KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Healthcare organizations measure performance constantly. Yet risk and inequity can accumulate even when care meets standards.

Sylvie Leotin brings a rare vantage point to this problem: a human systems architect trained in engineering and design who experienced healthcare as a cancer patient. From inside that experience — navigating medical errors, dismissal, and communication breakdowns while seriously ill — she saw patterns that remained invisible to the institution. That dual positioning allows her to see how modern healthcare systems register safety — and what they are not designed to detect.

Her keynotes challenge audiences to reconsider how safety, risk, and equity are defined, measured, and operationalized. Rather than focusing on clinician behavior, she reveals the structural patterns that shape outcomes across institutions. Through powerful storytelling grounded in her own journey, she makes abstract system failures viscerally real.

Drawing on three decades in systems engineering, technology leadership, and Genentech-funded research, she translates lived experience into system-level insight that conventional metrics do not capture.

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“Sylvie is a brilliant and passionate thought leader who is methodically revolutionizing the patient-provider relationship. Her experience as a talented multidisciplinary executive, scholar, entrepreneur, and cancer survivor empowers her message and singular mission of “equifying” healthcare. I had the great honor of hearing her keynote address this year, which left me feeling both stronger and inspired to more authentically address the holistic human needs of patients.”
— Beau Kelly, MD, MBA, FACS, FAST, American Society of Transplantation Board Member
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BOOKING INQUIRIES

Sylvie speaks at healthcare conferences, academic institutions, and leadership convenings nationwide.

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