Healthcare keynotes
Healthcare teams know where the friction is. Talking about it and deciding what to do next is often harder.
Dr. Peter Valenzuela brings humor, candid stories, and practical ideas to the challenges of leading change, drawing on his experience leading medical groups, building a company, and creating healthcare cartoons.
Keynote example
Watch a short excerpt from Innovations for Reducing Administrative Burden in Family Medicine for a look at Peter’s speaking style and approach to a challenge clinicians face every day.
What colleagues and organizers say
“Dr. Valenzuela is not just a leader in the medical industry, he might be THE LEADER—his progressive and outside-of-the-box approach to our field is truly taking us to the next level. I had the pleasure of attending a seminar that Dr. Valenzuela facilitated, which was essentially a case study, where I felt that I learned more in just one hour than I had the entire two days previous.”
Signature keynote
What healthcare humor reveals about the way we work.
Sometimes a cartoon says what everyone in the room has been thinking.
Using his original Doc-Related cartoons, Peter invites audiences to explore the everyday frustrations that strain relationships between clinicians and administrators. Shared laughter creates an opening for an honest conversation about what needs to change.
These original Doc-Related strips capture moments healthcare professionals recognize and offer a starting point for conversations teams often struggle to have. Select a cartoon to enlarge it for reading.
Founder keynote
You see a problem worth solving. What comes next?
Physicians encounter problems every day that could become opportunities for innovation.
The challenge is figuring out which ideas deserve more time and how to test them while balancing an already demanding career. Peter shares his experience building BillDecoder alongside his clinical and executive work, including the experiments, wrong turns, and difficult decisions along the way.
Continue the conversation
A keynote can introduce a new perspective. A workshop gives your team time to put it into practice.
Facilitated breakout · 60–90 minutes
Participants use selected cartoons to identify a recurring problem, explore different perspectives, and agree on a next step. Give your team time to apply the keynote to its own challenges.
Facilitated retreat conversation
When everyone is involved, but no one knows who decides. Participants examine a shared challenge, clarify who can make the decision, and identify what needs to happen next when work stalls between people, teams, and departments.
After The Punchline Is Data
Pair The Punchline Is Data with the Dyad Alignment Lab to work through challenges between clinical and administrative leaders.
After The Accidental Founder · eight weeks
An eight-week program that helps teams evaluate frontline ideas, choose the most promising opportunities, and develop pilot proposals for organizational sponsors.
Explore the Clinician Innovation SprintLimited pilot cohort · 12 weeks
A small, 12-week cohort for physicians ready to explore an idea. Through customer interviews, a simple test, and a practical pilot plan, participants build the evidence they need for an informed next decision.
Discovery-skills workshop
Certified Innovator’s DNA discovery-skills training is included in the Clinician Innovation Sprint and is also available as a separate workshop.
Logistics and booking
Tell Peter about your event, who will be in the room, and what you hope they’ll take away. Together, you can choose a keynote or facilitated session that fits.