San Francisco keynote speaker for healthcare, corporate, 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 California associations, health systems, corporate employers, and organizations across the Bay Area.
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Half your workforce is debating three days or four. The other half was never in that conversation.
No American city split its workforce as cleanly as San Francisco did, and most organizations here have not said out loud what that did to the people who could not participate.
San Francisco carries the highest office vacancy rate in the country, in the range of thirty six to thirty seven percent, up from roughly five percent before the pandemic. Its office workers return to their desks less than those of any other top ten metro. Salesforce is the city’s largest private employer and has spent years adjusting badge requirements. The city government itself has been pushing its own staff back in. Meanwhile UCSF is the second largest employer in San Francisco with more than twenty four thousand people, Kaiser and the region’s other systems employ tens of thousands more, and none of those nurses, techs, therapists, transport staff, custodians, food service workers or security officers were ever part of the flexibility conversation, because their work happens inside a building.
That produces something corrosive and largely invisible to leadership. A nurse who commutes an hour each way, on a schedule set by somebody else, watches colleagues at the same employer negotiate whether coming in four days a week is unreasonable. She is not going to say anything about it in an engagement survey. She is going to notice, and quietly revise her opinion of whether this organization’s stated values were written with her in mind.
The specific leadership failure here is describing flexibility as a company value when it is structurally available to only part of the company. Everyone on the frontline can see the arithmetic.
The alternative is not to take flexibility away from people who have it. It is to name the asymmetry honestly and then deliberately buy back some control for the people who cannot have that kind, through schedule predictability, real input into when they work, and swap and self-scheduling systems that actually function. Control over your own time is the thing being distributed unequally here. Some of it can be given back in another currency, but only by a leader willing to admit the gap exists.
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 scheduling and retention calls he speaks about.
Onsite Workforces
Material for the people whose jobs were never remote, and for the leaders who need to address that without pretending otherwise.
Clinical and Corporate
Works for a hospital leadership day or a corporate all-hands, and for organizations trying to speak to both at once.
Groups Chris speaks for.
San Francisco combines a global technology and financial sector with major academic medicine and a large public workforce.
- UCSF and UCSF Health, the city’s second largest employer with more than twenty four thousand people, for nurse leadership, all-staff, and recognition events
- Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, Dignity Health, and the region’s hospitals, across the city and the wider Bay Area
- Technology and corporate employers including Salesforce, the city’s largest private employer, and the financial services firms across the Financial District, for all-hands gatherings and leadership summits
- City and County of San Francisco departments, for agency in-service and leadership development days
- National and statewide associations holding annual meetings at Moscone and the city’s conference hotels, the format Chris works in most often
- Long-term care, home care, and behavioral health providers serving the city and the Bay Area
- Hospitality, transit, and retail employers whose workforces never left the building
San Francisco employers on both sides of the split.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, and it sits squarely on the side of this divide that gets talked about least.
Hospitals and Clinical Teams
Staff whose presence is the job, working alongside administrative colleagues who may rarely appear on site.
Technology and Financial Services
Employers navigating return to office policy while their own facilities, security and support staff have no such choice.
Hospitality, Retail, and Transit
Frontline workforces most affected by the drop in downtown foot traffic and least consulted about it.
Public Sector
City departments where the same asymmetry exists across job classifications and is felt keenly.
San Francisco and Bay Area venues.
- Moscone Center and downtown hotel ballrooms for national and statewide association annual meetings
- UCSF, Kaiser, Sutter, and Dignity campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- Corporate offices across the Financial District, SoMa, and Mission Bay for all-hands and leadership summits
- City and county facilities for agency in-service sessions
- Oakland, San Jose, and the Peninsula for organizations with multiple Bay Area sites
- Sessions repeated across shifts so nights and weekends are included
San Francisco events Chris speaks at.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for onsite workforces inside organizations that also employ remote staff.
Association Conferences
National and statewide association annual meetings and general sessions, the format Chris works in most often.
Corporate and Leadership Summits
All-hands gatherings, kickoffs, and leadership meetings.
Nurse Leadership
Charge nurse and manager development, with a focus on schedule control and predictability.
Long-Term and Senior Care
Skilled nursing, assisted living, and continuing care conferences and in-service days.
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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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