Neha Sangwan, M.D.

Physician, CEO Coach, Communication & Burnout Expert, Author

Neha Sangwan, M.D.

Physician, CEO Coach, Communication & Burnout Expert, Author

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Biography

With the practicality of an engineer and the heart and soul of a doctor, Neha Sangwan, M.D. has been changing lives with her powerful, interactive keynotes for two decades. As an internal medicine physician, she has discovered the prescription for inspiring personal and cultural transformation and healing burnout across industries, from tech to finance to healthcare. With simple yet profound tools, she connects the dots between health and leadership performance and inspires personal accountability, mutual trust and clear communication across teams —catalyzing an organization’s ability to adapt to change, innovate and excel under pressure.

Dr. Sangwan works with innovative organizations, such as American Express, Google, and Apple, and also partners with forward-thinking healthcare institutions and universities, such as Kaiser Permanente, Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Stanford University and the University of Michigan. Dr. Sangwan has pioneered programs that measurably improve metrics related to culture transformation, employee engagement and productivity, customer satisfaction, provider-patient communication and client satisfaction. She is the author of Talk Rx: Five Steps to Honest Conversations That Create Connection and Health and Happiness (Hay House, 2015) and has had the honor of sharing her wisdom on multiple TEDx stages. Dr. Sangwan’s common sense, yet profound approach has won praise from best-selling thought leaders, ranging from Dr. Wayne Dyer to Mark Hyman, M.D., and has positively influenced and inspired the lives of audiences around the globe.

Dr. Sangwan is the CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence, a leadership and culture transformation consulting firm. By combining the science of medicine with the art of communication, she improves productivity and outcomes. Her innovative program, the i-Five Experience™, uses scientifically proven techniques to reduce stress, heal burnout, build resilience and foster individual and team accountability.

Neha began her teaching career as a faculty member for Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Physician Education and Development Team. There, she designed and delivered innovative workshops that transformed toxic medical cultures into healing organizations. For example, under her guidance, an operating room team with a 20-year cultural history of bullying, union conflict and destructive social dynamics embraced a new culture of collaborative team engagement and increased productivity through mutual trust, respect and authentic communication. Dr. Sangwan has also translated this program to corporate settings, where she works with clients in consulting, technology, higher education and finance.

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TEDx: The Communication Cure

TEDx: Changing and Letting Your Heart Speak

TEDx: The Community Cure

Speech Topics

Elevating Your Team: Healing Burnout & Stress to Reinspire & Re-Engage

As the barriers between work and home have crumbled, it’s no secret that the past few years have been challenging. Rates of burnout and stress are skyrocketing.

During these times of great change, how can you proactively prevent your staff from going down the slippery slope of burnout and instead, help them excel under pressure?

How you show up now is a reflection of your leadership. In order to meet this epic pace of external change, it’s critical to upgrade their human software—by building their resilience, expanding their perspectives and elevating their capacity for self-care, team engagement and innovation.

Dr. Neha Sangwan, an internal medicine physician, corporate communication expert and CEO and physician coach, has created a powerful and highly effective way to simplify this complex condition: approaching burnout as a net drain of energy on one or more of the following levels—physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual. Her approach utilizes a customized formula to both identify and heal burnout individually while synergistically supporting optimal wellness and performance for your teams and your organization.

As a speaker and teacher, Neha’s interactive style is accessible, transformative and refreshing. Grounded in science, her philosophy is that learning should be inspirational, practical and fun. She provides powerful frameworks that awaken you and your teams to natural work styles and inspire a new level of productivity, collaboration and leadership.

From Surviving to Thriving: Identifying & Healing Burnout

World events over the past few years have catalyzed change at unprecedented levels. Every year, we are asked to do more with less. To excel under pressure, each of us must expand our capacity and become more resourceful.

Are you ready to upgrade your human software to version 3.0 to meet this new pace and scope of change? In addition, how do you focus on your health and well-being while also being grounded in your passion and purpose?

