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The story
The bottleneck was never information. It was attention.
Paramedic → patient → 33 doctors → AI → builder.
Nine years I read other people's bodies for a living. Then it was my turn to be read. Thirty-three doctors had every piece of information they needed. None of them read me. I diagnosed myself with POTS.
Years later, an AI model reached the same diagnosis in seconds — from the same data. The information had never been missing. The bottleneck was never information. It was attention.
Then I did the same thing to myself. Once nobody else was catching it, I stopped catching it too. I optimised for output and ignored the signal, until it broke.
That third seat is the one your leaders sit in every day.
Three ways to work with me
The Machine & The Person
AI · Healthcare · Human Judgment. The flagship keynote. What your systems measure, what your people need, and what it costs when leaders miss the person.
02The Stories Running Our Lives
Leadership · Culture · Performance. Your most loyal people spend a third of their energy performing being fine. This keynote names the cost.
03The Person Behind the Diagnosis
Healthcare · Patient Experience · Clinical Communication. Where trust is lost between clinical intent and patient reality — and what teams can change.
The method
Testimony-Based Presence
When one person in a room stops performing, publicly and at real cost, the room's permission structure collapses. People say the thing they came in not planning to say.
That is the whole method, built over twenty-five years of practice and named so it can be taught. It is not facilitation, coaching or therapy. The unit of change is the room, not the person.
It is also why a talk lands as something other than content. Plenty of speakers can describe the gap. Getting a room to admit where it is standing in it is the part nobody else does. The language below is what people carry out.
What the room takes out
They leave with words, not a mood.
A feeling cannot be applied that same evening with a patient. A word can.
I name things people have already lived and have never been able to say. Once a thing has a name it gets pointed at in a meeting, written in a chart, argued for in a budget. That is why the change is same-day, and why it is still there a month later when the mood has gone.
The spoonie tax
Every action carries an invisible energy surcharge. A cancelled meeting is a budget, not an attitude.
Good days are dangerous
A good day is borrowed from tomorrow. "They seemed fine on Tuesday" is usually why Thursday is gone.
Just get up.
What a clinician says when the framework runs out. It sounds like encouragement. It lands as blame.
Nothing is wrong with you
What thirty-three doctors said while my heart rate doubled every time I stood up. Patients learn to describe what will be accepted, not what is happening.
What people did after
Most speaker feedback is about how a room felt. The feedback worth quoting is about what people did next.
Changed behavior
I could immediately put the spirit into practice — the same evening with a patient.
Healthcare credibility
This is the most important lesson I have had in medical school. Every future doctor should listen to Roi.
Distinctiveness
I have never seen a speaker like you before.
Leadership impact
My personal highlight was Roi Shternin and his keynote on 'Why Disabled and Chronically Ill People Might Be Our Best Employees'.
Personal transformation
I am a changed man after this talk. I can't go back to unmindful living.
The body of work
Eight books.
One argument.
The evidence of thinking behind every keynote — not a separate career. Patient experience, AI, communication, and what healthcare systems miss.
All books →Dismissed
2026
What AI can do in healthcare. What it cannot see. And the patients it will abandon if we don't ask harder questions.
Revolution From My Bed
2024
Ten years. 3,650 days. What patients actually do when medicine doesn't have an answer yet.
Booking questions, answered
What does Roi Shternin speak about?
The gap between what a system can measure and what a person actually needs, and what it costs when leaders miss it. The flagship keynote, The Machine & The Person, tells it from three seats. The paramedic who read other people's bodies for a living. The patient thirty-three doctors missed. The AI that saw it in seconds. Also available: The Stories Running Our Lives (leadership and culture) and The Person Behind the Diagnosis (patient experience).
Does Roi Shternin speak about AI in healthcare?
Yes, as one more measuring system. Years after Roi diagnosed himself, an AI model confirmed the same diagnosis in seconds. The information had never been missing. The keynote is about what no dataset holds: whether anyone is paying attention to the person in front of them.
Which languages does Roi Shternin present in?
English, German and Hebrew. All three at keynote level, with no interpreter required.
Where is Roi Shternin based, and does he travel?
Vienna, Austria. He travels internationally and has spoken in 27 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States.
What audiences is he booked for?
Health systems and hospital leadership. Pharma and MedTech companies. Medical faculties and clinical education. Digital health conferences. Corporate leadership, HR and DEI events.
What formats are available?
Keynote (45–60 minutes), half-day workshop (10–40 participants), fireside conversation (30–45 minutes), and multi-session advisory engagements.
How do I book Roi Shternin?
Send the event date, location, audience and desired outcome through the booking form at roishternin.com/booking. Every enquiry is answered personally, ${FACTS.replyTime}. Bureau bookings are handled through A-Speakers.
Your room already knows what it needs to say.
The question is whether someone will say it.
If you want an inspiring story, there are plenty of speakers. If you want to know what your own systems are missing right now, let's talk. I reply to every enquiry personally, within 3 business days.