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Wayne Sotile

Wayne Sotile, Ph.D.

His entertaining programs examine high performers. How they think, act, and interact with their peers. He empowers audiences to let go of what is holding them back, take charge, and make a difference

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  • $20,000 - $25,000
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  • Adversity
  • Change
  • Humor
  • Inspirational
  • Mental Health
  • Motivation
  • Peak Performance
  • Resilience
  • Wellness
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  • Healthcare/Medical
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    Clinical psychologist Wayne M. Sotile, PhD is the founder of The Sotile Center for Resilience.

     As an international thought leader on physician behavior and resilience for high-performing health professionals, he consults widely with medical group practices, health care systems, and corporations interested in learning evidence-based strategies for deepening collaboration and collegiality and promoting team engagement while coping with change. 

    Dr. Sotile has published widely in the peer-reviewed medical literature, including featured articles in JAMA, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, World Neurosurgery, and Clinical OBGYN. His work is featured frequently in the national print and television media. He has authored or co-authored ten books, including 

    Thriving in Healthcare: A Guide to Choosing Resilience Over Burnout in Your Busy Life (with Gary Simonds, M.D., Huron Studer Group, 2019).

    Thriving Physicians: How to Curb Burnout and Choose Resilience Throughout Your Medical Career (with Gary Simonds, M.D.; Huron Studer Group, 2018).

    Dr. Sotile has delivered more than 8,000 invited addresses and workshops to corporate and medical audiences, including invited presentations to the American Medical Association Leadership Conference, the International Conference on Physician Wellness, VHA Chief Nurses Conference,  American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American Academy of Medical Administrators, and numerous meetings of medical and nursing specialty societies, hospital communities, and corporate audiences. Since 2008 he has served as a preferred speaker for Studer Group

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    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Motivational

    Without trivializing the magnitude of what we are facing, Dr. Sotile provides a compassionate call to attend to the evidence-based factors that foster positive coping with unfolding change….for individuals, families, and teams.

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Motivational

    In this session, Dr. Sotile discusses how each of us can help to make our workplace a positive emotional culture. Learn tactics and strategies for deepening teamwork, and how you can recognize and intervene helpfully with colleagues that are stressed.

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Motivational

    Learn to identify and change coping habits and patterns that are holding you back from next-level wellbeing and satisfaction, at work and home.

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Motivational

    A panel of leaders and I discuss the contemporary call to new levels of professionalism across disciplines and how to intervene when a colleague shows disruptive, disrespectful, or distressing workplace behaviors.

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Motivational

    Local leaders and I discuss my WIRED™ framework for effective leadership and wellness: Emphasize Wellness; seek Input from those you love and lead; generously offer Recognition for what is going right; train to promote Efficacy for skills required in our new normal; and repeatedly create forums for Dialogue between all team (or family) members.

    Keynote OR Breakout | Educational | Motivational

    Coping strategies for sustaining personal and team resilience as we create and navigate our unfolding New Normal are discussed.

    Keynote | Educational | Humorous | Inspirational

    Happiness is a choice that yields big dividends – personally and professionally. This presentation combines practical advice from cutting-edge research in health psychology with common-sense lessons learned from 60,000 hours of counseling experience with 7,000 high-performing people and consultation with 400 leading corporations. (Plus, Dr. Sotile sprinkles in a good dose of Cajun humor!) The Sotiles’ model for keeping the flame alive at work and home has national television and corporate audiences throughout the country raving. Come and learn how being a hero at work and home go hand-in-hand, and find out how you how can do it!

    Keynote | Humorous | Inspirational | Motivational

    Dr. Wayne Sotile teaches Cajun life-lessons. Learn how lagniappe (giving “a little something extra”), protecting your relationships, and paying attention to ducks, chickens, and dogs can save your life and help you to thrive! The perfect keynote for teaching serious people how to laugh at themselves and build resilience, this is a talk that will leave you smiling, thinking, and reaching out to help each other.

    Keynote | Educational | Humorous | Inspirational | Motivational

    A vital part of any healthcare leader’s role is to bring out the best in people. Doing so requires driving accountability while helping others to get beyond psychological barriers that interfere with passionate engagement in meaningful work. Unfortunately, the more stressful the work challenges, the more likely are leaders to ignore the evidence-based fundamentals that promote and sustain high-passion individual and team engagement. 

     

    In this session, clinical psychologist Wayne Sotile, author of Letting Go of What’s Holding You Back, teaches practical applications of the broad fields of motivational psychology, performance management, and leadership resilience. Drawing material from his 35 years of experience as a change agent in his work with individuals, families, teams, and healthcare organizations, Wayne charms and challenges audience members, and shows them how they can move beyond whatever might be holding them back from the personal ” best” – whatever that best might be. Throughout his message, Wayne weaves hilarious Cajun humor and heartwarming stories that never fail to lift the spirits and warm the hearts of his audiences. Wayne’s work in this area was described this way by one physician audience member: “Wayne Sotile could motivate a stick to change.”  Either as a keynote or extended workshop, this presentation will provide participants with a toolkit of skills for better understanding and motivating others while enjoying themselves in the process.  

  • Testimonials
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    “This is the first standing ovation I have seen a group of physicians give a speaker.”

    Davita Corporation CJ M.
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    “Wayne Sotile could motivate a stick to change.”

    Psychiatrist and Author MONA LISA SCHULTZ, M.D., PH.D.
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    “I would pay to listen to him read the Yellow Pages. The best speaker I've heard in 30 years of attending conferences.”

    Men's Health Conference Physician
I would pay to listen to him read the Yellow Pages. The best speaker I've heard in 30 years of attending conferences.
Men's Health Conference Physician