When nurses are supported, the whole system heals and the right voices can help make that happen. This International Nurses Day 2025 and National Nursing Week, we’re highlighting the best speakers for nurses and healthcare teams. Nurses are leaders. They’re communicators, team builders, and patient advocates—often all within the same shift. And as the pressures on healthcare continue to mount, the need to elevate their voices has never been more urgent. These professional speakers educate on the heart of today’s healthcare challenges and offer actionable solutions on everything from burnout prevention in healthcare to leadership and communication.
Speakers for Nurses and Healthcare Teams
Erica Dhawan
The Future of Communication in Healthcare
What if the key to burnout prevention wasn’t just rest, but better communication? Erica Dhawan is a bestselling author and the world’s leading expert on Connectional Intelligence. Her keynote, Digital Body Language, gives healthcare teams practical tools to improve communication, reduce misunderstandings, and build stronger connections in high-pressure environments. Her message hits home for nurses and administrators alike: if communication is broken, your team will be too. Erica helps audiences rethink how they show up, speak up, and support each other—on and off the floor.
Why event planners love her: Erica Dhawan’s sessions are dynamic, interactive, grounded in evidence, and deeply empathetic. She’s a speaker who truly “gets” how hard healthcare work can be, and what it takes to build trust among colleagues who are running on empty.
Thinkers50 called Erica “The Oprah of Management Ideas”, while Global Guru’s named her one of the “World’s Top 30 Motivational Speakers”. Erica was also recently named to the Real Leaders Top 50 Keynote Speakers List for the third year in a row!
Watch Erica Dhawan impress audiences in her speaker reel!
Interested in workplace culture? Read Erica’s latest segment on digital communication in npr’s Life Kit.
Jessica Hanson, RN
Real Talk from the Frontlines
“We can’t talk about resilience without talking about recovery.”
That’s a message you’ll often hear from Jessica Hanson, RN—a powerhouse voice for nurses who’s worked everywhere from critical care to community outreach. Jessica blends clinical experience with powerful storytelling to speak candidly about boundaries, belonging, and burnout prevention in healthcare.
In her talks, she tackles the tough stuff head-on: the pressure to “tough it out,” the culture of overwork, and what happens when empathy becomes exhaustion. But she also offers solutions—real, practical steps to help nurses lead change from where they are.
Why audiences love her: Jessica Hanson is one of those rare speakers who can move a room to laughter and tears in the same session. She brings vulnerability, strength, and a big dose of humanity to every event she’s part of.
Jeremy Allen
Creating Space for Grief in Healthcare
In the healthcare world, grief is often unspoken but never absent. Jeremy Allen is working to change that. As a licensed funeral director, grief educator, and co-founder of Death Ed., Jeremy helps healthcare professionals, caregivers, and communities confront grief with openness, empathy, and humanity. His mission is to remove the fear and stigma surrounding loss—especially in environments where grief is experienced daily but rarely acknowledged.
Through his talks, Jeremy provides grief and loss education for healthcare teams, helping them better support patients, families, and even one another. He gives teams the language, tools, and understanding to talk about loss without shutting down emotionally and without trying to “fix” something that simply needs space.
Why audiences connect with him: Jeremy Allen brings clarity and calm to one of the most complex emotions we experience. His message is both grounding and hopeful, and it helps healthcare professionals reconnect with their purpose in moments of overwhelm, loss, or emotional exhaustion.
André Picard
A Health System Worth Fighting For
When André Picard talks, Canada listens. As one of the country’s most respected health journalists, André has spent decades covering the healthcare system—its failures, its triumphs, and the frontline workers who keep it going. His perspective is essential for any event that wants to dig deeper into the systemic roots of burnout, workforce shortages, and leadership gaps.
André’s keynotes don’t just highlight what’s wrong. They shine a light on what’s possible. He speaks to decision-makers, healthcare professionals, and the public with equal clarity—offering thoughtful, research-backed insights into how to build a more sustainable system, and what it means to truly support our nurses.
Why event organizers book him: André Picard brings authority and context to conversations that are often emotional and urgent. He helps connect the dots between policy and practice—something every healthcare event needs more of.
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These speakers each offer something vital:
- Erica Dhawan shows us how to rebuild trust and communication
- Jessica Hanson, RN reminds us that leadership starts with listening
- Jeremy Allen brings clarity to the complex emotions associated with grief and loss
- André Picard helps us zoom out and look at the full picture
Nurses are more than a workforce. They are a lifeline. And when we invest in their well-being—through better systems, better teams, and better leadership—everybody benefits.
Honouring National Nursing Week: A Call to Recognize and Reinvest
National Nursing Week and International Nurses Day 2025 is more than a calendar date. It’s a chance to recognize the people who carry the weight of our healthcare system—often quietly and without enough support. It reminds event planners, healthcare leaders, and conference organizers of an opportunity to uplift the voices of those who rarely take center stage.
Planning a leadership summit, a staff appreciation day, or a national health conference? Consider how you can include the perspectives of nurses and the people who advocate for them. At Talent Bureau, we work with speakers who bring firsthand experience, research-backed insight, and heartfelt storytelling to the stage. Whether your audience includes frontline professionals, administrators, policymakers, or students, we’ll help you find a voice that resonates.
Let’s build events that reflect the reality and the brilliance of our healthcare heroes. Explore more professional healthcare speakers at talentbureau.com or contact a Talent Bureau agent for personalized recommendations.
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