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Lead From Within
Know what anchors you so you can respond with more intention under pressure.
Lead from within
Speak with impact
Navigate conflict with skill
7-day replay access
Hosted by Transforming Healthcare Coaching
Featuring communication strategy from Salvatore Manzi
Conflict tools from Dr. R. Lee Sharma
Healthcare communication happens in moments that matter.
The communication challenge
The conversations that shape trust are often the ones people avoid.
Every day in healthcare, communication happens in moments that can change how people learn, work, trust, and care for one another.
- The team huddle where clarity matters.
- The teaching moment where feedback needs care.
- The presentation where your message needs to land.
- The tension everyone feels but no one has named.
Many healthcare professionals are trained to be clinically, operationally, or technically excellent. Fewer are given practical support for communicating with clarity, care, presence, and confidence under pressure.
This summit is the bridge: three expert-led sessions that help you ground yourself, make your message land, and approach conflict before it goes underground.
Team huddle
Teaching moment
Difficult conversation
Who this summit is for
For healthcare professionals.
Designed for people building their voice in medicine and healthcare: learners, trainees, physicians, leaders, educators, and clinicians navigating tension, visibility, feedback, and change.
Medical students
Residents and fellows
Senior trainees
Physicians
Frontline clinicians
Leaders
Faculty and educators
Nurses and APPs
The summit pathway
Three capacities for conversations that build trust.
The summit moves from the inside out: purpose, presence, and practical conflict skill.
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Speak With Impact
Use presence, pacing, voice, story, and authority so your message lands.
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Navigate Conflict With Skill
Stay clear, caring, and constructive when tension rises.
Session copy
Three sessions. Three experts. One essential communication skillset.
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Lead From Within: The Inner Work of Clear Communication
Lillian opens with the foundation: purpose, presence, authenticity, values, and the steadiness needed to communicate well under pressure.
- Communicate from groundedness instead of urgency.
- Clarify how values and purpose shape how you listen, speak, and respond.
- Return to clarity when pressure, complexity, or emotion rises.
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Speak With Presence: Communicating With Impact, Authority, and Trust
Salvatore brings the craft of clear and compelling communication: presence, voice, message, story, and the delivery choices that help words land.
- Speak with greater presence and authority.
- Make your message clearer and more memorable.
- Learn delivery methods used with TEDx speakers, entrepreneurs, and CEOs.
- Communicate with confidence without losing warmth or authenticity.
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Navigate Conflict With Skill: Clear and Caring Communication When Tension Rises
Lee introduces practical conflict tools, including the SPARC framework, for approaching disagreement and difficult workplace or training conversations.
- Recognize patterns of avoidance, defensiveness, or escalation.
- Communicate clearly without becoming harsh.
- Remain caring without avoiding accountability.
- Use shared language for conflict before it becomes a crisis.
Meet your summit guides
Three perspectives for one essential healthcare skillset.
Lillian Liang Emlet, MD MS CHSE CPC ELI-MP
Lillian is the founder of Transforming Healthcare Coaching, a physician, simulation educator, and certified professional coach. She helps healthcare professionals reconnect with clarity, purpose, values, and sustainable ways of working inside complex systems.
In this summit, Lillian anchors the inner work of clear and caring communication: how to return to groundedness and speak from purpose, presence, and authenticity.
Salvatore J. Manzi
Salvatore is a communications coach, facilitator, speaker, and author with two decades of experience helping people translate important ideas into clear, compelling messages. He has coached TEDx speakers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and professionals preparing for high-stakes communication moments.
In this summit, Salvatore helps healthcare professionals strengthen how they show up when they speak: how to organize a message, use pacing and presence, and communicate with confidence while staying human. His forthcoming book is Clear and Compelling.
R. Lee Sharma, MD
Dr. Lee Sharma is a physician, mediator, conflict analyst, consultant, and host of the Scalpel and Sword podcast. Her work helps healthcare professionals notice and address conflict earlier, before it becomes a crisis.
In this summit, Lee brings the conflict lens: how to recognize patterns of silence, defensiveness, escalation, and misalignment, then use practical language and the SPARC framework to move toward clarity, accountability, repair, and trust.
Reserve your spot
One ticket. Live access plus 7 days of recordings.
One ticket
Summit Ticket
$45
For participants who want the live summit experience and one week to revisit the material.
Included
- Live virtual summit access
- Three expert-led sessions
- 7 days of replay access
Secure checkout through Circle.
Questions
FAQ
Is this summit only for physicians?
No. It is designed for healthcare professionals across roles and stages, including medical students, residents, fellows, physicians, leaders, clinicians, nurses, APPs, educators, and healthcare professionals.
Will the summit be practical?
Yes. Each session offers insight and application, with language, reflection points, and tools you can apply to clinical, teaching, team, and workplace conversations.
Is this about public speaking?
Partly, but not only. The summit includes executive presence and communication impact, but it also focuses on purpose, authenticity, grounded communication, and practical conflict skills.
Is this relevant if I am not currently in conflict?
Yes. Conflict skills are most useful before tension becomes a crisis and are useful in everyday clinical, team, and training moments.
Is CME available?
CME is not currently listed for this summit. If CME becomes available, this page will be updated before registration opens.
Will recordings be available?
Yes. Your $45 summit ticket includes 7 days of replay access.
Where is the summit hosted?
The summit will be hosted virtually in Circle. Registration is completed through the secure Circle checkout linked on this page.
September 3, 2026 · 2:00 PM EST
Strengthen the conversations that shape trust, learning, teamwork, and care.
Join a virtual summit designed to help healthcare professionals lead from within, speak with impact, and navigate conflict with confidence and care.