Inspirational Keynote Speaker

Experience a passionate, wise and caring healer who helps people transform their lives by showing them how to rise above their limitations, remove their roadblocks, rekindle their dreams and become the principal agents in their own professional and personal lives.

Carl A. Hammerschlag is a master storyteller and internationally recognized author, physician, speaker and healer. A Yale trained psychiatrist; he has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. Read his complete biography.

Topics

The Way It Was, Is Not The Way It Is,
and Your Experience Could Be Your Worst Enemy!
To meet today's demands means not being crippled by preconceptions. Your old ways of thinking can stifle creativity. The task in this electronic marketplace is to unlearn old judgmentalisms that inhibit vision. Not since the advent of the printing press has the world seen such rapid change in the way information is shared and how business gets done. To maintain the competitive advantage in today's explosively changing environment means more than having access to information, it has to do with how you process that information and come up with new ideas.

The Journey of Heroes: Facing Challenge, Choice and Change
Change is the biological order of the universe. How you come to those changes is more important than the challenges they represent. It's hard for us to change, as a species we seem to want to maintain the status quo. We are comfortable with the familiar even if it keeps us from achieving greater success by doing things differently. Sometime in our lives we will face difficult and serious challenges. If we can balance our fear of change with our hopes for the future then we can transform threats into opportunities. In his inimitable style with humor and poignancy, this storyteller, doctor, healer, grandfather, sculptor and fly fishermen will guide you on a transformative experience of discovery that will all ow you to become the hero of your own life's journey.

Creating the New Competitive Advantage:
The Last Mask of the Authentic Leader
Only when we shed the masks that inhibit growth and learn to explore our preconceptions and face our fears can we take the risks to become great leaders. In this age of public scrutiny and accountability, Dr. H discusses leadership in terms of pursuing authenticity; creating environments that encourage risk-taking; appreciating the power of the unconscious, intuitive mind; and transmitting the clearest sense of mission and values.

Healthcare at the Crossroads: Sustaining our Healing Spirit
This is a time in which the trajectories of culture, economics and technology are colliding to threaten the care of patients. When the tail of cost control wags the dog of healthcare delivery then the profession becomes just another industry. Most of us came into this field because it was a ministry. The economics of healthcare is causing a crisis of faith between providers and patients who no longer believe that clinical decisions are made solely on the basis on what they need. We must address this crisis because new medical advances are raising more financial and ethical questions. We must restore our trust and commitments to each other if we are to sustain our calling and cause.