Wayne Sotile, Ph.D.

Without trivializing the magnitude of what we are facing, Dr. Sotile provides a compassionate call to attend to the evidence-based factors that foster positive coping with unfolding change….for individuals, families, and teams.

In this session, Dr. Sotile discusses how each of us can help to make our workplace a positive emotional culture. Learn tactics and strategies for deepening teamwork, and how you can recognize and intervene helpfully with colleagues that are stressed.

Learn to identify and change coping habits and patterns that are holding you back from next-level wellbeing and satisfaction, at work and home.

A panel of leaders and I discuss the contemporary call to new levels of professionalism across disciplines and how to intervene when a colleague shows disruptive, disrespectful, or distressing workplace behaviors.

Local leaders and I discuss my WIRED™ framework for effective leadership and wellness: Emphasize Wellness; seek Input from those you love and lead; generously offer Recognition for what is going right; train to promote Efficacy for skills required in our new normal; and repeatedly create forums for Dialogue between all team (or family) members.

Coping strategies for sustaining personal and team resilience as we create and navigate our unfolding New Normal are discussed.

Happiness is a choice that yields big dividends – personally and professionally. This presentation combines practical advice from cutting-edge research in health psychology with common-sense lessons learned from 60,000 hours of counseling experience with 7,000 high-performing people and consultation with 400 leading corporations. (Plus, Dr. Sotile sprinkles in a good dose of Cajun humor!) The Sotiles’ model for keeping the flame alive at work and home has national television and corporate audiences throughout the country raving. Come and learn how being a hero at work and home go hand-in-hand, and find out how you how can do it!

Dr. Wayne Sotile teaches Cajun life-lessons. Learn how lagniappe (giving “a little something extra”), protecting your relationships, and paying attention to ducks, chickens, and dogs can save your life and help you to thrive! The perfect keynote for teaching serious people how to laugh at themselves and build resilience, this is a talk that will leave you smiling, thinking, and reaching out to help each other.

A vital part of any healthcare leader’s role is to bring out the best in people. Doing so requires driving accountability while helping others to get beyond psychological barriers that interfere with passionate engagement in meaningful work. Unfortunately, the more stressful the work challenges, the more likely are leaders to ignore the evidence-based fundamentals that promote and sustain high-passion individual and team engagement. 

In this session, clinical psychologist Wayne Sotile, author of Letting Go of What’s Holding You Back, teaches practical applications of the broad fields of motivational psychology, performance management, and leadership resilience. Drawing material from his 35 years of experience as a change agent in his work with individuals, families, teams, and healthcare organizations, Wayne charms and challenges audience members, and shows them how they can move beyond whatever might be holding them back from the personal ” best” – whatever that best might be. Throughout his message, Wayne weaves hilarious Cajun humor and heartwarming stories that never fail to lift the spirits and warm the hearts of his audiences. Wayne’s work in this area was described this way by one physician audience member: “Wayne Sotile could motivate a stick to change.”  Either as a keynote or extended workshop, this presentation will provide participants with a toolkit of skills for better understanding and motivating others while enjoying themselves in the process.