Irving keynote speaker for corporate, 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, headquarters employers, health systems, and organizations across Las Colinas and the Metroplex.
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Most people here work for companies nobody outside the industry has heard of, doing work they can never point at.
Irving calls itself the headquarters of headquarters, and the particular kind of company it attracts creates a specific motivational problem.
The city holds more headquarters per capita than anywhere else in Texas, with global headquarters for McKesson, Caterpillar, Kimberly-Clark, Fluor, Vistra Energy, Celanese, Commercial Metals, Builders FirstSource, and Pioneer Natural Resources, plus Michaels, Darling Ingredients, Nexstar, and Flowserve. CHRISTUS Health is headquartered here. Add major operations for AT&T, Allstate, Citigroup, Boeing, Verizon, Microsoft, Envoy Air, Frito-Lay, and Keurig Dr Pepper, across roughly ten thousand businesses, in what is regularly ranked among the most culturally diverse cities in the country.
Look at what most of those companies actually do. Distribute pharmaceuticals. Engineer and build infrastructure. Generate electricity. Produce chemicals. Recycle steel. Supply building materials. These are enormous, essential businesses, and almost none of them make something an employee can hold up at a family dinner and say I helped make that.
People need to see who they help. It is not sentimentality, it is one of the most reliable sources of durable motivation there is, and business to business work quietly removes it. A person can spend a decade on spreadsheets, contracts, and logistics that matter enormously without once encountering the human being at the other end.
Which makes line of sight a leadership responsibility rather than an accident. It does not happen on its own in these companies, so somebody has to build it. Show the hospital that received the shipment. Show the plant your engineers designed, running. Show the neighborhood that kept power through the storm. Name the customer, with details, regularly, and connect specific work to it rather than gesturing at a mission statement.
The version of this that most impresses a skeptical room is simple. Bring in someone from the other end and let them talk for ten minutes. Almost nobody does it, and the people who have sat through it remember it for years.
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, still making the hiring and retention calls he speaks about.
Line of Sight to Impact
Material for business to business organizations whose people never meet the person their work reaches.
Corporate, Clinical, and Association Rooms
Works for a headquarters all-hands, a health system leadership day, or a statewide association general session.
Groups Chris speaks for.
Irving-Las Colinas holds one of the densest concentrations of corporate headquarters in the country.
- McKesson, Caterpillar, Kimberly-Clark, Fluor, Vistra Energy, and Celanese, headquartered in Las Colinas, for corporate all-hands and leadership summits
- CHRISTUS Health, headquartered in Irving, and Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Irving, for nurse leadership and all-staff events
- Commercial Metals, Builders FirstSource, Darling Ingredients, Flowserve, and Michaels, across industrial and consumer headquarters
- AT&T, Allstate, Citigroup, Boeing, Verizon, and Microsoft, among the region’s largest operations
- Envoy Air and the DFW Airport employers, for operations and shift-based sessions
- Irving ISD, the City of Irving, and the University of Dallas, for staff development and campus programming
- Texas statewide and national associations meeting in Las Colinas, the format Chris works in most often
Irving employers whose customers are other companies.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, and much of it is invisible to the patient too.
Distribution and Supply Chain
Companies moving essential goods whose employees never see the destination.
Engineering, Energy, and Chemicals
Firms whose products end up inside something else, credited to someone else.
Healthcare Corporate and Shared Services
Teams supporting clinicians they never meet, in service of patients they never see.
Financial and Professional Services
Back-office work that is essential, invisible, and rarely connected to an outcome.
Irving and Metroplex venues.
- Las Colinas corporate campuses and conference centers for all-hands and leadership summits
- Irving Convention Center and hotel ballrooms for statewide and national association meetings
- Baylor Scott and White Irving and area clinical campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- Airport and airline operations facilities for shift-based sessions
- Irving ISD facilities and the University of Dallas for staff and campus programming
- Dallas, Grapevine, Coppell, Grand Prairie, and communities across the Metroplex
Irving events Chris speaks at.
Corporate and Headquarters All-Hands
Company meetings, kickoffs, and leadership summits across the region’s headquarters employers.
Association Conferences
Statewide and national association annual meetings, the format Chris works in most often.
Engagement and Purpose
Sessions on connecting people to the human being at the other end of the work.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Annual and Kickoff Meetings
Company-wide gatherings and sales kickoffs across the corporate corridor.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for teams whose contribution is hard to see from the inside.
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Every session is customized for the audience, the format, and what you are actually trying to change.
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