Speaking topic
The Leader I Needed Is the Leader I Became
A keynote drawn from childhood hospital rooms, bedside nursing and executive leadership, and what each one taught about compassion and accountability.
This is a Founder keynote. Requests for our Founder, Rashonbah T. Rogers, follow a distinct approval path and are confirmed only after review.
Audience
Who this session is for
- Conference general sessions
- Association and commencement events
- Nursing and healthcare audiences
- Mixed leadership audiences looking for a narrative keynote
Content
What the session covers
- The experience of being cared for well as a child, and what that memory demands of a leader later
- What bedside nursing teaches about presence and accountability
- The cost of caring without protection, told through lived experience
- Leadership as something that either builds people or breaks them
Outcomes
What participants take away
- A renewed sense of why the work matters, grounded in a specific story rather than a slogan
- Three leadership commitments drawn from the talk
- A shared vocabulary for compassion and accountability held together
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