Motivational Healthcare Speakers

Daniel Amen, MD is a clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and brain imaging expert who heads the world-renowned Amen Clinics. He has published 26 books including the New York Times bestsellers Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; Magnificent Mind at Any Age; Healing ADD; and Change Your Brain, Change Your Body. He is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and the star of several very popular public-television specials. Dr. Amen spearheads the groundbreaking Amen Clinics' retired NFL player brain imaging study. Amen Clinics have pioneered the clinical use of, and maintain the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating, totaling 73,000 scans on patients from 90 countries. Through his books, and the media, Dr. Amen has helped thousands of organizations and millions of people improve their lives by improving their brain health.

Fee Range: $22,000–$75,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: $50,000–$50,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: $6,500–$10,500
Travels From: CO

Fee Range: $15,000–$25,000
Travels From: TX

Fee Range: $32,000–$68,500
Travels From: NY

Fee Range: $20,000–$38,500
Travels From: CA

Steven Aldana is one of the nation’s foremost experts on healthy living and worksite wellness. He is a former professor of lifestyle medicine at Brigham Young University. He is currently the CEO and founder of WellSteps, a turnkey wellness program designed to help employees adopt and maintain healthy behaviors for life. Aldana has published over 60 scientific articles on the prevention, arrest, and reversal of America’s most common chronic diseases. He has written 7 books on the ability of healthy lifestyle habits to prevent cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes, and many chronic diseases. His most recent book, The Culprit and The Cure is currently being used by over 4,500 companies and corporations in an effort to boost productivity and reduce employee related health expenses. Most recently, he has become a special advisor to the U.S. Secretary of health and human services. Steven Aldana is determined to educate people about the tremendous impact lifestyle has on disease and is devoted to helping individuals adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles.

Fee Range: $3,000–$6,000
Travels From: UT

One of the most controversial athletes in the history of sports, Lance Armstrong overcame Stage 3 testicular cancer to win seven consecutive Tour de France races and raise over a half billion dollars for cancer research through his Livestrong foundation before he was stripped of his titles and banned from cycling for using performance-enhancing drugs. Now a successful early stage investor in health care start-ups, he also leads WEDU, his global content and media platform and hosts two popular podcasts. Embracing his past mistakes with an endurance athlete’s tenacious mindset of powering through pain, challenges, and adversity; Armstrong’s inspirational, no-holds-barred talks champion resilience, integrity, leadership, and the ability we all have to overcome challenges and rise up from defeat.

Fee Range: $45,000–$75,000
Travels From: TX

Fee Range: $20,000–$38,000

Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
Travels From: AZ

Jill was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained and published brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious neuroanatomist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered her mind, brain and body. In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Jill shares with us her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the right and left halves of her brain. Based upon her academic training and personal experience, Jill helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can maximize our quality of life. Jill pushes the envelope in our understanding about how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel, and how we react to life’s circumstances. A film on her life is due to be released in last 2016.

Fee Range: $25,000–$70,000
Travels From: IN

Dave Caperton's programs have been described by his many clients in business, education and healthcare as a perfect blend of relevant content and entertaining high-energy humor. Drawing on his 20-plus years as an international keynote speaker, business owner, entrepreneur and executive coach and his background as an educator, stand-up comedian and comedy writer, Dave Caperton combines his long business experience and award-winning teaching strategies with razor sharp humor and comic timing to provide transformative insights on engagement, service and managing perception in a way that delivers results and fun.

Fee Range: $6,000–$8,000
Travels From: OH

Donna Cardillo has been speaking and entertaining for over a decade. A licensed registered nurse, her accomplished career combines over 20 years of clinical, managerial, and business experience, not to mention her experience as a professional singer. Known as "the guru" of career development for nurses, Donna's seminar "Career Alternatives For Nurses" has gained national recognition. Donna's sense of humor and down-to-earth speaking style consistently hit the mark with audiences nationwide. Her inspirational and dynamic delivery will ignite a fire under you and start you on a journey of exploration and discovery that will enable you to avail yourself of all that life has to offer.

Fee Range: $8,000–$15,000
Travels From: NJ

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare information technology, clinical transformation, and business intelligence. Dr. Chaiken is the author of the recently released Navigating the Code: How Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey, a groundbreaking book on healthcare information technology and its potential impact on quality, access, and cost of care. He currently serves as President of DocsNetwork Ltd. and previously worked with the National Institutes of Health, UK National Health Service, McKesson, Infor, and Salesforce/Tableau. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement, and managed care.

Fee Range: $10,000–$22,000
Travels From: MA

Elizabeth Cohen is the award-winning, senior medical correspondent for CNN's health, wellness and medical unit. Elizabeth reports daily on breaking medical news and consumer tips on CNN and on CNN.com and is the author of popular CNN.com column "The Empowered Patient," which has motivated millions of Americans to take charge of their medical care. Her book, THE EMPOWERED PATIENT: How to get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time, was published in August 2010. Passionate about teaching others how to be advocates for themselves and their families when faced with a less than perfect medical system, Elizabeth Cohen speaks fluidly about patients' need to take better control of their healthcare by learning the basic skills for achieving the best medical care in her engaging keynotes.

