Keynote Speaker · Author · Organizational Consultant

I make the
invisible cost
of broken systems
visible.

Chronic illness. AI in healthcare. The performance people pay to belong. I work with organizations ready to ask the questions that actually change things.

Roi Shternin speaking at TEDxMedUniGraz
27
Countries
20k+
Clinicians Trained
7
Books
10+
Years Speaking
Topics
Healthcare· AI Ethics· DEI & Inclusion· Organizational Change· Leadership· Patient Advocacy· Chronic Illness· Systems Thinking· Healthcare· AI Ethics· DEI & Inclusion· Organizational Change· Leadership· Patient Advocacy· Chronic Illness· Systems Thinking·
Organisations
Boehringer Ingelheim· Takeda· PwC· Siemens Healthineers· Vinzenz Group· Ludwig Boltzmann Institute· IMC Krems University· TEDxMedUniGraz· Boehringer Ingelheim· Takeda· PwC· Siemens Healthineers· Vinzenz Group· Ludwig Boltzmann Institute· IMC Krems University· TEDxMedUniGraz·
Press & Media
The Marker· Ynet· Der Standard· Kronen Zeitung· Jerusalem Post· Boehringer Ingelheim· Stanford Laptop Radio· Ludwig Boltzmann Society· Dataconomy· NRG / Makor Rishon· Radio Tel Aviv 103FM· Medianet Austria· The Marker· Ynet· Der Standard· Kronen Zeitung· Jerusalem Post· Boehringer Ingelheim· Stanford Laptop Radio· Ludwig Boltzmann Society· Dataconomy· NRG / Makor Rishon· Radio Tel Aviv 103FM· Medianet Austria·

"I spent seven years bedridden. The medical system didn't know what to do with me — so it did what systems do with things they can't categorize: it made me invisible.

That's not my backstory. That's my qualification."

Current Talks

Three talks. One through-line.

The Algorithm Will See You Now

The Algorithm Will See You Now

When AI inherits our assumptions, it doesn't fix our blind spots — it accelerates them. A talk about bias, data, and what happens when the machine learns from a broken system.

Healthcare AI Ethics Technology
The Performance Tax workshop

The Performance Tax

Every person who hides who they are to survive your culture is paying a tax. The organization pays it too — in cognitive load, in sick days, in silence. This is what it actually costs.

DEI Inclusion Leadership
Revolution from My Bed

Revolution from My Bed

What constraint teaches you that abundance never can. A talk about building meaningful work — not despite limitation, but through it. Seen in 40+ countries. Featured at TEDxMedUniGraz.

Resilience Entrepreneurship Healthcare
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Roi Shternin

Vienna, Austria · Available Globally

Not the patient who recovered.
The patient who went back in.

I spent a decade being failed by medicine. Dismissed, misdiagnosed, made invisible by a system that didn't have a category for what I was. Then I became the person who goes back into those systems and names what they're missing.

I've spoken in 27 countries — to hospital boards, pharmaceutical companies, AI ethics committees, DEI leadership teams, and conference audiences who came expecting inspiration and left with a diagnostic tool they didn't know they needed.

I'm not a survivor who became a motivational speaker. I'm an organizational consultant who happens to be the evidence. When I walk into a room, I bring the patient experience that never made it into the data, the employee whose illness never showed up on any HR report, the human the algorithm couldn't categorize.

I founded the Israeli Society for Dysautonomia and The Patient School, served as the world's first Patient in Residence at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Vienna, co-founded the Israeli TEDx movement, and have trained over 20,000 healthcare professionals globally. I hold an MA in International Health & Social Management and teach patient communications at IMC Krems.

I live in Vienna with my partner Theresa and our daughter, for whom I am writing the most honest book I'll ever write.

Ludwig Boltzmann InstituteWorld's First Patient in Residence
IMC Krems UniversityPatient Communications Faculty
MA International HealthSocial Management
TEDxMedUniGraz 2025"The Algorithm Will See You Now"
Dell Precision AmbassadorTechnology & Innovation
Israeli TEDx MovementCo-founder
tinyMHA ↗Constraint-Based Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Books

Written for the people the system forgot to write for.

