Nashville keynote speaker for healthcare company, association, and corporate 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 healthcare companies headquartered in Nashville, national associations, health systems, and employers across Middle Tennessee.
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Four hundred healthcare companies here never touch a patient. That is the whole leadership problem.
Middle Tennessee holds more than nine hundred healthcare companies. Roughly five hundred of them provide care. The other four hundred provide the services that make care possible, and Nashville adds close to four hundred professional service firms on top of that. Healthcare is the region’s largest employer with better than one hundred sixty seven thousand direct jobs.
Consider what those organizations actually control. HCA, founded here in 1968, is the largest for-profit hospital operator in the country with roughly thirty five million patient encounters a year, more than any health system in America. More than half the beds in American for-profit hospitals are managed out of this region. LifePoint runs eighty eight hospitals across twenty nine states. Acadia is the largest behavioral healthcare provider in the country. Brookdale houses tens of thousands of residents across hundreds of communities. Surgery Partners operates roughly one hundred eighty facilities.
Which means the decisions that shape a night shift in a hospital in Idaho are made in an office park in Middle Tennessee, by someone who will never see that shift and has probably never met anyone on it.
Most of those people chose healthcare on purpose. A parent who got sick. A nurse in the family. A belief that this particular industry matters more than selling software. Then the actual job turned out to be a staffing model, a denial code, a dashboard, a quarterly review. The distance between why they came and what they do all day is where disengagement lives in this city, and it is almost invisible from outside, because on paper they have a good job in a growing industry.
The leader’s task in a Nashville healthcare company is unglamorous and specific. Keep the line visible between somebody’s Tuesday and an actual patient. Not as a poster in a hallway. Concretely, in a meeting, out loud. This model you built means a charge nurse in Boise has one more person on nights. Very few corporate healthcare leaders ever say that sentence, and their teams slowly forget they are in healthcare at all.
Chris runs national healthcare staffing organizations, which is exactly this kind of company, and has keynoted state association conferences in eleven states including LeadingAge Illinois and health care associations in Iowa, Montana, South Dakota, and Colorado.
He Runs One of These
President and COO of national healthcare staffing organizations, a corporate healthcare business whose decisions land on floors he does not stand on.
Both Sides of the Line
Regular work with hospital and long-term care clients as well as corporate teams, which is the connection most Nashville companies struggle to make.
Corporate and Conference Formats
Works as a company all-hands, a leadership summit, or an association general session.
Groups Chris speaks for.
Nashville is the corporate capital of American healthcare, which makes it a market for company leadership events as well as for the association and provider work Chris does everywhere else.
- Healthcare companies headquartered in Middle Tennessee, including HCA Healthcare, Community Health Systems, LifePoint Health, Acadia Healthcare, Ardent Health Services, Surgery Partners, and Brookdale Senior Living, for all-hands gatherings and leadership summits
- Healthcare services and technology firms across revenue cycle, analytics, workforce, and digital health, plus the region’s healthcare professional services community
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the region’s academic anchor with a workforce above forty thousand, along with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital and Ascension Saint Thomas
- Nashville Health Care Council and the industry’s convening organizations, whose membership spans more than three hundred companies
- Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt’s schools, giving the region two medical schools and a deep clinical education pipeline
- National associations holding annual meetings in Nashville, the format Chris works in most often
- Tennessee statewide hospital, long-term care, and education associations convening in the capital
Nashville employers with the same distance problem.
Healthcare defines this city, but the gap between a desk and the person it affects is not unique to it.
Healthcare Corporate and Shared Services
Revenue cycle, coding, analytics, and support teams whose work reaches patients through several layers of abstraction.
Health Systems and Providers
Vanderbilt, Ascension Saint Thomas, and the region’s hospitals, where the clinical side needs a different session than the corporate side.
Music, Media, and Hospitality
The industries Nashville is better known for, running large frontline and creative workforces in a fast-growing city.
Higher Education and Public Sector
Vanderbilt, Meharry, Belmont, Lipscomb, Metro Nashville Public Schools, and state government.
Nashville and Middle Tennessee venues.
- Music City Center and downtown hotel ballrooms for national association annual meetings and general sessions
- Corporate headquarters and campuses across Nashville, Brentwood, and Franklin for all-hands and leadership summits
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ascension Saint Thomas campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- Gaylord Opryland and the resort conference properties used for large corporate and association meetings
- Vanderbilt, Meharry, Belmont, and Lipscomb for campus and staff programming
- Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, and Middle Tennessee, with Memphis and Knoxville for Tennessee organizations that rotate their meeting location
Nashville events Chris speaks at.
Healthcare Company All-Hands and Summits
Company-wide gatherings, leadership meetings, and kickoffs for headquartered healthcare organizations.
Association Conferences
National and statewide association annual meetings and general sessions, the format Chris works in most often.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Long-Term and Senior Care
Skilled nursing, assisted living, and continuing care conferences and in-service days.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for corporate teams and for the field operations they support.
HR and SHRM Chapter Events
Human resources conferences and chapter meetings on engagement in fast-growing organizations.
Keynote topics for your Nashville event.
Every session is customized for the audience, the format, and what you are actually trying to change.
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