Unlock innovation, drive better outcomes and build creative capacity across your healthcare organization with battle-tested frameworks from Healthcare keynote speaker Josh Linkner.
Key trends and opportunities that Josh helps leaders navigate
Josh has deep, hands-on experience in healthcare. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Corewell Health (21 hospitals, 60,000 team members) and has helped drive innovation at industry leaders including Cardinal Health, GSK, Medtronic, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente. For leaders navigating the intersection of patient care, regulatory complexity, and rapid technological change, Josh delivers a practical blueprint for building a culture of innovation—one that drives growth, improves patient outcomes, strengthens competitive advantage, and empowers every person on the org chart to think and act like an innovator.
Read Josh's latest insights on AI in Healthcare & Biotech.
The Digital-First Care Model
A fundamental reimagining of the care model—one that puts patients at the center and uses creative problem-solving to cut through complexity. The organizations leading this charge are making Big Little Breakthroughs that compound over time, improving access, outcomes, and efficiency all at once.
Turning Financial Headwinds into Innovation Fuel
Inventive thinking is mission critical here. The leaders who thrive in this environment are reimagining workflows, rethinking team structures, and unlocking front-line ingenuity to do more with less. In an industry where burnout is rampant, a culture of innovation is the most practical path to retaining talent, improving care quality, and finding financial sustainability.
AI as an Organizational and Clinical Game-Changer
Successful healthcare organizations of the future will also embrace an AI-first strategy to boost operational efficiency, improve safety, increase margins, and elevate employee engagement. AI has become as important in the business of healthcare as it is on the front lines of clinical care.
The opportunity is enormous—and so is the leadership challenge. AI amplifies the need for human creativity and judgment. The organizations gaining ground are the ones pairing AI’s analytical horsepower with a culture that encourages inventive thinking at every level—from the C-suite to the nursing station.
Genomic Medicine Goes Mainstream
Scaling these innovations demands creative leadership. The real challenge is embedding genomic insights into routine care and ensuring equitable access across populations. That takes a culture of innovation where people at every level feel empowered to solve problems, challenge assumptions, and drive change from the inside out.
The Patient as Partner
When patients are engaged as partners in their own care—armed with data from the devices on their wrists—outcomes improve and loyalty deepens. The biggest gains in healthcare come from practical, everyday improvements that accumulate over time.
Building a culture of innovation in large companies is critically important,
and there’s no better way to learn than with a trusted roadmap of tools and real-life examples. Josh Linkner illustrates how innovative thinking is possible for every employee and business leader, so we can all unlock our full creative potential."
Mike Kaufman
CEO, Cardinal Health
Your presentation was fantastic and really delivered on our theme.
We’ve heard nothing but great feedback about the information you shared and have no doubt many of our teams will be using your model for the future. It was a pleasure working with you and we appreciated the effort you put in to ensuring the presentation met the meeting objectives and was relevant and entertaining for our broad audience."
Traci Plate
Chief of Staff North America, GSK Consumer Healthcare
You nailed your message and nicely incorporated our company into your talk."
Dr. Gregory F. Molinar
Director of Neuromodulation Research, Medtronic
Thanks again for giving a very inspiring and thought-provoking speech.
Members of the team were blown away by your message and walked away with tools to succeed in their role as innovators."
Jessica L. Locke
Director - Office of the President, Kaiser Permanente
Hi, I'm Josh.
Josh Linkner — a New York Times bestselling author — is a rare blend of business, art, and science.
On the business front, he’s been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which created over 10,000 jobs and sold for a combined value of over $200 million.
He’s the co-founder and Managing Partner of Muditā Venture Partners - an early-stage venture capital firm investing in groundbreaking technologies.
Over the last 30 years, he’s helped over 100 startups launch and scale, creating over $1 billion in investor returns. He’s twice been named the EY Entrepreneur of The Year and is the recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change Award.
He’s also deeply involved in the healthcare & biotech industry. Josh serves on the Board of Trustees of Corewell Health (21 hospitals, 60,000 team members) and has helped drive innovation at industry-leading healthcare companies such as Cardinal Health, GSK, Medtronic, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente.
While proud of his business success, his roots are in the dangerous world of jazz music. He’s been playing guitar in smoky jazz clubs for 40 years, studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, and has performed over 1000 concerts around the world.
His experiences in both business and music led him to become one of the world’s foremost experts on innovation. Josh is the co-founder and Chairman of Platypus Labs, a global research, training, and consulting firm.
Today, he’s on a mission to help leaders Find A Way™ through creative problem-solving, inventive thinking, and ingenuity.
Keynote Topics
+ Outcomes
Find A WayTM
Every problem can be solved, and every opportunity can be seized. Through a proven innovative framework, you'll discover new paths to explosive growth, competitive advantage, and sustainable results.
Expand organization-wide capability for creative problem-solving and inventive thinking.
Big Little BreakthroughsTM
Instead of high-risk moonshots, the most innovative leaders cultivate a high volume of ‘micro-innovations’ and build a culture of everyday innovation.
Gain the tools to become an everyday innovator.
The Music of Business
What business leaders can learn about agility, collaboration, creativity, and performance under pressure from the mysterious world of jazz.
Inject artistry and agility into your business through an unforgettable, interactive experience.
*Please note this topic requires additional talent + gear. Accordingly, additional costs apply.
The Innovative Leader
Become an unstoppable force by unlocking your and your team's ingenuity, gaining confidence, and boosting results in times of dramatic uncertainty and disruption.
Elevate your capacity to lead and win in volatile times.
Disciplined DreamingTM
A proven system for driving breakthrough creativity. Learn how to balance raw imagination with business rigor to achieve profound and predictable results.
Boost creativity and rigor simultaneously to achieve better outcomes.
Rethink. Reboot.
Reinvent.
The business you’ll be running in five years will be dramatically different than today. Unlock the definitive playbook on reinvention, relevancy, and sustainable success.
Gain the confidence to venture into the unknown and thrive, no matter what the future brings.
Innovation in the Age of AI
A modern framework to unlock sustained profitable growth at the intersection of technology and human creativity.
Josh shows you how the path forward involves integrating human creativity with artificial intelligence to thrive amidst uncertainty, rapid change, and disruption.
For Healthcare & Biotech Meeting Professionals
5 Ways Josh Turns Your Event Up To "11"
Sparks a mindset & movement.
His authentic, relatable, research-backed content - with real-world case studies and a high-energy delivery - will inspire your audience to uncover and activate new opportunities every day.
Moves your team into action.
Your audience will not only be energized, motivated, and inspired, they’ll become better equipped with specific tools, frameworks, and techniques to drive meaningful results in the months and years ahead.
Handcrafted, not canned.
Josh takes the time to listen deeply before custom-building a keynote experience just for you. This ensures that every minute is on-point, relevant, and targeted to your unique challenges and opportunities.
Real and accessible.
Josh applies Find A Way™ principles in his everyday work as a leader, venture capitalist, musician, and author. Leaders inspired by his keynote often reach out to him for help finding a way in their everyday work.
Impact - 11, Drama - 0.
Coming from a place of humility and service, Josh believes that a great keynote is about the audience, not the speaker. Meeting professionals often call Josh one of the best keynote speakers to work with.