2025 ACE Summit Keynotes

Strong teams are built on more than just skills—they’re built on trust, communication, and shared purpose. Today’s most effective leaders understand that investing in relationships within a team context is essential to unlocking collaboration, creativity, and performance.

In this engaging and experiential keynote, Nancy Scott guides participants through reflective and practical exercises designed to strengthen interpersonal dynamics within teams. By exploring empathy, psychological safety, and effective communication strategies, attendees will walk away better equipped to create connected, resilient teams where individuals thrive—and so does the collective.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize the impact of healthy team dynamics on performance, engagement, and workplace culture.

2. Identify key elements that foster trust, communication, and psychological safety within teams.

3. Define empathy as a leadership skill and explore how it can be leveraged to navigate diverse perspectives and strengthen collaboration.

4. Practice self-awareness and self-coaching techniques that contribute to your effectiveness as a team builder and relational leader.

Capital management projects in healthcare aren’t just high-cost—they’re high-stakes. As IDNs face growing pressure to maximize ROI, these initiatives demand more than just execution; they require strategic orchestration across key functions. In this engaging session, senior leaders from Finance, Facilities & Construction, and Supply Chain reveal how breaking down silos leads to smarter capital planning, stronger alignment, and more resilient project outcomes. Discover how these teams navigate complexity, balance competing demands, and turn capital investments into long-term operational value. Whether you're planning a new facility or modernizing existing infrastructure, this session offers actionable insights to elevate your capital strategy.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover how finance, facilities, and supply chain leaders align around capital priorities to drive enterprise-wide value.

2. Identify common collaboration barriers—and proven tactics to overcome them.

3. Learn practical strategies to improve cross-functional decision-making and accountability.

4. Hear real-world examples of how teams optimize cost, speed, and operations in large-scale capital initiatives.

Born with one leg, ESPN/ PAC 12 Commentator and Nike Athlete, Anthony Robles’ willpower, grit and dedication propelled him to become a force in college wrestling who now shares his strategy for success—a limitless belief in self with a mindset to do things other people wouldn’t have thought possible.

Motivated and charismatic, Robles credits his ability to succeed in the face of overwhelming challenges to a belief instilled in him by his mother from the time he was born—that he could do anything and could overcome any obstacle that came his way.

His is one of sports’ most inspiring stories and Anthony will share the struggles and triumphs that ultimately put him on the mat and led him to be a champion, survivor, and motivator – in wrestling and in life. He will offer practical strategies and best practices on how to increase self-motivation, build a meaningful support community and improve tenacity both within yourself and your team.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss emotional toll of having a birth defect labeled as insurmountable and the difficulties that can have on one’s life.

2. Investigate how support and community can impact one’s mental health and belief in self.

3. Outline leadership development strategies to improve your team’s tenacity to never give up on your organization’s goals and vision.

4. Identify best practices to increase self-motivation and belief.

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