Join Neha Sangwan, M.D., an internal medicine physician, corporate communication expert and CEO and physician coach, for an interactive experience with practical tools that will help you identify where you are on the spectrum of burnout and how to heal—at home and at work.

As a medical doctor, Neha embodies an experiential style that is grounded in science and sprinkled with humor to motivate and transform you.

A Nation Divided: How to Address Authentic Conversations at Work & at Home

As the institutions, norms and rules that once held the fabric of our society together dissolve, the relationships and companies that will thrive are the ones that adjust most quickly to our new reality. One of the biggest predictors of success will be the quality of our conversations, both at work and at home.

Whether it’s a:

managerial exchange to inspire a team member
customer service interaction with an unhappy customer
political conversation with a family member with whom you disagree or
healthcare provider’s challenging conversation with a patient.

No matter the setting, favorable outcomes depend on the quality of our interpersonal exchanges.

Drawing upon her book, Talk Rx, which Dr. Wayne Dyer called “priceless information from a medical doctor who is the real deal,” Neha Sangwan, M.D., an internal medicine physician, corporate communication expert and CEO and physician coach, reveals practical, yet profound communication tools that will answer the current dilemmas you’re facing around having honest conversations. Neha provides practical tools to help you and your audience better navigate this challenging and complex time in our world.

How to Use the Disruptive Energy of a Pandemic to Make Your Business Thrive

Our world has changed. Over the past few years, we’ve had to reexamine nearly every aspect of our lives. So how do companies adjust to this new, continually evolving reality? As the institutions, norms and rules that once held the fabric of our society together have dissolved, the businesses that will thrive are the ones that adjust most quickly to our new reality.

One of the biggest predictors of success will be the quality of leadership in your organization and the level of self-awareness and collaboration on your teams.

Have you invested in building mutual trust and respect within and across your teams?
How comfortable are you and your teams at navigating strong emotions—within yourselves and in relationship to others?
How adaptable are your teams to change?

Neha Sangwan, M.D., an internal medicine physician, corporate communication expert and CEO and physician coach, will empower you and your teams with practical tools that expand your capacity for both individual and team performance. By understanding how to identify your body’s earliest signals, then how to decipher them and know how to express them clearly and directly to one another, you will be able to navigate conflict with trust, respect and strengthen your relationships. You’ll learn how to upgrade you and your team’s human software to not only meet the challenges of our complex world but to also excel under pressure!

Talk Rx: Five Steps to Honest Conversations That Create Connection, Health & Happiness

Whether it’s a managerial exchange with a team member, a conversation with a client or a healthcare provider navigating a challenging conversation with a patient, favorable outcomes depend on the quality of our interpersonal exchanges. Drawing upon her book, Talk Rx, which Dr. Wayne Dyer called “priceless information from a medical doctor who is the real deal,” Neha Sangwan, M.D., reveals practical, yet profound communication tools that will strengthen personal and professional relationships, elevate performance, reduce stress levels and save you time!

Self-Care in Healthcare: Burnout Solutions to Protect Our Healers

Have you ever noticed that when communication breaks down, your heart rate speeds up? If conflict goes on long enough—at home or at work—you’ll find yourself stressed out and up at night with increasing anxiety, digestive discomfort or headaches.

As healers, we’ve been taught to identify and alleviate physical symptoms, but we often don’t have the time or the training to identify the root causes of mental, emotional and social stresses that sometimes cause these physical symptoms. As a profession, this is evidenced by more than 50% of us reporting signs of burnout—undermining our own wellbeing as we attempt to serve and heal others.

Neha Sangwan, M.D., has a different kind of prescription. By illuminating the ways that physical ailments can connect to our mental, emotional, social and spiritual health, she provides insights and practical tools that empower healthy communication, stronger relationships, more collaborative workplaces, higher productivity and greater effectiveness.