Fascia book cover
For: Patients, clinicians, anatomy enthusiasts

Fascia: The Amazing Organ You've Never Heard Of

Co-created with illustrator Nadine Wiese. The hidden architecture of the human body — beautifully visualized, finally explained. For anyone whose pain didn't fit the standard map.

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The Algorithm Will See You Now book cover
For: Healthcare leaders, AI practitioners, patients

The Algorithm Will See You Now

What happens when artificial intelligence learns from a system that was already broken. A book about bias, data, and the human cost of getting this wrong.

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Revolution from My Bed book cover
For: Anyone building something from limitation

Revolution from My Bed

The constraint-based entrepreneurship manifesto. Not inspiration. A framework for people who are building meaningful work with whatever they actually have.

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Letters
to My
Daughter
For: Anyone who has lived in a body that wouldn't cooperate

Letters to My Daughter · In Progress

What it actually means to live with chronic illness — not overcome it. Not optimize around it. Not perform recovery for an audience. Written in letters to the person who deserves the unrevised version.

Coming soon
What Do Patients Want book cover
For: Clinicians, healthcare communicators, medical educators

What Do Patients Want?

The question most healthcare systems never actually ask. A practical guide to patient-centred communication — for the clinicians who want to close the gap between what they say and what patients actually hear.

Get the book →
The ABC of Public Speaking book cover
For: Healthcare professionals, emerging speakers, educators

The ABC of Public Speaking

Built for people who were never trained to speak in public but suddenly have to. A practical, no-nonsense framework for clinicians, researchers, and experts who have something important to say and need to say it well.

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In Their Words

Roi doesn't just speak to a room — he changes what the room is capable of saying. Our team left with language for things we had been circling for years.

Head of People & Culture
Global Pharmaceutical Company

I have sat through hundreds of keynotes on inclusion. This was the first one that gave us a diagnostic — not a sermon. We implemented changes the following month.

Chief Diversity Officer
Healthcare System, Germany

The most intellectually honest speaker I have encountered on AI in healthcare. He understands both the clinical reality and the human cost — simultaneously.

Medical Director
University Hospital
Press & Media

Covered across Europe,
the Middle East, and the US.

The right format
for your room.

I work with healthcare organizations, corporations navigating DEI infrastructure, leadership teams, and conference audiences who are ready to stop circling and start naming. Available for single engagements and ongoing advisory relationships.

01

Keynote

45–90 minutes. Designed to shift how a room thinks, not just what it knows. Available in English, German, and Hebrew. Adaptable to your conference theme.

02

Workshop

Half-day or full-day. The Performance Tax workshop turns the keynote insight into a working diagnostic for your team. For DEI leads, HR directors, and leadership teams.

03

Advisory

Ongoing retainer for organizations that want to build what I name into how they actually work. Patient experience, AI ethics, inclusion infrastructure — long-form, relational.

04

Training

Healthcare communications and patient-centred care training for clinical teams. Built on 20 years of lived experience, 20,000 professionals trained globally.

Online Course · LinkedIn Learning

Public Speaking for Healthcare Professionals

Learn the frameworks I've used to train 20,000+ clinicians to communicate with clarity, confidence, and human presence. At your own pace.

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Curriculum · Constraint-Based Entrepreneurship

tinyMHA — Build Meaningful Work from Limitation

A 60-lesson entrepreneurship curriculum for people building something real without the resources they wish they had. Self, Systems, and Startups.

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Let's see if
we're a fit.

I don't take every booking. I take the rooms where something real can happen. Tell me about your organization and what you're trying to change — and we'll find out quickly whether I'm the right person for it.

Impressum

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Roi Shternin-Martini
1180 Wien, Österreich
roi@roishternin.com

Unternehmensgegenstand

Unternehmensberatung einschließlich der Unternehmensorganisation
(Business Consulting including Organizational Development)

Gewerbebehörde & Registrierung

Magistrat der Stadt Wien
GISA-Zahl: 38626050
Austrian Business Registration

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