Colorado Springs 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, health systems, defense and technology employers, and organizations across the Pikes Peak region.
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No coach at the training center would design the program most organizations run their people on.
Colorado Springs is home to two institutions that understand sustained performance better than almost anyone, and both of them reach the same conclusion that most employers ignore.
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has been headquartered here since 1978, and the training center sits on the grounds of a former Air Force base, with a sports science laboratory, a velodrome, pools, gyms, and dormitories where athletes like Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky have trained. The military is the region’s largest employer, spanning Fort Carson with the 4th Infantry Division and 10th Special Forces Group, Peterson and Schriever Space Force Bases, the Air Force Academy, and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. UCHealth Memorial, Penrose, Children’s Hospital Colorado, UCCS, Vectrus, Oracle, and a substantial defense contracting sector fill out the rest.
Here is what elite sport actually knows. Nobody performs at peak continuously. Training is periodized on purpose, building load, then peaking, then tapering, then genuinely recovering, because recovery is not a pause in the work, it is part of the work. An athlete who never comes down does not stay at the top, they break. The military organizes itself the same way, around train, deploy, and reset.
Now compare that to how most organizations treat people. Maximum intensity year round, every quarter a push, every initiative urgent, and the phrase we are just really busy right now used continuously for several years. Then when someone finally comes apart, it gets treated as a personal failing rather than the predictable result of a program nobody would design for an athlete.
The practical version is not a wellness initiative. It is scheduling. After the go-live, the survey visit, the deployment, the season, plan the lighter period deliberately and then actually protect it when something else comes up, which it always will. Recovery that only happens when nothing is going on never happens.
There is a hard-edged argument for this too, which usually lands better with skeptical leaders. An organization running at maximum has nothing left for an actual emergency. Capacity you never build is capacity you will not have on the day you need it.
Chris runs national healthcare staffing organizations and 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, still making the hiring and retention calls he speaks about.
Spoken in Colorado
Keynote work for a Colorado health care association, along with conferences across eleven states.
Clinical, Base, and Corporate Rooms
Works for a hospital leadership day, a civilian defense workforce session, or an association general session.
Groups Chris speaks for.
The Pikes Peak region combines the country’s largest concentration of military commands with a growing health care and technology sector.
- UCHealth Memorial Hospital, Penrose-St. Francis, and Children’s Hospital Colorado, for nurse leadership, all-staff, and recognition events
- Fort Carson, including Evans Army Community Hospital, along with Peterson and Schriever Space Force Bases and their civilian workforces
- The United States Air Force Academy and the defense contractors across the region
- The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the sports medicine and performance community around it
- The University of Colorado Colorado Springs and area school districts, for campus and staff development days
- Vectrus, Oracle, and the region’s technology and cybersecurity employers
- Colorado statewide associations meeting in Colorado Springs, the format Chris works in most often
Colorado Springs employers running people hard.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, and it has run at surge intensity for years without a planned recovery.
Hospitals and Health Systems
Clinical teams who never got the trough after the peak and are still waiting for it.
Defense and Government Contracting
Programs with continuous deadlines and no natural off season.
Technology and Cybersecurity
Teams on permanent alert, where quiet periods get filled rather than protected.
Education and Public Safety
Workforces whose demand cycles are real and whose recovery time is theoretical.
Colorado Springs and regional venues.
- Broadmoor and downtown hotel conference facilities for statewide association annual meetings
- UCHealth Memorial, Penrose, and Children’s campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- Base and contractor facilities for civilian workforce and program sessions
- The University of Colorado Colorado Springs for campus and staff programming
- Corporate and technology offices across the region for all-hands meetings
- Monument, Fountain, Pueblo, and communities across southern Colorado
Colorado Springs events Chris speaks at.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Association Conferences
Statewide association annual meetings and general sessions, the format Chris works in most often.
Engagement and Sustainable Performance
Sessions on building recovery into the schedule rather than hoping for it.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for teams that have been running at maximum for years.
Sports and Athletic Banquets
Team banquets and athletic department events in a city built around performance.
Corporate and Program All-Hands
Company meetings, kickoffs, and leadership summits across the region’s employers.
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