Roi Shternin *
Former paramedic. Long-term patient. Live facilitator.
I hold rooms where difficult truths become speakable.
No slides. No performance. No inspiration porn.
“I was trained to act fast. Then I became the person the system could not act fast enough for.”
For nine years, I worked as a senior paramedic. I knew how to enter a room under pressure, read what mattered, and act. Then I became a long-term patient. Seven years mostly unable to work. Thirty-three doctors. No clear answer. Ten years from first symptoms to diagnosis.
That inversion is not a story I tell for sympathy. It is the basis of my work. I know what pressure does to people. I know what systems miss.
And I know what becomes possible when a room stops performing and starts telling the truth.
Keynotes
*For conferences, leadership events, healthcare, pharma, universities, and organizations that need more than another polished talk. A keynote that opens the room — without pretending the story has a clean ending.
The Room
*A half-day facilitated format for 10–12 people. No slides. No performance. No abstract empathy training. A structured live encounter where what is usually unsaid becomes usable.
Advisory
*Embedded lived-experience perspective for healthcare, pharma, research, and patient-facing strategy. Not as decoration. Not as a testimonial. As a witness that informs better decisions.
The room changes when the story is real.
Most organizations do not need more information. They need a different kind of attention. Roi's work creates the conditions for people to speak more honestly, listen more precisely, and notice what pressure usually hides.
This is not therapy. It is not a motivational performance. It is not a slide deck about empathy.
It is live facilitation grounded in lived experience, clinical pressure, and the discipline of staying present when the room becomes difficult.
About Roi
Roi Shternin is a Vienna-based keynote speaker, author, former senior paramedic, long-term patient, and live facilitator. He has worked across 27 countries, written 3 books, spoken on TEDx stages, and collaborated with organizations across healthcare, pharma, education, and innovation.
His work is built on a rare inversion: he was first trained to respond under pressure, then spent years as the person waiting for a system to respond to him.
Today, Roi works with organizations through keynotes, The Room, and advisory relationships — bringing testimony into spaces where people usually perform certainty.
Bring Roi into the room.
For keynotes, facilitated rooms, advisory work, and selected institutional collaborations.
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