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Keynotes & Workshops

Actionable ideas and skills physicians can actually use — delivered as standalone keynotes or hands-on, interactive workshops.

Medical training doesn't teach the skills that determine whether an attending truly thrives — leadership, intentional career design, and resilience. BCS keynotes and workshops fill that gap.

Every session is built to be practical: physicians leave with ideas and skills they can put to work the next day. Presentations can be delivered as standalone keynotes or as interactive workshops for breakout sessions and group training, and topics can be combined and customized to fit your event.

What We Cover

Signature topics

Leadership & Professional Skills

  • To Be A Physician Is To Lead — critical leadership skills for any attending
  • Powerful Public Speaking — presentation impact for influence
  • Stop Managing and Start Coaching — coaching for performance in healthcare

Career Design

  • Intentional Life Design for Physicians — have a career rather than your career having you
  • Proven Strategies for Non-clinical Career Transition — new opportunities for growth and challenge

Well-being & Resilience

  • Skills for Moving Forward in a Covid-19 World
  • Burnout & The Physician Brain — using science to burnout-proof ourselves and those we lead
  • Are We Perfect Yet? — the Inner Critic and self-compassion for physicians

Recent & past engagements

A selection of keynotes, workshops, grand rounds, and podcast appearances, 2017–2026.

Nov 21, 2025
Instructor & Course Lead, Peer Mentor-Coach Training Program for Physicians and PAsWake Emergency Physicians (WEPPA), Raleigh, NC
2025
Keynote Speaker, Non-clinical Career Development for PhysiciansSEAK Non-clinical Careers Course
2025
Keynote Speaker, Leveraging LinkedIn to Jumpstart Your Networking and Find JobsSEAK Non-clinical Careers Course
Oct 18-20, 2024
Keynote Speaker & Faculty Mentor, 19th Annual Non-clinical Careers for Physicians ConferenceSEAK, Chicago, IL
Oct 14-15, 2023
Mentor, 18th Annual Non-clinical Careers for Physicians ConferenceSEAK, Chicago, IL
Sep 26-27, 2023
Opening Keynote, “From Languishing to Thriving”Coalition for Physician Enhancement Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT
Aug 16, 2023
Podcast Guest, Ep. #143 — Are You at Risk of Jeopardizing Your Ability to Practice?The Doctor's Crossing Carpe Diem Podcast
Jul 12, 2023
Podcast Guest, Ep. #138 — Is Your Communication Style Helping or Hurting You?The Doctor's Crossing Carpe Diem Podcast
May 5, 2023
Session Speaker, “How Great Physicians Get Into Trouble!”International College of Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX
Apr 17, 2023
Podcast Guest, “Why You Must Wake Up Before Bad Behavior Ruins Your Career!”The Physician Nonclinical Careers Podcast, Ep. 296
Oct 1, 2022
Panel Speaker, Compassion Fatigue and BurnoutLPC Association of North Carolina Annual Conference, Winston-Salem, NC
Oct 15-16, 2022
Faculty Mentor, 17th Annual Non-clinical Careers for Physicians ConferenceSEAK, Chicago, IL
May-Jun 2022
Lead Faculty / Course Creator, “The Science of Compassion” three-part webinar seriesHawaii partnership
Dec 11, 2021
Industry Workshop, “Powerful Public Speaking for Physicians in Industry”Boston Scientific (deep brain stimulation division)
Apr-Jun 2021
Lead Faculty, Coaching Skills for Effective Leadership series (Parts I–III)Hawaii
Jan-Feb 2021
National Workshop Series, “Powerful Public Speaking for Physicians in Industry”Boston Scientific (neuromodulation division)
Aug-Oct 2020
Lead Faculty, Crafting a New Normal series (Parts I–III)Hawaii
Oct-Dec 2019
Lead Faculty / Course Creator, “Intentional Life Design for Physicians” five-week online courseDuke University, Durham, NC
Oct 19, 2019
Opening Keynote, “Proven strategies for a successful career transition”SEAK 16th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Oct 3-4, 2019
Breakout Session, “Re-connect with the JOY of medicine”NC Medical Society NC LEAD Annual Conference, Raleigh, NC
Sep 19-21, 2019
Exhibitor, American Conference on Physician HealthCharlotte, NC
Jun 13, 2019
Podcast Guest, “Understanding Professionals in Crisis”Sex, Love, and Addiction Podcast
Apr 24-27, 2019
Exhibitor, Federation of State Physician Health Programs Annual National ConferenceFort Worth, TX
Feb 8, 2019
Grand Rounds, “Burnout & The Physician Brain”Neurology & Neurosurgery, Stony Brook Medical Center, NY
Dec 12, 2018
Podcast Guest, Ep. #64 — The Interesting Life of the Professional Development CoachThe VITAL Physician Executive Podcast
Dec 6, 2018
Grand Rounds, “Resilience & Meaning”Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Nov 7, 2018
Keynote, “Turning the Corner on Burnout”Annual Medical Executive Staff CME, Mercy Medical Center, Dubuque, IA
Oct 21, 2018
Breakout Session, “How to become a physician coach and consultant”SEAK 15th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Oct 12, 2018
Physician Workshop, “Taming the overwhelm in our crazy lives as physicians”Vanderbilt Medical School Alumni Weekend, Nashville, TN
Apr 27-28, 2018
Opening Keynote, “Leading Through Chaos”Iowa Medical Society Annual Conference, Des Moines, IA
Feb 8, 2018
Breakout, “Burnout in High Risk, Frontline Specialties”Iowa Medical Society Resiliency Conference, Des Moines, IA
Jan 10, 2018
Grand Rounds, “Surviving Versus Thriving For Emergency Physicians”EM Residency of Columbia & Cornell (NY-Presbyterian), New York, NY
Dec 11, 2017
Flexner Dean's Lecture Series, “Physician Burnout”Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Oct 11, 2017
Keynote, “Physician Coaching”Durham-Orange County Medical Society Speaker Series, Durham, NC

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