St. Petersburg 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 Florida associations, health systems, headquarters employers, and organizations across Pinellas County and Tampa Bay.
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When the storm comes, most people leave. You ask some of your people to stay while their families go without them.
St. Petersburg sits on a peninsula, and that gives its essential employers a leadership situation that almost no other kind of organization ever faces.
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital anchors pediatric care here with thousands of medical professionals. HCA Florida hospitals and Orlando Health Bayfront serve the city alongside them. Raymond James Financial has been headquartered in St. Petersburg since its founding in the 1960s, Jabil runs a global manufacturing services business from here, Duke Energy Florida is based in the city, and Pinellas County Schools, USF St. Petersburg, and the city itself employ thousands more.
Hospitals do not evacuate the way everything else does. When a storm approaches, staff are designated to remain on site, and they do it while their own households are packing the car. A nurse rides out a hurricane at work while her husband drives their kids inland without her. She has no way to know what she is coming home to.
That is not a scheduling problem. It is the largest thing an employer can ask of a person, and organizations routinely treat it as a staffing spreadsheet. The people who say yes are choosing duty over being at their family’s side, and they mostly say yes, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
What separates the employers people stay with is what they plan for. Not just cots, water, and coverage in the building, but the employee’s family. Where do their children go. What about a parent with dementia, or a dog nobody can take. Is there help for someone whose house floods while they were here caring for other people’s families. Organizations that plan for the household get volunteers. Organizations that plan only for the facility get compliance, and quiet resentment that outlasts the season.
The same principle governs the ordinary year. Whenever you ask someone to put the organization ahead of their own life, even briefly, the question is whether you also took responsibility for what they set down to do it.
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, staffing facilities that cannot close.
Essential Operations
Material for organizations that stay open when everything else shuts, and for the people who staff them.
Clinical, Corporate, and Public Rooms
Works for a hospital leadership day, a headquarters all-hands, or a statewide association general session.
Groups Chris speaks for.
St. Petersburg combines nationally known health care with corporate headquarters and a large public sector.
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, with thousands of medical professionals, for nurse leadership, all-staff, and recognition events
- HCA Florida hospitals and Orlando Health Bayfront, across the city’s clinical employers
- Raymond James Financial, headquartered in St. Petersburg, for corporate all-hands and leadership summits
- Jabil and Duke Energy Florida, headquartered in the city
- Pinellas County Schools, one of the largest districts in Florida, for convocation and staff development days
- The City of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, including public safety and utility crews
- USF St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg College, along with Florida associations meeting in the city
St. Petersburg employers who cannot close.
Healthcare is where Chris operates, and hospitals carry the sharpest version of this every season.
Hospitals and Health Systems
Facilities that stay open through storms with staff designated to remain on site.
Utilities and Public Safety
Crews who go out precisely when everyone else is told to stay in.
Senior Living and Long-Term Care
Communities where residents cannot easily be moved and staff carry the decision.
Corporate and Continuity Operations
Employers whose business continuity plans depend on specific people saying yes.
St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay venues.
- The Duke Energy Center for the Arts, the Vinoy, and downtown hotel ballrooms for statewide association meetings
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s, HCA Florida, and Bayfront campuses for nurse leadership and all-staff days
- Corporate headquarters and campuses for all-hands and leadership summits
- District facilities for convocation and staff development days
- USF St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg College for campus programming
- Clearwater, Largo, Tampa, and communities across Tampa Bay
St. Petersburg events Chris speaks at.
Hospital and Health System Events
Leadership days, nurse recognition events, and all-staff meetings.
Nurse Leadership
Charge nurse and manager development for teams who staff the building when nobody else can.
Association Conferences
Statewide and national association annual meetings, the format Chris works in most often.
Retention and Frontline Leadership
Supervisor development for essential operations that ask a great deal of people.
Long-Term and Senior Care
Skilled nursing, assisted living, and continuing care conferences and in-service days.
Corporate and Headquarters All-Hands
Company meetings, kickoffs, and leadership summits across the region’s employers.
Keynote topics for your St. Petersburg event.
Every session is customized for the audience, the format, and what you are actually trying to change.
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Our staff carried us through the last storm. How do we honor that properly?
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Keynote speaking across Florida.
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