SPEAKERS
SPEAKERS
Lisa Walden
Cofounder, Good Company Consulting & Future of Work Expert
Lisa X. Walden is a speaker, strategist, and consultant dedicated to helping businesses create authentic, empowering workplaces that don’t inspire the dreaded Sunday scaries. Her presentations deliver action-oriented insights that help people better connect, collaborate, and communicate.
As co-founder of Good Company Consulting, her work is centered on the (strangely revolutionary) concept that people and strategy don’t have to be mutually exclusive. She takes a holistic approach to workplace strategy, keeping human beings - arguably the most valuable resources - at front and center. Lisa Walden’s speeches focus on how to maintain thriving cultures, best-practices for mindful communication practices, and tactics for nurturing the single most important component of a healthy work environment—trust.
Walden has worked with a broad range of clients and organizations, ranging from architects, to finance, real estate, and hospitality. In her speeches, Lisa strives to inspire mindset shifts by presenting valuable, research-based insights in a way that resonates, engages, and entertains. She weaves in stories, statistics, case studies, and some good old-fashioned self-deprecating humor into each and every one of her presentations.
Lisa Walden is the co-author of Managing Millennials for Dummies and is deep in the trenches of planning her next book.
Jennifer Bickel, MD
Chief Wellness Officer, Moffit Cancer Center
Jennifer Bickel, MD, serves as the chief wellness officer at Moffit Cancer Center, Tampa, Fla. She works with senior leaders across the organization to ensure staff well-being is incorporated into all decisions. Dr. Bickel has real-world experience in assessing burnout across healthcare organizations and in developing effective, evidence-based strategies to reduce clinician burnout. Her innovative strategies to improve physician and healthcare worker well-being have been nationally recognized in publications and presentations. Dr. Bickel received her medical degree at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and completed her neurology residency at the University of Kansas.
Dr. Bickel will be leading the Tuesday ACHE session “Improve Clinician Retention and Patient Outcomes by Optimizing Professional Well-being.” Attendees will:
discuss how clinician burnout negatively affects a healthcare organization’s financial operations, clinician retention, safety culture and patient experience
learn about evidence-based models and expert recommendations, beyond traditional human resource offerings, for improving professional well-being.
identify how healthcare leaders from all areas can influence their surroundings to improve professional well-being.
Ryan Campbell
Mental Health & Resilience Speaker
Ryan Campbell is one of the world’s leading mental health and resilience keynote speakers. His gripping story of adventure and adversity leaves audiences in laughter, tears, and inspired into action. As a teenager, Ryan became the youngest solo pilot to fly around the world and was named one of Australia's 50 great explorers. But everything changed after a tragic plane crash that left him with a paraplegic diagnosis, told he would never walk again. Over the next several years, Ryan’s incredible recovery back to walking and flying again defied the odds. While he ticked the boxes that defined success, his mental health had never been worse. Like many in today’s world, Ryan was struggling with burnout, anxiety, and depression. His missing puzzle piece wasn’t found in a massive global expedition or miraculous recovery. Ryan’s greatest lesson was parked right in his driveway.
Today, Ryan speaks to organizations around the world about the life-changing power of prioritizing joy. Through the story of his Elvis-inspired 1960 pink Cadillac, he shares accessible and attainable frameworks that will immediately improve mental health, fuel performance, and transform culture. Through harnessing the power of joy, Ryan helps audiences shift their thinking so that they can step back in order to show up better. All by asking one simple question…What’s Your Pink Cadillac?
Thornton Kirby
President & CEO – SC Hospital Association
Thornton’s experiences as a healthcare attorney, a hospital executive, and a senior executive for Clemson University have combined to make him a well-respected thought leader on brand management, healthcare quality, and healthcare reform.
As CEO of the Hospital Association, Thornton is a trusted advisor to hospital CEOs, the Governor, state officials, and federal lawmakers. Thornton also has extensive experience with governing boards. He has served on more than 50 boards, leading ten of them as chairman. His board service includes nine years of service on the board of Joint Commission International, including two years as Chair. During eight years as Executive Secretary to the Board of Trustees for Clemson University, Thornton coordinated all aspects of governing board operations. He was a key executive sponsor of Clemson‘s drive to become a Top 20 public university, leading the university‘s tuition repricing initiative in support of the Top 20 vision. Thornton studied American Government at the University of Virginia, where he was one of 12 Jefferson Scholars selected from across the nation. He earned his Juris Doctor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the South Carolina Law Review. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a frequent speaker on healthcare issues.
Melanie Matney
System Chief Operating Officer of SCHA & President of the SCHA Foundation
Melanie Matney is the chief operating officer of the South Carolina Hospital Association and the president of the SCHA Foundation. She came to SCHA in 2008 to start AccessHealth SC, a technical assistance center focused on community collaboration and the development of systems of care for the uninsured. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health with a bachelor in psychology and a master in health administration. She is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.