Alexa is a seasoned, easygoing speaker known for activating audiences with lively experiences, mixing data with real-world stories, and bringing a new perspective to challenging topics with a loving light, humor, and inclusive discussions. Alexa has completed the National Speakers Association’s core certification, “Speaker’s Academy” (CT Chapter), and is a leading speaker/coach in Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS).
In addition to deep experience with diagnosis and health humanities, Alexa’s approach is informed by her time as an athlete, longtime study of embodiment wisdom and mindfulness, and ongoing learning in Restorative Justice, structural competency, history, and anti-racist education.
All topics listed below can be presented as talks or expanded into interactive workshops in either virtual or in-person settings — including at local art museums, galleries, or alternative arts spaces. Contact us to discuss details and to customize your experience.
Sample titles below. Please get in touch for descriptions, learning objectives, and pricing.
The Lifechanging Magic of Looking at Art:
Building Community and Cultures of Possibility in the Spaces Between People and Art
This workshop advanced our work with DEI and belonging, and got our group talking with each other in ways that changed the conversation. Riveting, humanistic, and practical all at once. Big fan of Alexa’s mind and messages — she lives the work!
–University Dean
The Gift of Uncertainty
Converting Uncertainty from Challenge to Driver of Transformation
A refreshing breather that freed my mind to think in new ways, and find both acceptance and new energy in uncertainty.
–Department head
The Life-Giving Leadership of Diagnosis:
What Medicine’s Core Art Has to do with Everything
Wonderful, inspiring exercise in understanding the challenges of seeing, at work and in life. Art is the perfect metaphor.
–Director
Holding Space for Co-Creation:
The Leadership of Psychological Safety
Our strongest critic of workshops/seminar experiences was jumping up and down from how much he loved it.
–Surgeon + Research Center Director
Art and the Radical Act of Diagnosis
I took this course to learn to be a better doctor. Unexpectedly, I learned how to have agency as a patient, and as a creative collaborator across all of my relationships.
–Physician and Designer
Wow. What an amazing morning. Thank you for drawing out our team in such a meaningful way.
–Chief of Neurosurgery
This was really practical — and a genuinely good time with art, which was new for me.
–Journalist
Most memorable for me was learning about my teammates simply by seeing the art through their eyes. I was moved by my colleagues… and nothing short of amazed as unexpected meanings came alive before my eyes, just by listening.
— CEO and Meeting Organizer
Diagnosis is the art of knowing, yasssssss. Everyone at my table just went oooooooh.
–Innovation Summit attendee
SPEAKING: HIGHLIGHTS
ARTS + IDEAS FESTIVAL, New Haven, CT. June 2022. WATCH HERE
DIPLOMA-DAY SPEECH, Health: Science, Society, and Policy Program, Brandeis University, May 19, 2019.
ENDOWED LECTURESHIPS:
- University of Hartford, Hartford, CT.
- Providence Health System, Portland, OR.
- Brown University, Providence, RI.
- Ohio Humanities Council.
GRAND ROUNDS, FACULTY TRAININGS, PRIVATE WORKSHOPS:
- Stanford University, Department of Radiology
- University of California San Francisco: Fetal Medicine Department; Department of Radiology; Pre-Term Birth Initiative.
- Maine Medical Center
- Boston Medical Center
- Brandeis-Tufts Physician EMBA Program
- Quinnipiac School of Business
- Quinnipiac Health Sciences and Interprofessional Education
DOTMD, Galway 2019, and Dublin 2021. WATCH HERE
PRE-COURSES AND CONTRACTED ENGAGEMENTS at National meetings in partnership with:
- The American College of Physicians (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery, Washington, DC)
- The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (The Nelson-Atkins Museum, St. Louis, MO).
- The Society for Radiology and Ultrasound.
MORE LISTINGS here.