Speaking Engagements
Keynotes, workshops, and events designed for both leadership teams anD frontline clinicians.
We believe, with decades of experience and literature backing us, clinicians leading the way is a strong predictor of organizational performance and culture. Our physician faculty are national thought leaders in engaging clinicians and care teams in patient connection, team collaboration, and effective leadership to drive transformative results.
STEPHEN BEESON, MD
As a successful family medicine physician, medical group leader, and physician coach, Dr. Stephen Beeson’s career has pioneered an approach to both the patient and clinician experience with demonstrated transformative results. These experiences are brought to the stage in simple and engaging approaches in how we lead change and mobilize exhausted caregivers in purposeful work.
Dr. Beeson is the author of two national best-selling books, “Practicing Excellence: A Physician’s Manual to Exceptional Healthcare” and “Engaging Physicians: A Manual to Physician Partnership.” He has traveled across the country working with hundreds of health care systems to help develop leaders, improve clinician well-being, and transform care for patients.
Speaking Topics
Speaking events and workshops engage and develop frontline clinicians and leaders to transform the patient experience, build a spirit of collaboration, and lead to bring the best of each other. Content is designed and delivered to leave clinicians and leaders with actionable guidance on what to do, with the inspirational motivation to get the work done.
SPEAKING FORMATS INCLUDE:
60-90 minute keynotes
Full and half-day workshops
Specialized break-out sessions
SPEAKING PROGRAMS
Leading The Patient Experience: Why It Matters & How To Do It
Take a progressive, step-wise journey in engaging clinicians and teams in patient experience efforts. Begin with the overwhelming case for patient centricity and its impact on loyalty, clinical effectiveness, patient retention, and clinician fulfillment to set the stage. Discuss tapping future state design, change management, skill building, patient experience certifications, data progress reporting, and recognition to create the foundation for transformative change.
Recommended Audience: Leaders
Five Essential Leader Behaviors That Bring The Best Of Others
A review of five leader behaviors that support clinical team members to develop skills, advance abilities, improve engagement, and contribute more. We’ll outline specific actions for leaders that support modeling, coaching, listening, communicating, and appreciating to ensure the of high-impact leaders who bring the best of those they lead. In this talk, we examine actions leaders take and how to enable those leader behaviors everywhere to fuel successful change.
Recommended Audience: Leaders
The Clinician Experience & Why Caring For The Care Team Can Change Everything
Explore the profound impact of clinician struggles. Outline what is present in places where clinicians are thriving. Using research, case studies, and decades of clinician engagement experience, we craft three fundamental drivers of the clinician experience and review accessible actions to advance all three channels simultaneously. We review the organizational impact of caring for the care team and help architect an approach to support clinicians to be there best.
Recommended Audience: Clinicians and Formal Leaders
Tapping Learning & Skill-Building To Transform An Organization
Take a stepwise progression to create a continuously improving, mastery culture that is constantly learning. We review the case for skill building and the dividends that arise from getting better at skills that operationally support clinicians to be their best. Use applied micro-learning methods to accelerate outcomes as clinicians learn techniques to connect with patients. Collaborate with teams and learn leadership skills to lead at the local team level.
Recommended Audience: Clinicians and Formal Leaders
Delivering The Patient Experience: Every Patient, Every Time
Take a step inside the exam room and experience the profound impact of three simple techniques to transform the patient experience. Outline the data on how patient connection drives clinical effectiveness and clinician fulfillment. This highly interactive coaching session is designed to provide actions that leave you with simple steps to try tomorrow and inspiration to find the best of a clinical life.
Recommended Audience: Clinicians and Leaders
CreatE A DatA & Purpose-Driven Organization
High-performance cultures are driven by purpose and are rich in feedback loops. The proper use of performance feedback, both formal data and informal debriefs, can accelerate improvement and deepen commitment of your teams. Providing feedback to physicians can be one of the most powerful tools to drive better results in system goals. This presentation focuses on what to measure, how to report credibly, how to select goals, and drive results using data.
Recommended Audience: Leaders
Creating A Physician Coaching Culture
The best professionals and teams strive to improve together through coaching. This presentation stresses the importance of a coaching/mentoring culture and cites examples of quality engagement and satisfaction improvement that results from coaching. You’ll learn how to create a successful coaching approach with simple, step-by-step methods for selecting, developing, and supporting physician coaches as they share case studies of successful coaching approaches.
Recommended Audience: Clinicians and Leaders
Dyad Leadership: HOW THE BEST DO IT
In an era where the integration of hospital and outpatient environments and on both individual and population care are critically important, dyad leadership is essential for any organization striving to combine business acumen with clinical excellence. Learn key aspects of successful dyads, typical pitfalls of dyads, and how to create powerful dyad leadership that energizes your organization. This common-sense session pulls from real-world experience and illustrative data.
Recommended Audience: Leaders
Leading Change For Clinicians And Leaders
Dragging people through change, whether physicians, leaders or patients, is a low-yield, high-energy strategy. Review how to leverage your current circumstances toward an intrinsic commitment to a positive future. Using a change management path defined by progressive change mangement thought leaders, you’ll learn an approach that helps physicians and leaders move from “Why change?” to “Let’s get moving!”
Recommended Audience: Leaders
Changing Culture: What It Is & How To Approach It
Culture is simply the operational outworking of “how we do things here,” driven by a shared belief system. In this full-day session, we take a step-wise journey through outlining the definition of culture change and what it takes to get foster this change. We take a look an in-depth look at future co-design, change management, effective success tracking, skill development, and leading transformational change.
Recommended Audience: Leaders and Clinicians
How To Select And Onboard Clinicians: The Power Of The Beginning
When you get the “who” right, the “what” is easy. Selecting clinicians can be a seven figure investment for an organization and building a predictive selection process is critical to getting the right clinicians in organization. Together we’ll review a process for selecting and on-boarding clinicians that can support recruitment and position new hires for success.
Recommended Audience: Leaders
Clinician As Clinical Team Leader
Clinicians leading the way means clinicians leading at the clinical micro-system level. Organizational culture changes 4-6 people at a time, and tapping adaptive clinician influence is a foundation to improvement capacity. In this talk, we review the fundamentals of local clinician leadership that brings the best from team members driven by growth mindset, team intelligence, engagement, and purpose.
Recommended Audience: Clinicians and Leaders
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