Keep the Freight Moving by Keeping Your People, Shift After Shift.
Chris Sund speaks at logistics conferences, supply chain summits and warehouse and distribution events about the part of the operation that no system can run on its own: the people. He helps leaders hire and keep warehouse associates and drivers, develop the supervisors who run each shift, win and keep shippers without racing to the lowest rate, and use AI to clear routine paperwork off the desk, so the room leaves with ideas they can use at the next shift start.
What a Logistics and Supply Chain Audience Gets
The people at a logistics or supply chain conference are measured every day on whether product arrived where it was promised, on time and in one piece. Warehouse and distribution leaders, 3PL operators, transportation managers and procurement teams know their freight, their facilities and their customers far better than any outside speaker could. What tends to weigh on them is everything that depends on people: a peak season that needs far more hands than the rest of the year, new associates who leave before they are fully trained, supervisors who were promoted for being great on the floor and now have to lead the people they worked beside, and a sales team trying to win shippers who are hearing from every other provider in the region.
That is the part of the work Chris speaks to. He does not talk about network design, slotting or software, and he says so at the start. He brings the recruiting, retention, leadership and sales habits that helped Uniti Med grow 10x in revenue in two years, and he translates each one into the language of docks, shifts, lanes and customers. Early in his career he ran sales and marketing for a brewery, working with distributors and the store managers who carried the product, so the relationship between a supplier, the company that moves its goods and the customer at the end of the line is familiar ground for him.
For Warehouse and DC Leaders
Hiring for peak, keeping new associates past their first weeks, and building shifts people want to come back to.
For Shift Supervisors
Leading a team after being promoted from it, running a useful start-of-shift huddle, and giving feedback that lands.
For Sales and Account Teams
Winning and keeping shippers with LOCKS, and handling the rate conversation without giving the margin away.
For the Office
Practical AI for quotes, customer emails, job posts and the weekly reports nobody enjoys writing.
Topics for Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences
- Hiring and keeping warehouse and driver talent. What makes someone stay through the first few weeks, why the supervisor relationship matters more than most leaders expect, and how a visible path from associate to lead keeps good people from leaving for a small raise down the road. Built on Winning the Talent Battle, with more for fleets on the trucking and logistics page.
- Leadership for supervisors and shift leads. The jump from best performer to leader, how to earn trust from people who used to be peers, and the small daily habits that make a shift run smoother. See You Are Capable of More: Leadership.
- Selling logistics services. Shippers have more options than ever, and many of them are asked to compare providers on price alone. Chris uses LOCKS to help sales teams understand what a deal really needs next, show the cost of making the wrong choice, and keep the conversation on reliability and partnership instead of the rate sheet.
- Recognition people actually feel. Appreciation for associates and drivers that does not come across as a pizza lunch and a banner. Planners use The Power of Small Moments for this, and the guide to planning a Driver Appreciation Week event covers the details.
- AI for logistics teams. Drafting quotes and customer updates, turning notes into reports, and writing job posts in minutes, all in a hands-on session. See Take Back Your Time with AI.
Proof: Supply Chain and Operations Stages
At the WSHMMA Conference in Tacoma in August 2026, Chris led The Leadership Exchange, his interactive leadership workshop, for more than 200 healthcare supply chain and materials management professionals. In October 2026 he closed the MICA Fall Business Meetings in Omaha, a meeting of contractors, manufacturers, distributors and material supply firms, with Take Back Your Time with AI.
Chris brought exactly the kind of energy and engagement we wanted for our WSHMMA Annual Conference. Speaking to more than 200 healthcare supply chain professionals with a wide range of experience levels, he connected with the entire room. He didn’t simply stand on stage and talk about leadership — he created an experience. His Leadership Exchange had attendees talking, laughing, reflecting, and learning from one another. He knows how to read a room and turn a traditional conference session into something people actually participate in and remember.
I enjoyed meeting and working with Chris throughout DisruptHR Omaha 6.0. He was engaged, responsive, and invested throughout the planning process and created a presentation that resonated with our audience and challenged us all to look at employee retention from a different lens. Chris brought both expertise and authenticity to his presentation while making the most of DisruptHR’s fast-paced five-minute format. I’m so glad that we were able to connect and have him join us!
