Stronger Together Is a Theme. Make It a Standard.
If your conference theme is Stronger Together, Chris Sund delivers the keynote that turns it from a banner into a behavior. His team program, Your Team Is Capable of More, covers shared ownership, a standard everyone protects and teammates who make each other better, and his culture keynote, You Are Capable of a Better Culture, covers why people stay together at all.
Where Stronger Together Conferences Book Chris
Stronger Together is one of the most popular conference themes because it fits almost every audience. The risk is a keynote that repeats the theme without changing anything. Chris gives the room something to do with it.
Association Annual Meetings
A general session that connects members across roles and regions.
Healthcare Conferences
Teams under staffing pressure who need each other more than ever. See healthcare.
Company Meetings
An all-hands keynote after a merger, a hard year or a period of growth.
Leadership Retreats
For leaders who need their teams pulling the same direction.
What Does Stronger Together Actually Take?
Teams do not become stronger together because someone says so. They get stronger when people own the result together, protect a shared standard and trust each other enough to say the hard thing.
Chris speaks from running companies in healthcare staffing, where teams are stretched thin and turnover is expensive, and where the cultures he has built have been named Fortune Best Workplaces.
- Shared ownership of results instead of finger-pointing
- A standard the whole team protects
- The SPARK drivers that keep people together: Support, Purpose, Appreciation, Relationships, Knowledge & Growth
- Why people quit people, not companies
- Teammates who make each other better
- One commitment each person makes to the people beside them
Proof: Rooms That Pulled Together
Chris has delivered his team and culture programs at the POWER Conference, the Iowa Health Care Association, the Montana Health Care Association and the South Dakota Health Care Association.
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One of my biggest takeaways was that being a leader doesn’t mean removing every hard thing. It means making sure your people don’t have to face it alone. That’s the kind of leader I want to be.
Chris presented in a very professional manner and related very well to our long-term care providers. He has boundless energy and articulates his ideas very clearly. He was so well received by our providers.
Programs That Fit a Stronger Together Theme
Chris keeps his program titles and builds your theme into the session.
Your Team Is Capable of More
Building elite teams in the boardroom and the locker room.
You Are Capable of a Better Culture
Build a workplace people never want to leave, with the five SPARK drivers.
You Are Capable of More
The signature keynote: people are capable of far more than they realize, and the gap closes when they stop waiting and take ownership.
Teamwork Speaker
The broader teamwork and collaboration page.
Formats
Most committees book an opening keynote; many add a breakout for leaders.
Keynote
The opening or closing general session built around your theme.
Breakout
A smaller-room session for leaders or a track.
Virtual
The same session live online.
Who Books This Session
Related pages: Conference Theme Ideas for 2027 · Healthcare Conference Themes 2027 · Teamwork Speaker · Your Team Is Capable of More · Culture Keynote Speaker · Opening Keynote Speaker
What Planners Ask About a Stronger Together Keynote
Will Chris retitle his session to match our theme?
Chris keeps his program titles as they are, and builds the theme into the session itself: the opening, the stories he chooses and the closing call to action. Your program book can list the session under your theme heading.
Which program fits Stronger Together best?
Usually Your Team Is Capable of More. For HR and culture-focused audiences, You Are Capable of a Better Culture.
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.
POWER ConferenceOmaha, NENAHCR 2026 Annual ConferenceMilwaukee, WILeadingAge IllinoisPublished the LAARC MethodSIA Healthcare Staffing SummitArlington, TXDefinitive Healthcare SKOBoston, MA · 800+ sellersNATHO Annual ConferenceNationalAlso: Conference Theme Ideas for 2027 · Your Team Is Capable of More · All Speaking · See all speaking engagements →
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