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Capitol City Speakers Bureau

Healthcare Speakers

Anne Ryder
Emmy Award-Winning Journalist & Writer
Anne Ryder
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$5,001 - $7,500

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Indiana
Change & Transformation
Patient Experience
Resilience
Stress & Life Balance

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Anne Ryder

● Biography

With the advent of AI and vast changes underway in the delivery system for medicine, how do you master the kind of patient connections that artificial intelligence will never replicate? As a renowned Emmy-award winning journalist, Anne Ryder covered some of the most compelling stories of our time—reporting from war zones and interviewing peacemakers, including the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa, who granted Anne her final interview in Calcutta prior to her death. A few years later, as a patient undergoing a life-threatening emergency, the lessons of service and connection Anne covered for 25 years came right to her bedside, when some extraordinary nurses changed her life and, eventually, her life’s work.

In her speaking presentations, Anne weaves together stories that celebrate and honor the kind of nurses who make a lifelong difference, and Anne tailors the message to meet your specific needs. Now working as a college journalism professor, Anne maintains connections to the broadcast world in which she earned 18 regional Emmy awards and five national awards for excellence. Anne also serves as a consultant to an AI company. She is a believer in life-long personal growth and changed her own life at the top of her career to achieve more personal balance.

With stories that are both poignant and amusing, Anne’s profound respect for compassionate nursing care comes through both as a verbal love letter to nurses and a reminder of what matters most at the bedside, even when compassion fatigue sets in.  Indiana University presented Anne with the Doris H. Merritt Service to Nursing Award for her active support of the nursing profession and the governor of Indiana granted Anne the highest citizens award the state bestows. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, Anne is the recipient of three honorary doctoral degrees.

She considers her most profound accomplishment her deep relationship with family, particularly her daughter, Jennifer Teresa, who was the “stowaway” in her belly for the trip to Calcutta to meet with Mother Teresa.

Anne Ryder

● Featured Keynote Programs

The Golden Thread: The Compassion Connection from Mother Teresa's Calcutta to the Modern Bedside

Despite the advent of AI and technology that allows us to connect instantly to nearly anyone on the planet, we sometimes fail to make the connections that matter most. This moving presentation taps stories gleaned first-hand from Mother Teresa and from nurses in clinical settings around the country. The stories of patient connections that make a profound difference take the listener from tears to laughter. It's about looking up from the email and the charts and following the intuitive hit to hold a hand, whisper a comforting word, or notice something that everyone else fails to see. Care-giving starts in the heart, and the golden thread of compassionate care that binds you to your patient shows up best in the dark, when they are most apt to feel alone and disconnected.

Power, Peace and Perseverance: Lessons Learned from Mother Teresa

This is the "story behind the story" of the final interview with Mother Teresa before her death, the moving lessons learned, and the ways they came full circle years later with life experience. Mother Teresa said, "Calcutta is everywhere is you have the eyes to see it." Video clips help punctuate a moving and often humorous presentation that helps unify people of various and even no traditional faith under the common denominators of love and service. The enduring message of connecting to others in service, and building a receptive soul of stamina even in times of difficulty, darkness and doubt, resonates long after the speech is over.

Change and Chaos: Mastering Stress and Grief with Compassionate Connection

A profound sense of loss is rolling across the healthcare landscape as wholesale change forces a shift in hospital cultures and best practices. The employee toll is a sense of chaos, disconnection and even grief. How do you grieve the old when implementing the new? What can we learn from chaos and stress, and how can we turn it around? Anne Ryder taps personal experiences with stress, loss, the patient perspective on compassionate care and an extended encounter with Mother Teresa to offer micro-solutions to a macro concern -- maintaining compassionate connection in the midst of chaos.

In An Instant: Reacting to Life's Turning Points

Life can change "in an instant"-in a diagnosis, an accident, or a job loss. Anne Ryder calls upon 25 years of stories as an Emmy-award winning journalist to examine how people have made transcendent breakthroughs in the face of great difficulty. This includes her year-long award-winning chronicle of three men critically burned in a fire, a 7 year follow of a girl whose face was rebuilt after an accident, and a family's decision to honor a teenage girl's wishes to donate her organs so that others could live after she died.

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