The Real Job of a Leader Is to Elevate Others.
Chris Sund speaks on servant leadership as a working executive: President and COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare and Nebula. His leadership program, You Are Capable of More: Leadership, is built on four principles, and the last one, Elevate Others, is the heart of it: develop people so well that they become capable of more than you are.
Where Organizations Book Chris on Servant Leadership
Servant leadership is easy to agree with and hard to practice under pressure. Chris shows what it looks like on a busy day with a number to hit.
Leadership Development Days
The leadership workshop for managers at every level.
Healthcare and Senior Living
Where leaders serve the people who serve patients and residents.
Association Conferences
A leadership keynote that gives members practical moves.
Nonprofits
For mission-driven teams. See nonprofit speaking.
Why Does Servant Leadership Break Down Under Pressure?
Most leaders believe in serving their people until the quarter gets tight. Then they take the work back, stop developing anyone and start managing by email. The team learns that service was a slogan.
Chris teaches four principles that hold up under pressure: Embrace Ownership, Dare to Stretch, Generate Momentum and Elevate Others. Leaders leave measuring themselves by what their people become capable of, not by their own output.
- The four principles: Embrace Ownership, Dare to Stretch, Generate Momentum and Elevate Others
- Owning outcomes so your people do not have to carry blame
- Coaching conversations that develop people
- Why people quit managers, and how to be the one they stay for
- Momentum systems that keep a team moving
- A multiplier mindset: measuring success by what your people become
Proof: A Leader Who Still Leads
Chris leads hundreds of people across three companies and helped grow Uniti Med 10x in revenue in two years while building cultures named Fortune Best Workplaces.
He has delivered the leadership program at the Iowa Health Care Association, the Montana Health Care Association, the California Staffing Professionals conference and more.
Chris is a thoughtful, intentional leader who fully understands the influence he carries and uses it to positively impact everyone he encounters. His message challenged me to think differently about how I lead, serve, and influence others.
I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing Chris Sund’s speaking engagements firsthand — and they are truly powerful. You leave not only inspired but equipped with practical leadership insights you’re eager to implement.
Programs on Servant Leadership
Every session is customized to your leaders.
You Are Capable of More: Leadership
How great leaders unlock the people around them. Chris’s leadership workshop, also available as a keynote.
You Are Capable of a Better Culture
Build a workplace people never want to leave, with the five SPARK drivers.
Your Team Is Capable of More
Building elite teams in the boardroom and the locker room.
Why Employees Quit Their Managers
The retention side of leadership.
Formats
The leadership program runs as a keynote or as Chris’s own interactive 60 to 90 minute leadership workshop.
Keynote
The leadership keynote for the whole room.
Workshop
The interactive leadership workshop: guided discussion, self-assessment and real scenarios.
Virtual
The keynote or workshop delivered virtually, with practice and written commitments.
Who Books This Session
Related pages: You Are Capable of More: Leadership · Leadership Keynote Speaker · Why Employees Quit Their Managers · Lead Yourself First · Emotional Intelligence Speaker · Leadership Workshop Facilitator
What Planners Ask About a Servant Leadership Speaker
Is the leadership workshop Chris’s own program?
Yes. You Are Capable of More: Leadership is Chris’s own leadership workshop, built from running his companies and from his book.
Can it run as a workshop?
Yes. It is the program Chris delivers as an interactive 60 to 90 minute workshop, as well as a keynote.
Does Chris speak virtually?
Yes. In-person sessions are his preference, and he also delivers keynotes and breakouts virtually.
How much does it cost to book Chris?
Chris quotes the speaking fee and travel together in one proposal, so the total is clear up front. Send your date, city and audience through the contact form and you will have availability and a quote within one business day.
You Are Capable of More
The bestselling book behind the keynote, and the 2026 Paris Book Festival winner in the How-To category. Ten principles for closing the gap between what a team is producing and what it is actually capable of.
Many hosts give every attendee a copy of You Are Capable of More so the message keeps working after the event. Bulk pricing and signed copies are available.
He Still Runs the Companies
Chris is President and COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare and Nebula. He has spent the past decade in healthcare staffing, a business that runs on people, pace and morale, and he speaks two to three times a month alongside running his companies.
He took Uniti Med from startup to one of the largest healthcare staffing companies in the US: 10x revenue growth on the core brand, #3 on the Inc. Regionals list of the fastest-growing companies in the Midwest, and a Fortune Best Workplaces award along the way.
He is the bestselling author of You Are Capable of More, winner of the How-To category at the 2026 Paris Book Festival and built on original research with more than 200 working adults, 92% of whom said they were capable of more than they were doing. He writes for Inc. and Forbes.
Stages I Have Spoken On
Where Audiences Have Heard Chris
Conferences, company meetings and kickoffs where Chris has spoken.
NAHCR 2025 Annual ConferencePalm Springs, CALeadingAge IllinoisPublished the LAARC MethodPOWER ConferenceOmaha, NESIA Healthcare Staffing SummitArlington, TXNATHO Annual ConferenceNationalNAHCR 2026 Annual ConferenceMilwaukee, WIAlso: You Are Capable of More: Leadership · Leadership Speaker · All Speaking · See all speaking engagements →
Lead So Your People Become More
Tell Chris about your leaders and your event. You’ll get a fast, straight answer on fit and availability.
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