Speaking Services

​Jessica Ellis-Willson (she/her or they/them) seeks to educate and entertain audiences around the globe! They are available for speaking engagements on a range of topics. Whether you are searching for a dynamic keynote, engaging breakout, or a creative and informative workshop, please contact us for more info!
Speaking Topics Examples
Healthcare
  • ​The Power of Apology
  • Healing Healthcare
  • Confronting Bias in Healthcare
  • Good Healthcare is Anti-Racist
Jessica also speaks specifically about the impact of bias and preventable medical errors on the lives of patients, families, and providers.  They are a former executive leader with 20+ years in healthcare who survived preventable medical errors and experienced adverse outcomes due to provider bias. Jessica also speaks about their brother, David, who was killed by a preventable medical error in 2018.
Leadership
  • Leading Change: Resilience and Leadership
  • Authentic leadership
  • We Rise By Lifting Others: Service Leadership
  • Leading with Purpose
  • Choosing Kindness in an Unkind World
  • Improv Your Leadership
  • Improv Your Teams 
As a former executive leader, Jessica brings experience, wisdom, and insight to all of their speaking engagements. Jessica also brings the unique perspective of being a working actor, director, and producer for stage and screen, as well as arts administration.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Cultural Competence and JEDI for Scaredy Cats
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion
  • Challenging Our Biases
  • Welcoming DEI
  • Ally is a Verb
  • Creating Inclusive Arts Organizations
​Jessica has 25 years of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion work, which they view as necessary and vital to improving our world. 
And Much More!
Jessica also talks about mental health, PTSD, wellness, creating authenticity, welcoming stillness and rest (without guilt), overcoming adversity, and thriving after trauma.
Keynote speaker appearances include:
  • Improv Your Leadership; New York MGMA Annual Conference; June 2022
  • Leading Change: Ally is a Verb; New England Regional MGMA Annual Conference; May 2022
  • Leading Change: Ally is a Verb; California MGMA Annual Conference; Apr 2022
  • Pandemic Leadership and Beyond: Learn, Adapt, Evolve; MA/RI MGMA Networking Event; Apr 2022
  • Breaking The Bias; Driven Cape Cod's International Women's Day Celebration; Mar 2022

Recent speaking engagements include:

  • Leadership Essentials: DEI&B, Teambuilding, & Mentoring; featured presenter, CORE MGMA; Mar 2023.
  • Inclusive Consent-Based Practices; featured presenter, Kennedy Center ACTF; R1, Jan 2023.
  • Breaking The Bias; featured speaker, Cranberry County Chamber Elements of Excellence Conference; MA. Oct 2022.
  • Improv Your Leadership; preconference workshop, MGMA Medical Practice Excellence:Leaders; Boston, MA, Oct 2022.
  • DEI for Scaredy Cats; featured extended session speaker, MGMA MPE:Leaders; as above.
  • Cultural Competence and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion; featured speaker, Mensa Annual Gathering; Nevada, July 2022.
  • Healing Healthcare; featured speaker, Maryland MGMA Annual Conference; Maryland, May 2022.
  • Ask the Inclusion Experts; featured speaker, New England Regional MGMA Conference; as above.
  • ​Improv Your Leadership; preconference workshop, Nevada MGMA Annual Conference; Mar 2022

Contact us today to discuss your challenges!