Social Change Futurist™ leading Innovation through Patient-Centered AI

Sheila Phicil is a dynamic keynote speaker & innovation leader, with nearly 20 years experience in transforming healthcare systems and startups, who excels in storytelling that draws from her own journey, blending authenticity with strategy.

As founder of Phicil-itate Change and creator of the AI powered Listen Phirst™ platform, Sheila equips audiences with practical frameworks to build trusted, scalable healthcare solutions that truly serve patients - making her a standout voice for organizations seeking impact and relevance.

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Meet Sheila Phicil

As a Social Change Futurist™, Sheila Phicil, MPH, MS, PMP, FACHE, stands at the intersection of healthcare innovation, social justice, and systemic transformation.

She is the visionary founder of Phicil-itate Change and the architect behind the groundbreaking Listen Phirst™ Platform.

Sheila's journey began in the trenches of healthcare delivery, where she witnessed firsthand how systemic inequities created barriers to optimal patient outcomes. This experience sparked her mission to reimagine healthcare through the lens of justice, equity, and patient-centered innovation.

Her proprietary SEEDS Innovation Framework has revolutionized how organizations approach healthcare transformation by guiding innovators on how to achieve product-system fits. Through this methodology, Sheila helps health care innovators and leaders embed equity into AI design, accelerate innovation through co-design, and build trust through transparent data practices.

Today, Sheila is recognized as a thought leader who doesn't just inspire—she provides concrete, actionable strategies that create lasting change. Her presentations combine deep industry expertise with practical tools that audiences can implement immediately.

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Why to book Sheila

✔ Proven SEEDS Innovation Framework

A practical, tested playbook for leading smart, inclusive, and sustainable innovation that ensures product-system fit – already driving change across startups, health systems, and social ventures.

✔ Insider Experience Transforming Systems

With nearly 20 years leading health system innovation and coaching startups, Sheila brings deep expertise on what truly fosters adoption, trust, and lasting healthcare impact.

✔ Health Tech Innovation in Action

Sheila actively builds breakthrough health tech like the Listen Phirst™ Platform, demonstrating real-world patient-centered, ethical, and scalable solutions that solve adoption challenges ignored by most innovators.

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Keynote Speaking Topics

Transformational presentations that deliver actionable insights and measurable outcomes

The New DEI: From Diversity to Data Sovereignty

This talk reframes equity in the age of AI - moving beyond representation to focus on data rights, consent, and power.

🎯Ideal for:

Health tech summits, DEI strategy teams, innovation & ethics conferences, digital policy forums

✅ Key Outcomes:

A clear framework for designing technology that centers the most vulnerable populations.

SEEDS of Change: Innovation That Grows What Matters

An AI-driven patient insight platform for health tech innovations to accelerate product-market fit, retention, and long-term ROI through patient-aligned design.

🎯Ideal for:

Startup accelerators, venture studios, product teams, innovation hubs,health system design labs

✅ Key Outcomes:

A practical roadmap to build healthcare solutions that work, scale, and last.

Designing for Trust: Healing What Innovation Alone Can’t

In healthcare systems marked by historic harm and ongoing lack of representation, trust isn’t optional - it’s a strategic necessity.

🎯Ideal for:

Healthcare leaders, patient experience teams, medical educators, health equity forums

✅ Key Outcomes:

Actionable tools for building systems that prove themselves worthy of belief and belonging.

The Future We Deserve: AI, Agency & the End of Extraction

This keynote challenges extractive models of innovation by tracing the legacy of how systems exploit what they fail to value.

🎯Ideal for:

AI and ethics summits, social impact convenings, digital equity roundtables, policy and innovation institutes

✅ Key Outcomes:

Insight into how AI can be reclaimed as a tool for restoration, equity, and patient-led transformation.

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Speaking & Facilitation Services

Comprehensive solutions for your event and organizational needs

Keynote Speaking

45-90 minute transformational presentations that inspire action and provide concrete tools for change.

✔ Custom content development

✔ Post-event resources

✔ Follow-up consultation

✔ Digital toolkit for attendees

Facilitation

Half-day or full-day or series interactive learning experiences designed to build strategic innovation skills and drive implementation.

✔ Hands-on exercises

✔ Comprehensive toolkit

✔ Implementation planning

✔ 90-day follow-up support

Panel Speaking/ Moderation

Expert facilitation of industry discussions that create meaningful dialogue and actionable insights.

✔ Pre-event preparation

✔ Dynamic moderation

✔ Key insights synthesis

✔ Post-event summary report

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Ready to Transform Your Event?

Limited availability - book early to secure your preferred dates

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Booking Process

1. Submit Speaker Request — Share your event details and requirements.
2. Discovery Call — 15-minute conversation to understand your needs.
3. Proposal & Agreement — Custom proposal with scope and investment.
4. Content Development — Tailored presentation for your audience.
5. Event Delivery — Transformational experience for your attendees.

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