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Find what the system made unsayable. Say it.

I was a paramedic for nine years. Then I spent seven in bed while 33 doctors looked for a different answer. I found it myself. Now I walk into rooms — and people leave feeling like themselves again.

Roi Shternin — author, keynote speaker, organizational consultant
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The Room

An Afternoon with Roi.

"I think everyone needs an afternoon with Roi now and then."
— Riccarda P., Krems, April 2026

The topic is always the door. Patient communication, burnout, leadership, invisible illness — we choose together. What happens inside is the work underneath: you remember who you are.

You arrive performing your role. The clinician role. The leader role. The caregiver role. The strong one. You leave being the person underneath — able to say what you couldn't say before, to see what you'd stopped seeing, or to feel something you'd been managing away.

This happens because most professional spaces actively prevent honesty. They reward compliance over truth. They ask you to perform, not to be. This room reverses that.

It takes an afternoon. People remember it for years. Stefan from Krems applied it to a patient that same evening. David said: "I am a changed man. I can't go back to unminded living."

"I am a changed man after this talk. I can't go back to unminded living."

— David P., Belgrade University

"The magic begins as soon as you appear. You're a master in creating emotional atmospheres."

— Stefan, Krems

"I have never seen a speaker like you before."

— Dorthe H., Boehringer Ingelheim
The format
People 10–12 maximum
Duration Half-day · 3–4 hours
Setting Sofas preferred. A room that feels like a room.
Topic Chosen by the host. The topic is always the door.
Fee From €2,000 · or €150/person (min. 8)

No intake form. No discovery call unless you want one. Just an email saying you're interested and who the room is for.

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Roi reads every message personally.

"I left with the feeling that I had grown on a human level."

Alexandra A. — Krems

"This is the most important lesson I have had in medical school."

Sarah H. — Tel Aviv University

"I could immediately put the spirit into practice — the same evening."

Stefan — Krems (about a patient, that night)
Who I Am
Roi Shternin — author, speaker, organizational consultant
Roi Shternin
Based Vienna, Austria
Countries Spoken in 27
Taught 20,000+ organizational leaders
Books 7 published
Expertise Organizational Leadership
Languages English · Hebrew · German

I don't know what to call myself.

Author. Speaker. Facilitator. Patient. Paramedic. Founder. None of them are wrong. None of them are the whole thing.

Here's what I know I do.

I walk into a room — ten, twelve people, sofas if possible — and something happens. People arrive performing their role. They leave being themselves. I've watched it happen in hospitals, pharma companies, universities, and living rooms across 27 countries.

The topic changes. The room is always the same.

I know this works because I lost myself completely once. Seven years in bed. Thirty-three doctors who were wrong. A body that became the only honest thing in my life. I found my way back — not through inspiration, but through language. Through finding the words for what was happening when no one else had them.

That's what I do for other people now.

I call it The Room. Half a day. The topic is whatever brought you there — patient communication, burnout, leadership, invisible illness, being heard. What actually happens underneath is: you remember who you are.

If you're a healthcare organisation, a pharma company, or a team that has forgotten why it started — I work with you directly.

If you're a person who is stuck, unseen, or about to emerge — you're exactly who this is for.

I help people feel like themselves again.

That's the whole thing.

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What Rooms Say
I am a changed man after this talk. I can't go back to unminded living.
David P. — Belgrade University
I think everyone needs an afternoon with Roi now and then.
Riccarda P. — Krems, April 2026
The magic begins as soon as you appear. You're a master in creating emotional atmospheres.
Stefan — Krems
This is the most important lesson I have had in medical school.
Sarah H. — Tel Aviv University
Speaking

When I have
something real to say.

Every talk is the same talk wearing a different door. The topic is chosen by the host. The work underneath is always mine: making the invisible visible. I only speak when the talk feels true and the room feels right.

The Invisible Patient
What happens when a patient walks into a room and the first thing they have to do is prove they're real. How healthcare systems make their patients invisible — and what it costs, in both directions. For clinical teams, pharma, and anyone whose work depends on a patient who can say what's actually happening.
Signature Keynote 45–60 min Healthcare / Pharma
The Narrative Body
Your body has been telling the truth longer than anyone else has. What happens when you stop treating it as the enemy and start hearing it as the narrator. For patients, clinicians, and anyone living or working inside a diagnosis that doesn't have clean edges.
Keynote 45–60 min Medical / Patient
Voice Recovery
How to find your voice again after a system has spent years not believing it. For patients who've been gaslit. For clinicians who've stopped feeling. For anyone performing a version of themselves so long they've forgotten who's underneath.
Keynote / Workshop 45–90 min Any audience
Can AI restore humanity in healthcare?
For medical and technology audiences. How AI in healthcare has drifted from mandated outcomes — and what it actually takes to bring it back to the human in front of you.
Keynote 45–60 min Medical / Tech
Spoken in 27 countries across industry, tech, healthcare, education & nonprofit
Past clients Google · IBM · Boehringer Ingelheim · Takeda · Novartis · United Nations
Format Keynote · Workshop · Panel · Medical Grand Rounds
Languages English · Hebrew
Research Fellow Ludwig Boltzmann Institute · Organizational Studies
The Books

Seven books.
One unflinching voice.

On organizational leadership, constraint-based thinking, healthcare transformation, communication, and the hidden power of what doesn't get said. An eighth is in progress.

Watch

TEDx Talks

What Patients Want
TEDxShanghai · Patient Innovation & Healthcare Systems
Can AI restore humanity in healthcare?
TEDxMedUniGraz · AI & Healthcare Systems
Chronically
Writing without
performing it.

Essays about illness, voice, body narrative, and the gap between what we feel and what we can say. No content calendar. No algorithm. Just honest writing when there's something honest to say.

Read Chronically →
He said what I have been living but could never articulate.
Reader — Chronically
Get in Touch
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Roi Shternin
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