SIA Healthcare Staffing Summit 2026
Real-World Innovation in Healthcare Staffing — A panel on the firms that stopped bolting technology onto old processes and rebuilt how the work actually gets done.
Where the industry compares notes.
The Healthcare Staffing Summit, hosted by Staffing Industry Analysts, brings owners, executives, and operators of healthcare staffing firms together at the Loews Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas. It is the room where the people running these businesses talk candidly about what is working and what is not.
Chris joins the panel Real-World Innovation in Healthcare Staffing, moderated by Carmen Malatino of SIA, alongside staffing leaders and the technology and service partners who helped them execute.
Real-World Innovation in Healthcare Staffing
Moderated by Carmen Malatino, Staffing Industry Analysts.
The most successful healthcare staffing firms are not simply adopting new technology. They are redesigning how the work gets done.
This session puts real examples on the table: firms that have rebuilt recruiting, credentialing, operations, and clinician engagement, and what it did to business performance. Leaders will walk through what they changed, why they made those calls, where it got difficult, and what actually came of it. Technology and service partners join to give the implementation view. The conversation stays on customer outcomes and lessons learned, not product demos.
Redesign, Not Bolt-On
Why layering tools onto an old process mostly automates the mess.
Where Firms Changed
Recruiting, credentialing, operations, and clinician engagement.
The Hard Parts
What broke during implementation and what it cost to push through.
Results, Not Demos
What moved in the business, measured honestly.
What Attendees Will Take Away
Concrete examples of process redesign that produced measurable results.
An honest account of the implementation problems nobody puts in a case study.
How to judge whether a tool solves your problem or just relocates it.
Where clinician experience and operational efficiency actually meet.
Feedback from leaders in the room.
His topics are well researched, and he weaves in practical tips and real-life examples that make every session realistic and relatable.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice to every presentation, elevating the value he brings to every engagement.
I always have takeaways to put into action after Chris’ sessions. He cares deeply about uplifting the entire profession.
You Are Capable of More.
You Are Capable of More is the bestselling book behind Chris’s keynotes — ten principles for closing the gap between what an organization is doing and what it is actually capable of.
Process redesign fails for the same reason most change fails: the people inside it were never asked for more than the old system required. The book is about what happens when they are.
You Are Capable of More.
Chris is the author of the bestselling You Are Capable of More. Copies can be bundled for attendees, and Chris can run a signing table in the exhibit hall — which drives traffic for your sponsors.
About the Book →Staffing Industry Analysts.
Staffing Industry Analysts is the global research and advisory firm for the workforce solutions ecosystem. Its market data, forecasts and rankings are the numbers the industry runs on, from the Largest Staffing Firms lists to the sector sizing that shapes how firms plan.
The Healthcare Staffing Summit is SIA’s dedicated event for this sector, covering travel nursing, locum tenens, allied health and per diem care. Chris has spoken at the Summit in consecutive years and writes for SIA’s Staffing Stream.
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Chris’s sessions on workforce strategy, culture, and growth in healthcare staffing are among his most requested. Check availability and receive a customized proposal.