I have POTS. I spent seven years in bed while doctors looked for a different answer. I found it myself. Now I write, speak, and build things — mostly for people the system still can't see.
"I think everyone needs an afternoon with Roi now and then."
— Riccarda P., Krems, April 2026
The topic is always the door. Patient communication, resilience, leadership, invisible weight — we choose together. What actually happens inside is the work underneath: people come back to themselves.
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 IngelheimNo 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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"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)
I was sick for ten years. Seven of them 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.
I became obsessed with that. Not bitterly — curiously. Why do people with something real to say go unheard? What actually happens in the gap between what someone feels and what they can say out loud in a room that has power over them?
I've spent fifteen years inside that question. Training 20,000 healthcare professionals. Teaching 15,000 people — most of them sick, exhausted, dismissed — how to speak when everything is working against them. Advising pharma companies. Speaking in 27 countries. Writing seven books. Being the first patient ever placed inside a medical research institute not as a subject but as a voice.
I still have ME/CFS. I still have POTS. I still know what it is to perform wellness you don't feel, in rooms that need you to be fine.
I work with spoonies who need to advocate for themselves. Carers who've become invisible in the room. Healthcare professionals who went into medicine to connect and ended up somewhere else.
The work is always the same: find what the system made unsayable. Say it.
I run intensives in Vienna. I write at Chronically when I have something real to say. I teach when people are ready to learn.
Learn to speak when your body won't cooperate. For people with chronic illness, healthcare professionals, patient advocates, or anyone speaking from a place of vulnerability.
I only speak when the talk feels true and the room feels right. If you're looking for a speaker who will tell your audience what they want to hear, I'm the wrong person.
Spanning chronic illness, patient rights, healthcare AI, and the body's hidden architecture. An eighth is in progress.
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 →No contact form. No discovery call booking system. No automated response. If something on this page felt true — about the room, about a keynote, about any of it — write to me directly. I read everything.