Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks is the Founder and CEO of KeepWOL, an AI-powered team effectiveness platform. An aerospace engineer by training, she is the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Department and the first Black woman to win the AIAA International Aircraft Design Competition. KeepWOL has expanded into healthcare, partnering with health systems to improve team dynamics, psychological safety, and belonging.
Dr. Nathan Delafield, MD, FACP, is a Consultant in Community Internal Medicine and Associate Chair of Belonging at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
The opportunity ahead is to treat physician well-being as a core strategic priority, measured with the same rigor and acted upon with the same urgency as any other critical performance domain.