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Mark has delivered keynotes and workshops across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and South America — both in person and virtually.
Where Mark Is Most Often Invited to Speak
Mark is a skilled professional speaker and is also an experienced and effective moderator of panel discussions and fireside chats on stage.
Hospital and health system events
- All-hands meetings / grand rounds
- Quarterly leadership meetings
- Executive and board retreats and planning sessions
- Patient Safety Awareness Week
- Nurses Week
- Hospital Week
Professional conferences
- Healthcare (“lean healthcare”)
- Architecture (“lean design”)
- Lean & quality conferences
- Lean IT & agile software conferences
- Industry groups and associations
Universities
- Healthcare / MHA programs (Master's of Healthcare Administration)
- Medical schools
- Business / MBA programs (Master of Business Administration)
Events hosted by consulting groups and medical device or software companies
- Sales meetings
- Customer education events
- Appearances at trade shows and conventions
Any organization interested in employee engagement, innovation, and improvement
Speaking Clients and Events Include:
Health Systems
- Legacy Health System
- NYC Health and Hospital Corporation
- Mercy Medical Center (Iowa)
- Southern Illinois Healthcare
- Mainline Health System (PA)
- Quorum Health Resources
- Fenway Health
- Holzer Health System
- Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
- Erie St. Clair LHIN
- University of Michigan Health System
- UMass Memorial Health System
- NorthBay Healthcare
- Mary Greeley Medical Center (multiple events)
- Alberta Health Services
- Franciscan Alliance
- Children's Hospital of Atlanta
- Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare
- Carolinas Health System
- Cleveland Clinic (multiple visits)
- New York Presbyterian Hospital
- NYU Langone Medical Center
- Hospital Sisters Health System
Corporate Events (Internal Functions & Customer Events)
- Triple-S Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Honda
- FormFast
- Central Logic
- Advanced ICU Care
- Kronos
- QIAGEN, Inc.
- KaiNexus User Conference
- Stanley Healthcare
- Studer Group What's Right in Healthcare Conference
- KaiNexus User Conference
- Genentech
- Medical City Plano
- Cardinal Health
- Steel Business Partners
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Corepoint Health
- City of Frisco
- Eli Lilly
Societies and Associations
- Leapfrog Group
- Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
- ASAE, The Center for Association Leadership
- ExL Pharma Summit
- ASAE, The Center for Association Leadership
- Maine Hospital Association
- Society for Cardiovascular Patient Care
- Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
- South Central Association of Blood Banks Conference
- Ontario Hospital Association
- Georgia VHA
- Michigan Lean Consortium
- IHI Open School
- West Virginia Values Collaborative
- Northeast Home Health Leadership Summit
- Bay Area Process Improvement Network
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine
- Texas Association for Healthcare Quality
- Massachusetts Lean Healthcare Practitioners Network
- ASQ Detroit Chapter
- North Texas Association for Healthcare Quality
- California Association for Healthcare Quality
- CONNSTEP
- Techsolve
- North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management
- Emerald Valley High Performance Consortium (Eugene, OR)
- ASQ Fort Worth Chapter
- Iowa Lean Consortium
- AHRMM Annual Conference
- ASHHRA Annual Conference
- American Medical Association
- Lean Practitioners Association of Saskatchewan
- ASQ Ann Arbor Chapter
Academic Settings / Classes
- MIT Lean Healthcare Academy
- UT San Antonio Health Science Center Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Course
- Utah State University / Shingo Institute
- MIT Leaders for Global Operations Program
- Saint Vincent College KCOE North American Operational Excellence Summit
- Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- University of Turabo, Puerto Rico
- The Ohio State University MBOE Program
Conferences
- XII National Conference – II Rioplatense Conference of the Collaborative Latin American Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare (Argentina)
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference
- Lab Quality Confab
- Productivity Inc. Lean Healthcare Forum
- ValuMetrix Services Executive Roundtable
- Society for Health Systems Annual Conference
- Executive War College Meeting for Laboratory and Pathology Management
- UniLabs Lean Laboratory Conference
- World Congress Leadership Summit on Process Improvement in Healthcare
- 2011 Patient Flow Summit
- Shingo Prize Annual Conference
- Lean Healthcare West
- Lean & Six Sigma Applied to Healthcare Conference
- ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference
- Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference
- Lean Healthcare PowerDay
- VHA Georgia’s 2nd Annual Lean Six Sigma Conference
- Northeast Shingo Prize Annual Conference
- Lean Construction Institute
- NorQuest College Lean Speaker Series
- Lean Healthcare Conference
- Lean Healthcare Event, Helsinki, Finland
- Lean Transformation Summit
- Shingo Institute Conference
- Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit
- Housing & Community Economic Development, Indiana Statewide Conference
- Dutch Lean Event
- Mid-Atlantic Lean Conference
- Northeast LEAN Conference
- Beyond Budgeting Conference
- Lean and Six Sigma World Conference (Keynote talk)
- International Society for Blood Transfusion
- Virtual Lean Summit 2020 (Lean Gulf Institute and Dubai Quality Group)
- AME – Association for Manufacturing Excellence – Conference 2022 Dallas
Software & Entrepreneurship Events
- Lean Software Austin
- The Lean Startup Conference / Lean Startup Week (multiple appearances)
- Lean Kanban North America
- Software Development and Evolution Conference
- Agile Day Chicago
- Endless Disruption Summit 2021
Talk With Mark About Your Event or Organization
Whether you’re planning a keynote, leadership workshop, executive retreat, or facilitated discussion, Mark Graban will work with you to clarify goals and determine the right format for your audience.
Mark works with leaders who want real improvement — not quick fixes, performative change, or compliance theater. His approach is grounded in systems thinking, leadership behavior, and practical methods that help organizations learn, improve, and perform better over time.
If that sounds like the kind of conversation you want to have, reach out to start it.