Denver metro.
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You are responsible for a team, and a good number of them do not work for you.
Aurora contains one of the clearest examples in the country of a problem nearly every leader now has, which is leading people whose paychecks come from somewhere else.
The Anschutz Medical Campus is the largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region, built on the grounds of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. On one campus sit UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and health professional schools, and the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, together handling millions of patient visits a year. Around it are Buckley Space Force Base, Aurora Public Schools and Cherry Creek Schools, the City of Aurora, and a substantial defense and aerospace sector.
Walk a hallway there and you pass people wearing different badges who work side by side all day. A hospital employee, a university faculty member, a federal employee, a contracted service worker, a travel clinician, and a vendor technician can all be part of what a patient experiences in a single visit, while sitting inside four or five separate organizations with different pay scales, different HR policies, different holidays, and different bosses.
The patient does not see any of that, and neither does the outcome. But the org chart does, and that is where things break. Recognition programs stop at the badge line. Team meetings quietly exclude the contractor. Information gets shared with employees and not with the people doing the same work beside them. Nobody decides to do this, it simply follows from how the structures are drawn.
Which makes a specific skill valuable here and increasingly everywhere. Leading people you do not employ, and cannot pay, promote, or discipline, comes down to what has always mattered most anyway. Whether you learned their name. Whether you include them by default rather than by exception. Whether you defend their work when someone from your organization dismisses it because of the badge.
Chris runs national healthcare staffing organizations, which means he places people into exactly this situation constantly and hears from both the host organization and the person walking in wearing the other badge.
He has keynoted state association conferences in eleven states, including LeadingAge Illinois and health care associations in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, and Iowa.
Operator, Not Consultant
President and COO of national healthcare staffing organizations, working across organizational lines every day.
Spoken in Colorado
The Power of Small Moments at the Colorado Health Care Association conference, along with conferences across eleven states.
Academic, Federal, and District Rooms
Works for an academic medical center leadership day, a federal or defense workforce session, or a district convocation.
Groups Chris speaks for.
Aurora holds the region’s academic medical campus alongside major federal, defense, and education employers.
- UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital Colorado, for nurse leadership, all-staff, and recognition events
- The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and its health professional schools, for faculty, staff, and academic leadership programming
- The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center and its clinical and support workforce
- Buckley Space Force Base and its civilian workforce, along with regional defense and aerospace contractors
- Aurora Public Schools and Cherry Creek School District, for convocation and staff development days
- The City of Aurora, including public safety and municipal departments
- Colorado statewide associations meeting in Aurora and across the metro, the format Chris works in most often
Aurora employers sharing a workplace with other employers.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, and it mixes employers on a single unit more than any other sector.
Academic Medical Centers
Hospitals, universities, and federal facilities whose staff work together and report separately.
Contracted and Travel Staffing
Clinicians and support workers doing the same job on entirely different terms.
Defense and Federal Sites
Installations where civilian employees, service members, and contractors share every project.
Facilities, Food Service, and Environmental
Vendor teams essential to the operation and routinely left out of it.
Aurora and Denver metro venues.
- Anschutz Medical Campus facilities for clinical, academic, and all-staff leadership days
- UCHealth, Children’s Colorado, and VA campuses for nurse leadership and recognition events
- Hotel and conference facilities across Aurora and the metro for statewide association meetings
- Base and contractor facilities for civilian workforce sessions
- District auditoriums for convocation and staff development days
- Denver, Centennial, Parker, and communities across the metro
Aurora events Chris speaks at.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Association Conferences
Statewide and national association annual meetings, the format Chris works in most often.
Engagement Across Organizations
Sessions on leading and including people who work beside you for a different employer.
Nurse Leadership
Charge nurse and manager development for units running staff, contract, and academic personnel together.
School and District Events
Convocation, back to school days, and staff development for districts and campuses.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for mixed teams with different rules and the same work.
Keynote topics for your Aurora event.
Every session is customized for the audience, the format, and what you are actually trying to change.
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Booking a keynote speaker in Aurora
Has Chris spoken in Colorado?
Does Chris travel to Aurora?
Half our unit works for another organization. Can a keynote reach all of them?
How do you lead someone you cannot pay or promote?
Can the session reach multiple sites and shifts?
What does an Aurora keynote cost?
Can Chris speak virtually to a Colorado audience?
Keynote speaking across the Front Range.
Each city page covers the local employers, the venues Chris speaks in, and the specific workforce pressure leaders there are working on.
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