HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
YOU CARRY THE
WEIGHT.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO
BE DEFINED BY IT.
Resilience, connection and post-traumatic growth for the people who spend their lives caring for others.
Brickman Allen brings a powerful message of resilience, perspective and purpose that helps healthcare teams move beyond simply surviving difficult experiences—and discover what those experiences can create in them.
Healthcare Conferences • Hospital Systems • Nursing Events • Leadership Retreats • Team Events
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE CARE
YOU SPEND YOUR LIFE TAKING CARE OF EVERYONE ELSE.
WHO TAKES CARE OF YOU?
Long shifts. Difficult outcomes. High expectations. Emotional exhaustion. Constant responsibility.
Healthcare professionals learn how to keep going because someone is always depending on them.
But resilience isn’t pretending the hard things aren’t hard. It isn’t simply pushing everything down and showing up for another shift.
Real resilience is learning how to move through adversity without allowing it to take everything else with it.
Through powerful storytelling, humor and uncommon vulnerability, Brickman helps audiences look differently at hardship, purpose, connection and the life waiting for them outside of the difficult moments.
THREE CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER
RESILIENCE
MORE THAN JUST
GETTING THROUGH IT
Survival gets you through the hard day.
Resilience asks what you will build from it.
Brickman challenges audiences to stop measuring strength by how much they can endure and start recognizing their ability to adapt, grow and move forward with greater purpose.
CONNECTION
PEOPLE NEED
PEOPLE
The strongest teams aren’t built by people pretending they never struggle.
They’re built through trust, vulnerability, empathy and the willingness to notice when someone beside them is carrying too much.
Connection doesn’t make a team weaker. It makes the weight lighter.
PURPOSE
YOUR HARDEST
EXPERIENCES CAN
STILL CREATE
SOMETHING GOOD
You don’t choose every experience that becomes part of your story.
You do get a say in what that experience creates in you.
Move from “Why did this happen?” to “What can I do with what happened?”
FEATURED HEALTHCARE KEYNOTE
LIVE OUTSIDE
YOU DON’T CHOOSE YOUR ADVERSITY—BUT YOU CAN CHOOSE WHAT IT CREATES IN YOU.
After surviving a violent home invasion that left him fighting for his life, Brickman Allen discovered that surviving trauma and actually moving forward from it are two very different things.
His message doesn’t come from a textbook. It comes from the hospital bed.
From rebuilding. From relationships. From forgiveness. From learning that difficult experiences can either become walls around our lives—or become part of something meaningful we build from them.
In Live Outside, Brickman challenges healthcare professionals to step outside the fear, exhaustion, expectations and experiences that can quietly begin defining their lives.
YOUR PEOPLE WILL WALK AWAY READY TO:
- Reframe adversity without minimizing what they’ve experienced.
- Recognize where survival mode may be affecting their work, relationships and sense of self.
- Focus their energy on the choices, relationships and purpose they can still control.
- Use difficult experiences as a source of perspective, empathy and meaningful growth.
ONE NIGHT CHANGED EVERYTHING.
A simple decision not to lock a door preceded a violent home invasion that nearly ended Brickman’s life.
He remembers the violence. He remembers believing he was going to die.
And he remembers the people who stepped into his worst night and fought to keep him alive.
Doctors. Nurses. Paramedics. First responders.
For Brickman, healthcare isn’t an abstract industry. It’s personal.
The people working inside hospitals and emergency departments didn’t simply perform their jobs.
They gave him more life.
More years with his family. More birthdays. More ordinary mornings. More opportunities to do something meaningful with the life he almost lost.
THANK YOU FOR CARRYING PEOPLE THROUGH THE DAYS THEY WILL NEVER FORGET.
THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED MAKE IT POSSIBLE
THEY DIDN’T JUST SAVE HIS LIFE.
They gave him a second chance to use it.
The doctors, nurses, therapists and caregivers who carried Brickman through the worst days of his life gave him something he can never repay: a second chance.
That second chance changed the way he sees his life. Brick has dedicated it to trying to make a difference—to use what he survived to strengthen people, protect what matters, and help others see possibility beyond their hardest moments.
For him, paying that gift forward is more than gratitude. It is an honor and a responsibility.
Serving the healthcare professionals who once served him carries a special weight. He considers it a privilege to stand in front of the people who give others more time, more hope, more ordinary mornings, and sometimes an entirely new life.
The life they helped save became the life he is determined to use well.
FOR HEALTHCARE LEADERS & ORGANIZATIONS
PROTECT THE PEOPLE WHO CARE FOR YOUR PEOPLE.
Culture isn’t created by a mission statement hanging on a hospital wall. It’s created in the small moments—when someone notices, when someone speaks up, when leaders listen, when coworkers protect one another, and when people know they matter beyond the role they fill.
Through Protect What Matters Most, Brickman challenges leaders to build cultures where people feel valued, trusted, connected and worth protecting.
PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE
Create an environment where people know they matter.
PROTECT YOUR CULTURE
Don’t allow pressure, routine or exhaustion to quietly erode what your organization values.
PROTECT YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
The people waiting at home shouldn’t receive only what’s left of you.
PROTECT YOURSELF
You can dedicate your life to helping others without completely losing yourself in the process.
THIS ISN’T ANOTHER LECTURE ABOUT BURNOUT.
Your people already know healthcare is hard. They don’t need someone standing on a stage telling them they’re stressed.
They need a reason to think differently about what they’re carrying.
A STORY THEY WON’T FORGET
VULNERABILITY THEY DON’T EXPECT
HUMOR THAT LETS THE ROOM BREATHE
PRACTICAL IDEAS THEY CAN USE
The goal isn’t simply for your audience to feel inspired for an hour.
It’s for them to leave seeing their story, their people and their purpose differently.
WHAT EVENT LEADERS SAY
“Brickman captivated our audience with a powerful and heartfelt keynote. His story of resilience and determination, forged through unimaginable challenges, taught us the importance of adaptability and seizing opportunities even in the face of adversity.”
Brett Gilliand
Co-Founder & CEO, Elite Entrepreneurs
BUILT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE HEALTHCARE POSSIBLE.
Hospital Systems
Nursing Conferences
Healthcare Leadership Events
Physician & Provider Groups
Clinical Teams
Healthcare Associations
Employee Recognition Events
Annual Meetings & Retreats
Wellness & Resilience Events
TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE
WHO TAKE CARE OF EVERYONE ELSE.
Give your people more than another presentation.
Give them a conversation about resilience, connection and purpose they will continue having long after the event is over.