Karen Conway’s keynotes focus on what it takes to transform the healthcare system into one that produces optimal health for people and communities, while supporting the financial performance of healthcare organizations. She applies systems and design thinking techniques to help individuals and organizations move past outdated structures, thought processes and business models to collectively find innovative ways to meet multiple and at times seemingly conflicting objectives. Her presentations engage audiences in ways that open their minds and imagination to new ways of problem solving and navigating complex challenges.
In this speech, designed for general as well as healthcare specific audiences, Karen helps audiences release old ways of thinking that limit innovation, and help them recognize how collaborative engagement and problem solving is the key to finding new ways to fix the healthcare system. Karen provides compelling data and real world examples that demonstrate the success of this approach, and how sometimes “caring less” can deliver greater benefits for patients, businesses, healthcare organizations and the country as a whole.
In this expanded workshop-style keynote, Karen introduces techniques from Socratic Dialogues and Improv comedy to help participants build on each other’s insights and perspectives. The session focuses on creating trusting relationships that enable imaginative problem-solving and expand versus limit the possibilities.
As healthcare leaders broaden their focus from individual patient care to population health, the supply chain will assume a more strategic role in both clinical and financial performance, while also managing increasingly complex operational responsibilities. It explores the macro trends driving care into the community, offering real-world examples and recommendations on how the supply chain can support the clinical and social needs of patients and communities, as well as the financial well-being of the health system. This keynote is relevant for both supply chain professionals as well as those seeking to better understand how to apply a supply chain mindset to match available resources to patient and community needs.
The move to value-based healthcare demands the supply chain expand how it measures the value it delivers, to the healthcare system and the patients and communities it serves. Beyond the cost and efficacy of products, value analysis and strategic sourcing professionals will need to consider the role products play in strengthening resiliency, fighting climate change and/or improving health equity, and ensuring the ability of the healthcare system to provide effective, affordable care today and tomorrow. By walking through a series of hypothetical but realistic scenarios, audience members will learn how to manage this increasing complexity in a manner that aligns to their organization’s strategic priorities.
Collaboration is a critical skill for problem-solving, innovation and achieving broad organizational objectives, especially in complex, highly interconnected environments like healthcare. It’s also a key component for workforce satisfaction. Like healthcare, collaboration also occurs on a continuum. In this presentation, attendees will learn how to nurture collaborative environments, how to align with various internal and external stakeholders around common purpose and how to measure the success for themselves, their partners, their organizations.
More than 200 medical journals have called climate change the greatest threat to global public health, while healthcare operations contribute as much as 10 percent of the total U.S. carbon footprint. Today healthcare systems across the country and around the world are taking steps to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and other negative environmental impacts, while also addressing growing climate-related risks to their ability to care for patients. This presentation walks the audience through why supply chain is critical to this work, and provides real world myth busting examples to demonstrate that environmental sustainability is also good for the bottom line
In this presentation, keynote speaker Karen Conway shares what she learned on a recent healthcare mission to the heart of Africa and how it relates to the challenge of healthcare delivery in rural America. In Africa, Conway studied what is needed to enhance community health in remote villages and the role of the supply chain in meeting those needs. What she found was close alignment to the healthcare challenges faced by rural America and how the lessons from Africa can help supply chains support the last and often most critical mile of healthcare delivery in the U.S.
Unlock the keys to strategies that can elevate your personal and organizational success and the overall viability of the healthcare system as a whole. Whether through keynote speaking, facilitation, research, or consulting, Karen tailors every program to meet your unique needs. Ready to turn challenges into opportunities? Let’s collaborate and create a solution that works for you.
