Roi Sternin facilitating a workshop in Vienna, Austria

I help people
feel like themselves
again.

Not by giving them tools. By seeing them fully — in rooms where that hasn't been possible before.

Who I am

A fellow human who knows what loss is and how to rebuild. Gritty, messy, but built.

I spent seven years in bed. Thirty-three doctors. A body that stopped working and a medical system that told me I was imagining it. I diagnosed myself. POTS. I rebuilt everything.

I now walk into rooms across 27 countries and see what people are carrying. What they're performing. What they've stopped believing in.

I don't see titles. I see people. I say what I see. Something shifts. That's the work.

The Work

The Room

Two days. Ten people. Vienna. No slides. No agenda that protects anyone. You leave knowing something about yourself you came in avoiding.

Apply for June 6 →

The Half-Day

Half a day. 10–12 people. For teams, organisations, and groups that need to stop performing and start existing.

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Who comes to these rooms

Leaders who have forgotten they chose this.

Clinicians who stopped feeling in order to keep going.

Patients who stopped asking to be believed.

Teams where everyone agrees and nobody means it.

Anyone who has been seen as a function for so long they've forgotten they're a person.

Recent writing

Essays, reflections, and long-form writing on illness, voice, presence, and the gap between what we feel and what we say.

All essays → rois.life

Revolution From Your Bed

Intimate conversations from the in-between. New episodes when there's something worth recording.

Listen →

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The books

Seven books.
One argument.

What patients actually experience. What the system believes they experience. And what it takes to close the gap.

All books →

The Algorithm Will See You Now

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.

What people say

I have never seen a speaker like you before.

D.H.Senior Patient Engagement Officer · Boehringer Ingelheim

My personal highlight was Roi's keynote on why chronically ill people might be our best employees.

Dr. Barbara R.Senior Partner · PwC Austria

Loved your keynote.

Isabelle E.J.Inclusion Manager · Google

If you've been carrying something
that doesn't have a name yet —
that's where this work starts.

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