08/07/2026
From MasterChef Kitchen to the main stage.
This week I got to speak at the American Society for Health Care Engineering Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference in Minneapolis where over 3,000 healthcare professionals gathered to collaborate on managing the healthcare industry.
My co-presenter and I served up a fresh take on Leadership Styles, using clips from my team challenge (the one where we cooked for 100 soccer kids + US Men’s Soccer Coach Mauricio Pochettino Mauricio Pochettino ).
Spoiler: that challenge didn’t go my way. But every good leader knows the real skill is adjusting and learning on the fly … and that’s exactly what we dug into on stage.
Huge thanks to Dennis Ford, my co-presenter and President of ASHE, for jumping on stage with me.
And for anyone who just started following along: I’m an architect by training and I’ve spent my entire career in healthcare, helping health systems better manage their buildings and building systems. I’ve been an ASHE member for almost 30 years, and I’ve been coming to this conference for just about as long.
Same instinct behind both, really — the kitchen and the hospital. You’re making something that matters for other people. 🍽️
The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) is an organization of over 12,000 professionals who design, build, maintain, and operate hospitals.
