Structure that restores agency.
I speak to patient advocacy organizations, employers, women's health conferences, healthcare teams, and academic audiences about what the medical system gets wrong for women with chronic illness, and what a structural response actually looks like. I speak from inside the experience and from the structural analysis of it. My talks don't offer inspiration. They offer frameworks audiences can use the day they leave the room.
Most talks in this space offer a story or a protocol. I offer a map.
Built from lived experience across nine diagnoses.
Grounded in research, not wellness culture.
Structural analysis, not inspiration.
Actionable frameworks audiences can use immediately.
Two talks I've shaped for specific audiences. Both adapt for keynote, panel, or workshop formats.
Women's health
Healthcare navigation
Clinical and academic settings
The Structural Failure: What the Medical System Gets Wrong for Women with Chronic Illness
Diagnostic delays average 5–12 years across the most common invisible conditions affecting women. In equivalent symptom presentations, women are 4× more likely than men to have their pain attributed to psychological causes. This talk names the structural mechanisms driving those numbers, and what a structural response actually looks like. It covers the six domains where the system fails this population. Not just in the clinical setting, but across every life domain chronic illness touches.
Audiences leave with a map, not a diagnosis. A framework they can carry into the next appointment, the next policy conversation, the next time they're asked to explain why the usual playbook isn't working.
Employer conferences
Benefits and accommodation teams
Workplace culture initiatives
The Invisible Employee: What Chronic Illness Costs Your Organization — and What Actually Helps
Chronic illness is the single largest driver of employer productivity loss in the United States, and most of it is invisible. Not because employees aren't showing up, but because the cost lives in disclosure barriers, accommodation gaps, and a performance-of-wellness culture that costs both the employee and the organization.
This talk gives HR and leadership teams a structural framework for understanding what's actually happening with their chronically ill workforce, why the standard accommodation playbook isn't landing, and what interventions reduce the real cost. Not feel-good benefits. The actual ones.
How I deliver.
- Keynote (45–60 minutes)
- Panel or conference session (20–30 minutes)
- Workshop with audience application
- Available in person and virtual
- Moderated Q&A included on request
Who I speak to.
- Patient advocacy organizations
- HR, DEI, and employer groups
- Healthcare navigation conferences
- Women's health summits
- Academic and clinical settings
- Disability and chronic illness nonprofits
- Book festivals and author interviews
Not a story you'll forget by the time you get back to your hotel room.
A named framework for the structural mechanisms behind what they've been experiencing or witnessing. Not a diagnosis. A map.
Language precise enough to use in medical, professional, and relational contexts the same day.
A clear understanding of why the standard responses haven't worked. And what a structural response actually looks like.
The dismissal wasn't personal. It was structural. And structural problems have structural solutions.
Bring me in.
Booking 2026. Share your event, date, audience, and whether there's a budget, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I take speaking seriously and I answer these carefully.