Fee Range: $30,000–$40,000
Travels From: GA

Dominique Dawes is an Olympic Gold Medalist, three-time Olympian, brand ambassador and motivational speaker. She is the only American gymnast to medal at three different Olympic Games in the team competition and the first African-American gymnast to win an Olympic Gold medal. Dominique paved the way for other young African-American gymnasts to strive for Olympic glory, including the last two reigning Olympic All-Around Gold Medalist Simone Biles (2016) and Gabrielle Douglas (2012). At the 1996 Atlanta Games, Dominique became the first female African-American gymnast to win an individual medal, capturing bronze with her floor exercise performance, helping solidify her place in the USOC Hall of Fame.

Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
Travels From: FL

Dr. Dan Diamond came back from the trenches of Katrina with a burning question: "How is it that some people become unstoppable?" What he has discovered drives motivation, increases engagement and empowers corporations from the inside out. Dr. Diamond has a passion for equipping people to perform under pressure. He founded and serves as the Director of the Nation's first state-affiliated medical disaster response team and he has responded to a variety of international disasters. Most recently he responded to the typhoon in the Philippines and he served as the Medical Director for Medical Teams International's First Response Team to Haiti. Following Hurricane Katrina, he played a strategic role as Director of the Mass Casualty Triage Unit at the New Orleans Convention Center. He has been interviewed on CNN, Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper.

Fee Range: $15,500–$16,000
Travels From: WA

Michelle Gielan shares research-based strategies that will turn employees at all levels of your organization into influential leaders. Her research has been featured in Harvard Business Review and has helped thousands of individuals create quantifiable business results. Michelle has crafted highly engaging talks, using interactive experiments, poignant stories, novel research, videos, and humor. She peppers the talks with practical ideas and leaves audiences with 3 simple, actionable strategies they can start using right away. Additionally, as part of the experience, attendees are offered the opportunity to receive follow-up digital resources including the key takeaways sheet, access to scientifically validated online assessments with scores and interpretive reports, and an excerpt from her book Broadcasting Happiness.

Fee Range: $15,000–$25,000
Travels From: NY

Professor Daniel Gilbert is one of the world’s leading experts on the science of happiness and decision-making. He is the author of the international bestseller Stumbling on Happiness. He is the host of the award-winning PBS television series, This Emotional Life, and his wildly popular TED talks have been watched more than 20 million times. His groundbreaking research on why people often don’t realize what will make them happy has profound implications for both individuals and their organizations.

Fee Range: $30,000–$50,000
Travels From: MA

Fee Range: $4,000–$15,000
Travels From: IN

David Glickman offers customized programs for the healthcare industry. By putting the "med" in comedy and the comedy in medicine, David Glickman offers a hilarious program of jokes, songs, and props designed to positively address the situations and frustrations that the typical healthcare professional deals with in his or her job. He provides non-offensive, non-invasive humor that's always clean and always clever.

Fee Range: $7,000–$10,000
Travels From: FL

• Former executive editor of Wired & Chief of Research at GoodRx • Bestselling author & entrepreneur on creating a culture of health

Fee Range: Inquire
Travels From: CA

Surviving a heart attack at age 35 while seven months pregnant with twins propelled Eliz Greene on a mission to share her story to inspire other busy people to pay attention to their health. Recognizing stress as an essential and often under-addressed risk factor, Eliz conducted a research study on job stress. Eliz is an author and writes a Top Health and Wellness Blog. She was named as a Top Online Influencer on Stress and Heart Health. She’s been seen on CNN, PBS, Lifetime, TNT, and many national and local news programs. A national spokesperson and advocate for the American Heart Association, Eliz received the Heart Hero Award in 2010. Organizations such as NASA and CVS have used her strategies to reduce workplace stress.

Fee Range: $13,000–$25,000
Travels From: WI

In 1986, Ed Hearn fulfilled his childhood dream as a member of the World Series Champion New York Mets. The following year with the Kansas City Royals, he was set to make those big "million dollar bank deposits" today's professional athletes are accustomed to, when suddenly, a serious shoulder injury brought a premature end to a very promising and brilliant career. Less than six months after his baseball career ended, he was diagnosed with three potentially life threatening health conditions. Once a strong, vibrant professional athlete, he was reduced to a man who could barely care for himself. Ed hung on, though, and used these physical challenges to make the most incredible comeback of his life. While battling these very challenging health issues the past ten years, Ed Hearn has become one of this nation's most highly sought after motivational speakers. His courage, faith and determination speak volumes as we face life's challenges.

Fee Range: $3,000–$7,500
Travels From: KS