Pittsburgh keynote speaker for healthcare, technology, 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 Pennsylvania associations, health systems, technology and manufacturing employers, and organizations across western Pennsylvania.
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This is the city building the machines, and the city that already knows what happens when the work changes.
Almost nowhere else holds both of those facts at once, and it should make Pittsburgh’s leaders the least naive in the country about workforce change.
Carnegie Mellon’s robotics institute is the origin point for Aurora Innovation, Carnegie Robotics, Astrobotic and dozens of companies operating here now, and the National Robotics Engineering Center has been running real-world field deployments since 2000. Google and Amazon put operations here specifically for that talent. At the same time UPMC is the largest non-governmental employer in western Pennsylvania with more than sixty three thousand people across forty hospitals and eight hundred outpatient sites, and Highmark Health adds close to twenty six thousand more across Allegheny Health Network and its subsidiaries as the second largest integrated delivery and financing system in the country. Pitt employs above fourteen thousand. PNC, BNY Mellon, Giant Eagle and U.S. Steel fill out a metro workforce of more than a million.
And this is the same city where an entire industry ended inside living memory. Plenty of the people now working in a UPMC scheduling office or a robotics lab had a grandfather in the mills.
That history is an asset, and most organizations here waste it. The lesson of the steel era was never that the technology was the villain. It was that people were told nothing until the decision had already been made, and by the time anyone offered retraining the community had already absorbed the damage. The failure was one of timing and honesty, not of machinery.
Which gives a Pittsburgh leader a specific obligation as automation reaches scheduling, documentation, revenue cycle, logistics and the plant floor. Say what is uncertain while it is still uncertain. Invest in what people could become next before it becomes urgent rather than after. And resist the reassurance that nothing will change, because in this city nobody believes that sentence and saying it costs you the room.
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.
Change Without Reassurance
Material for leaders who cannot promise stability and have to keep people engaged honestly anyway.
Clinical, Technical, and Plant Rooms
Works for a health system leadership day, an engineering all-hands, or a shift-repeated crew session.
Groups Chris speaks for.
Pittsburgh combines one of the country’s largest health systems with a world-leading robotics and AI research base.
- UPMC, western Pennsylvania’s largest non-governmental employer with more than sixty three thousand people across forty hospitals and eight hundred outpatient sites, including the busiest transplant center in the world and a cancer network spanning four states
- Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network, with roughly twenty six thousand employees across a fourteen-hospital integrated delivery network
- University of Pittsburgh with above fourteen thousand employees, and Carnegie Mellon University, whose robotics and computer science programs anchor the region’s technology base
- Robotics and autonomous systems companies including Aurora, Carnegie Robotics and Astrobotic, along with the technology operations that located here for the talent
- Financial services and corporate employers including PNC, BNY Mellon, Giant Eagle, U.S. Steel and PPG Industries
- Pennsylvania statewide associations in hospital, long-term care, municipal, and education sectors, which convene members in Pittsburgh
- Allegheny County government, regional school districts, and long-term care providers across western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh employers facing the next transition.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, and it is where automation is arriving fastest in this region.
Health Systems
Scheduling, documentation, coding and revenue cycle teams where technology is changing the work faster than anyone is explaining it.
Robotics and Technology
Engineering organizations building the systems, whose own people face rapid change in what their skills are worth.
Manufacturing and Energy
Plants and suppliers carrying the region’s industrial history and its expectations about how change gets handled.
Financial Services and Higher Education
Operations and administrative teams where automation reaches quietly and early.
Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania venues.
- The David L. Lawrence Convention Center and downtown hotel ballrooms for statewide and national association meetings
- UPMC and Allegheny Health Network campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- Corporate and research campuses across downtown, Oakland, and the Strip District for all-hands and leadership summits
- Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh for campus, faculty, and staff programming
- Manufacturing and plant sites for shift-repeated crew sessions
- Cranberry Township, Monroeville, and the surrounding counties
Pittsburgh events Chris speaks at.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings across one of the country’s largest systems.
Association Conferences
Statewide and national association annual meetings and general sessions, the format Chris works in most often.
Corporate and Technology All-Hands
Company gatherings, leadership summits, and kickoffs for technology, financial services, and manufacturing employers.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for organizations whose work is being changed by technology.
Long-Term and Senior Care
Skilled nursing, assisted living, and continuing care conferences and in-service days.
University and Student Leadership
Campus leadership programming, student organization events, and staff development.
Keynote topics for your Pittsburgh event.
Every session is customized for the audience, the format, and what you are actually trying to change.
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