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Capitol City Speakers Bureau

Healthcare Speakers

Kathy Dempsey, RN, CSP
Your Strategic Partner for Change
Kathy Dempsey
KEYNOTE FEE:

$10,001 - $15,000

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Arizona
Kathy Dempsey

Biography


Kathy B. Dempsey, is an award winning author, keynote speaker and recognized change expert. Kathy ignites organizations to SHED for Success by empowering them with practical tools to Adapt Quicker and Get Results!

As a former hospital executive, she strategically led Memorial Health Care System’s organizational development efforts to become one of top 100 hospitals in America. Her most popular book, Shed or You’re Dead®: 31 Unconventional Strategies for Growth and Change is the recipient of a Writer’s Digest International Book Award.

Her ‘signature story’ is her transformation as an ER/trauma nurse who became the first health care worker in America to be diagnosed positive for AIDS as a result of workplace exposure. She received national attention as a result of this life-altering hospital-based event that ‘made her a poster child’ for the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The diagnosis, a death sentence in the mid-80s, was confirmed with multiple positive tests. Months later, all tests returned negative. A miracle or medical error? No one is able to explain. The 3 months that Kathy lived with that traumatic diagnosis was a life-altering experience.

Kathy has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to SHED in places around the world including Europe, Canada, Africa, Mexico and across the United States. Her presentations reach far beyond that experience, to build a touchstone with each member of the audience. Her dramatic account provides focus, inspiration and practical tools for people to lead and master change in their personal and professional lives.

Kathy Dempsey

Featured Keynote Programs

SHED or You’re Dead® Keynote

Kathy’s most popular keynote session is packed with practical strategies for immediate implementation. Healthcare organizations that equip employees to shed faster will be the ones that survive and thrive. Millions of dollars and thousands of hours are lost each year due to the inability to get employees to move forward with healthcare changes. Why do 75% of all change efforts fail? Largely because people feel left out of the process and lack the skills, knowledge and motivation to adapt to the organization’s new systems, processes and procedures.

Can you imagine what your organization would be like if everyone could lead and master change? Healthcare organizations that equip their people to SHED faster  will be the ones that survive and thrive!

Leave empowered to SHED for Success™ and:

  • Embrace the concept of shedding and why it is a critical skill in today’s healthcare environment.
  • Learn the 3 foundational R’s of shedding to stay positive, juggle multiple priorities and do more with less.
  • Understand and conquer the 5 reasons why people resist change and won’t SHED!
  • Overcome the number one barrier in leading and managing change.
  • Increase your effectiveness by 75% by removing the biggest obstacles to a successful and sustainable change.

SHED 2.0 How to Lead Change When you Don’t Agree with it Yourself

Are you having trouble keeping up? Feel like the pace of change is accelerating? Have you ever been asked to change or lead change when you didn’t agree with it yourself? If you haven’t experienced it so far, this will be an essential skill to be successful in the future.

Effectively dealing with change is learning how to SHED — to let go of the old and embrace the new. 

  • Embrace the SHED Philosophy as a daily part of your work and life.
  • Apply the SHED Scale to evaluate your degree of control over a change.
  • Learn the six-step process for leading change you don’t agree with.
  • Utilize the SHED Communication checklist to ensure you are planning and communicating in the most effective way.
  • Incorporate the five proven strategies to seize the power of change and help others SHED.

SuperSHED! Live Well. Die Well. Choose Well.

Are you living your life fully alive? Do you jump out of bed every day full of energy and can’t wait to get to work? Do you feel like you’re really living every day to the best? Most of us struggle at times with many of these. What is a healthy SHED? We know what we should be doing different but we can’t seem to APPLY these changes consistently to our daily lives. Most of us give up before we hardly start. SHED the idea that many experts have told us – it takes 21 days to change a habit or 66 days to develop a new one.

Effectively dealing with change is learning how to SHED — to let go of the old and embrace the new. 

  • Implement the SHED NOW technique to immediately make healthy decisions.
  • Learn how to SuperSHED any negative limiting beliefs that may be holding you back.
  • Capture the secret to living your life more fully alive, choosing wisely on a moment to moment basis. (conscious awareness)
  • Exercise your ability to harness change and use it to empower you forward.
  • Overcome fear by understanding the cycle of life, stay in the here and now, and take courageous action steps.

SHED for Success: Seven New Skills Every Healthcare Worker Needs

The workplace has drastically shifted. The rules have changed. What worked in the past won’t work now or in the future. Do you have the right people, leaders on your team? Do you have a workforce with the right mindset? Are they passionate or in a coma? Resuscitate your entire workforce with this powerful interactive session.

Apply 7 essential SHED skills such as the ability to learn on the fly and to reframe quickly. 

  • Embrace the SHED Philosophy as a daily part of your work and life
  • Learn the seven new skills every worker needs to be successful in the future
  • Train team members with 21 new strategies to anchor the new skills of the future
  • Incorporate a list of effective interview questions to assess whether you are hiring the right person
  • Superpower your team’s success by 75% by incorporating the SHED Style Assessment Tool

Strategic Shedding Celebration

The Strategic Shedding Celebration is an amazing and powerful exercise for change. By catapulting your team – whether it’s 10 or 10,000 people – into a successful future, a Strategic Shedding Celebration will accelerate your success.

In addition to the SHED Keynote, fast-track your results with a Strategic Shedding Celebration. It’s a critical component for accelerating organizational transformation. We’ll catapult your team into the future and celebrate your success and achievement of your goal IN ADVANCE.

Bring on the balloons, music, and sparkling grape juice. Then get ready for the media interviews asking, “How did you do it?” This prompts your team to reflect and share key steps they have taken to reach their goal. It’s an amazing and powerful exercise that has proven results with our clients such as Honeywell, Norton Healthcare and Verizon Wireless.

The Strategic Shedding Celebration is an amazing and powerful exercise for change. By catapulting your team – whether it’s 10 or 10,000 people – into a successful future, a Strategic Shedding Celebration will accelerate your success.

Kathy Dempsey

● Featured Reviews

“I believe that every healthcare organization in this country could benefit from Kathy’s shedding message about leading change. She gives people permission to SHED! And if they don’t shed, healthcare costs and dysfunction in the workplace will increase!”

VP

“Healthcare is facing its most challenging times and the organizations that prepare their people will be the ones that survive and thrive! Preparing your people to SHED for Success™ and move forward with “whatever changes may take place” is the best health care insurance policy you can buy!”

Chairman, Department of Psychiatry

“After hearing Kathy speak, I left so inspired and excited that we instituted The Shed for Success Program. I’ve never seen my staff so engaged about change! If you are looking for employee engagement and culture change, call Kathy Dempsey.”

Director of Nursing

“The Shed for Success™ training program was dynamic and relevant. I have never seen our employees more energized and engaged in their interactions with our customers.”

Deputy Director
Kathy Dempsey

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