Oklahoma City keynote speaker for association, healthcare, and employer 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 Oklahoma associations, health systems, aerospace and energy employers, state agencies, and organizations across the metro.
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This city already proved that nothing dramatic works and everything incremental does.
Oklahoma City spent thirty years running the experiment that most organizations refuse to run on their own culture, and the result is sitting outside the window.
MAPS started in 1993 with a one-cent sales tax that voters approved on themselves. It was structured pay as you go, funded with cash rather than bonds, with a volunteer citizens oversight committee so people could watch it happen. Then voters renewed it. And renewed it again, through MAPS 2 in 2001, MAPS 3 in 2010, and MAPS 4 after that. Property values in the core districts doubled between 2009 and 2017 and billions in private investment followed.
Here is the part worth sitting with, and it comes from people who studied it. No single project did that. As one analysis put it, each project individually might not have transformed the city, but putting them together had a cumulative effect. A convention center did not fix Oklahoma City. A canal did not fix it. Thirty years of small visible things, funded honestly and never abandoned, fixed it.
Now hold that next to how retention actually gets handled in most organizations. Somebody wants the signature building. The engagement initiative with a name and a logo. The culture launch. The offsite that will finally change things. Those are the equivalent of hoping one arena rescues a downtown, and this city can tell you how that goes.
What worked here transfers exactly. Pay as you go, meaning do not promise your people a future you have not funded. Visible oversight, meaning let them see it is real rather than announced. And renewal, meaning you have to keep earning the mandate, because a thing you did once in 2019 is not a culture. It is a memory.
The discipline is boring and it compounds. That is the whole session, and Oklahoma City is the proof of concept.
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.
Small Things, Repeated
The material is built on habits a supervisor can sustain for years rather than initiatives that get launched and quietly dropped.
Regional Neighbor
Based in Nebraska with keynote work across the plains and midwest, and a straightforward trip to Oklahoma City.
Groups Chris speaks for.
Oklahoma City combines the state capital with the largest aerospace sustainment operation in the region and a substantial healthcare and energy base.
- Tinker Air Force Base, established in 1942 and Oklahoma’s largest single-site employer with somewhere in the range of twenty four to twenty six thousand military and civilian personnel, home to the Air Force Sustainment Center and the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex
- Aerospace and aviation employers, a sector supporting more than thirty eight thousand jobs across roughly two hundred sixty five firms, including the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, the largest trainer of air traffic controllers in the world
- OU Health with more than nine thousand employees, along with INTEGRIS Health, Mercy, and the region’s hospitals, for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- State of Oklahoma agencies, employing roughly thirty two thousand five hundred across the Greater Oklahoma City region, plus the City of Oklahoma City
- Energy employers including Devon Energy, Chesapeake, and OGE Energy, and the technology sector anchored by Paycom
- Oklahoma statewide associations in hospital, long-term care, municipal, and education sectors, which convene members in the capital
- The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Public Schools, and metro logistics and manufacturing employers
Oklahoma City employers who need it to stick.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, but the discipline of sustaining something applies across this economy.
Aerospace Sustainment and Depot Maintenance
Highly skilled civilian and military teams doing safety-critical work where consistency matters more than intensity.
State and Local Government
Agencies where leadership development happens through in-service days and where initiatives outlive or outlast administrations.
Energy
Employers whose workforce carries the memory of previous cycles and evaluates every new commitment against that memory.
Healthcare and Education
Systems and districts where the same recognition habits have to survive turnover in leadership.
Oklahoma City and metro venues.
- The Oklahoma City Convention Center and downtown hotel ballrooms for statewide association annual meetings
- The Oklahoma State Capitol and surrounding state office buildings for agency in-service and leadership sessions
- Tinker and aerospace facilities for shift-repeated crew and supervisor sessions
- OU Health, INTEGRIS, and Mercy campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- The University of Oklahoma and metro colleges for campus and staff programming
- Norman, Edmond, Moore, and Midwest City, with Tulsa for Oklahoma organizations that rotate their meeting location
Oklahoma City events Chris speaks at.
Association Conferences
Statewide association annual meetings, advocacy days, and general sessions, the format Chris works in most often.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Corporate and Operations Meetings
All-hands gatherings, safety kickoffs, shift meetings, and leadership summits.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development built on habits that survive past the launch.
Long-Term and Senior Care
Skilled nursing, assisted living, and continuing care conferences and in-service days.
HR and SHRM Chapter Events
Human resources conferences and chapter meetings on making engagement work stick.
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