The only practicing clinician to graduate from Stanford's d.school.
Where medicine, design, and military leadership converge.
Most speakers come from one world. Andrew has spent his career at the intersection of three that rarely meet: medicine, design, and military leadership. The result isn't a talking point — it's the engine behind every talk he gives.
He is the only practicing clinician to have graduated from the Stanford program that pioneered Design Thinking. He then worked at IDEO and Jump Associates — the world's leading innovation strategy firm — applying these frameworks to hard problems for Kaiser and Humana. His leadership foundations were built at the US Naval Academy and tested over twelve years of service. Read his full background →
His audiences have called him inspiring to life-changing. One of his favorite compliments came from a security guard at a healthcare lecture who said he "loved it so much he took notes the whole time."
Every keynote is customized for the specific audience, organization, and event. These are the topic areas Andrew has developed through years of delivery — he will tailor the angle, depth, and examples to what your room actually needs.
The healthcare crisis isn't a technology problem or a policy problem — it's a people problem. Andrew makes the case that the most undervalued, underutilized solution is already in the room: the clinicians who deliver care every day. A practical and galvanizing talk about empowering the human infrastructure of healthcare.
What if the most powerful diagnostic tool a clinician has isn't a test — it's a process? Andrew translates Stanford's Design Thinking framework into the clinical context: understanding the real problem before leaping to solutions. Practical, immediately applicable, and grounded in real cases. Attendees leave with a reframe they'll use on Monday.
Leadership isn't a position — it's a practice. Drawing on twelve years of naval service and a career at the intersection of medicine, design, and innovation, Andrew reframes leadership as something every clinician and innovator already exercises. He helps audiences do it with greater intention, clarity, and impact.
Burnout in healthcare isn't incidental — it's structural. As a practicing psychiatrist who treats clinicians and innovators for burnout, Andrew speaks to the psychological cost of doing hard work in broken systems, and the specific practices that sustain momentum over the long arc of a career. Deeply personal, clinically grounded.
Workshops go further than keynotes. Andrew designs them to leave participants with tools they'll actually use — not just inspiration that fades by Monday morning.
Andrew's cornerstone workshop — delivered at the APA Annual Meeting, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and institutions across Asia. He breaks down the Design Thinking process into three core stages — Understanding the Problem, Ideation, and Prototyping — and applies them to the challenges facing your organization. Teams leave with a shared framework and a concrete prototype of a solution to a real problem in their work.
A practical, grounded exploration of leadership that moves well past management theory. Andrew draws on his Naval Academy training, clinical career, and innovation consulting to distill what leadership actually looks like under pressure — and gives participants frameworks they can apply immediately, whether they lead a team of two or two hundred.
Developed for medical students and early-career clinicians, this workshop challenges the assumption that medicine and creativity are separate domains. Andrew's interactive sessions have inspired hundreds of medical students across Asia to think differently about patient care — described by program directors as infectious and transformative. Delivered for VIA Comparative Healthcare Programs since 2014.
Andrew customizes every engagement to the specific audience, context, and goals of your organization. Complete the form and he or his team will respond within two business days.
Every inquiry is treated as a real conversation — not a booking pipeline. If it's not the right fit, Andrew will say so, and point you toward someone who is.
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