Chris was the consummate professional with an excellent stage presence. Not only did he work with our change in scheduling, topics, and even how many speakers were onstage at the same time — but he did it with grace and tact. Chris resonated with the audience to the point I had many attendees come up to me and ask where we got him. I would recommend Chris for any speaking needs as he’s versatile, flexible, and professional.
Programs for Logistics and Supply Chain Events
Every session is customized to the room, whether it is a national logistics conference, a regional warehouse association meeting or a company leadership retreat.
Winning the Talent Battle
Becoming the warehouse, carrier or 3PL people want to work for and recommend to their friends.
You Are Capable of More: Leadership
For supervisors, shift leads and managers stepping up to lead their teams.
You Are Capable of More Sales
The LOCKS framework for winning shippers and keeping the accounts you already have.
Your Team Is Capable of More
Getting shifts, departments and sites pulling in the same direction.
Take Back Your Time with AI
A live working session built around real logistics tasks.
Formats
Each program runs as a keynote, a breakout, a half-day workshop or a full-day workshop, in person. Early-morning and shift-change slots are welcome.
Keynote
A conference general session with stories and one tool every leader can use on the next shift.
Breakout
A leadership, workforce or sales track session with time for questions from the floor.
Half Day
Leaders work through their own hiring, onboarding or sales process and leave with a written plan.
Full Day
A leadership day for supervisors and site managers, or a full growth day for a sales team.
Who Books This Session
Related pages: Trucking and Logistics Keynote Speaker · Planning a Driver Appreciation Week Event · Manufacturing Keynote Speaker · Distribution and Equipment Dealer Speaker
What Logistics and Supply Chain Planners Ask
Has Chris spoken to supply chain audiences before?
Yes. In August 2026 he led The Leadership Exchange for more than 200 healthcare supply chain and materials management professionals at the WSHMMA Conference in Tacoma, and in October 2026 he closed the MICA Fall Business Meetings in Omaha for contractors, manufacturers, distributors and material supply firms.
Chris runs healthcare staffing companies. Why is he a fit for a logistics conference?
Because the challenges he works on every day are the same ones that keep logistics leaders busy: recruiting enough good people, keeping them, developing frontline supervisors and winning customers in a crowded market. He is clear that he does not speak on freight operations or technology, and he builds each session around your attendees.
What topics land best with warehouse, distribution and transportation audiences?
Hiring and keeping associates and drivers, leadership for supervisors and shift leads, selling logistics services with the LOCKS framework, and practical AI for quotes, customer updates and reports. Many events pick one for the general session and another for a breakout.
Can the session be tailored to a specific part of the supply chain?
Yes. Chris asks who will be in the room before he builds anything, so a session for warehouse supervisors sounds different from one for 3PL sales teams or procurement leaders, even when the program underneath is the same.
What formats are available?
A keynote, a breakout, a half-day workshop or a full-day workshop, all delivered in person.
You Are Capable of More
The bestselling book behind the keynote, and the winner of the How-To category at the 2026 Paris Book Festival. Ten principles for closing the distance between what a team is doing today and what it is capable of doing.
At the MICA Fall Business Meetings every attendee went home with a copy. Logistics companies often do the same for supervisors, new leads or the whole site.
He Grew a Company by Hiring Well and Keeping People
Chris is President & COO of Uniti Med and GQR Healthcare and COO of Nebula. He helped grow Uniti Med 10x in revenue in two years, which earned #3 on the Inc. Regionals list of the fastest-growing companies in the Midwest and a Fortune Best Workplaces award.
Early in his career he spent ten years in restaurants and then ran sales and marketing for a brewery, and every move in that career came from being recruited. He has spent the past decade in healthcare staffing, where the business depends on finding and keeping people, so the hiring and retention material comes straight from his day job.
He is the bestselling, Paris Book Festival award-winning author of You Are Capable of More, and he writes for Forbes and Inc.
Stages I Have Spoken On
Where Supply Chain and Business Audiences Hear Chris
Supply chain and distribution rooms, plus the sales and leadership stages where the same material was built.
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