Empowering Women: Ushering in A New Type of Leadership

When women are provided with the freedom to express their unique capabilities and perspectives, we elevate us all. That’s why women often make great leaders. We have unique societal and workplace expectations. Feminine characteristics of leadership are those that build strong cultures based on shared purpose and create the trust and collaboration that sparks innovation. They also create cultures of caring, connection and balance that are geared toward purposeful action in society—exactly what the next generation seeks.

In this experiential talk, Dr. Neha Sangwan, an internal medicine physician, corporate communication expert and CEO and physician coach, shares the importance of elevating women leaders and provides the tools for them to be their best, including self-care, overcoming self-doubt and developing self-trust in order to elevate performance and realize their full potential.

Digital Doctor

In a world where change is the constant, we must elevate our ability to adapt and do more with less each year. For many of us, the interpersonal exchanges with our patients were sacred and energy-giving. In recent years, the introduction of electronic health records and pervasiveness of telemedicine have transformed our patient interactions.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed trying to integrate the science of medicine with the art of telecommunication—you’re in the right place. It’s time to equip yourself with the powerful tools that will allow you to connect deeply and effectively manage your time.

Neha Sangwan, M.D., an internal medicine physician, corporate communication expert and CEO and physician coach, empowers healthcare leaders and their teams to master effective communication in our digital, socially distanced and in-person masked world. Under high pressure, these practical tools will reduce stress, resolve conflict and build rapport with ease—not just with patients and their families but also with each other.

Testimonials

“The answer to the common complaint ‘My doctor never has time to talk to me.’ I loved reading these down-to-earth conversations with a brilliant medical doctor who has taken the time to give straightforward answers to so many common communication and health-related concerns. Priceless information from a medical doctor who is the real deal.”

- NYT’s Best-Selling Author, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“Doctor Neha shows us how physical intelligence can lead to transformative conversations that can impact the trajectory of our lives. She teaches us how to make every interaction count to enhance our effectiveness as leaders and, perhaps more importantly, our relationship with family and friends. Best of all, we can improve both our emotional and our physical health.”

- President, American Express Global Corporate Payments

“Working not only with physical health, but also with the ways in which emotions and relationships impact stress, wellness and performance, Doctor Neha combines the compassionate wisdom of a physician with the skills of a masterful communicator. In this way, she commands the secrets of verbal aikido: knowing how to craft conversations that are purpose-driven. I’ve watched her teach people—from individuals to large teams—how good communication directly ties in to health. Those of us who have had the chance to learn from her consider ourselves very, very lucky.”

- NYT’s Best Selling Author, David Eagleman PhDNeuroscientist

“Dr. Neha Sangwan’s work linking communication and health is at the forefront of an emerging area of care. Her ideas break through the clutter and difficulties of human communication like a breath of fresh air. Using simple, practical tools, she teaches you how to open dialogue, develop understanding and authentically connect with others. Whether you are an individual or organization, working with Doctor Neha will empower you to function better in all areas of your life.”

- NYT’s Best Selling Author Mark Hyman MD

“Dr. Sangwan’s coaching has given me an enormous advantage as a leader. As CEO of an early stage tech company, my natural environment is one of stress, punishing schedules and lots of fast-paced communication with my team and cross functional partners. I can now better navigate challenging situations in a way that reduces my stress, provides clarity of thought and promotes trusting, transparent collaboration with others.”

- CEO Aviary, Tobias Peggs PHD

“Doctor Neha is as gifted a communicator, as she is a clinician. She has done exemplary groundbreaking work in helping doctors, nurses and hospital staff around the world to open their hearts and minds to one another. She empowers them in their own self-care, using mind-body medicine techniques and practical communication tools.”

- Center for Mind Body Medicine, James Gordon MD

“Working with Doctor Neha over the past 4-5 years has changed my experience in the world—I feel an awakening that I did not previously have. Doctor Neha offers solid tools and information on how to communicate in a more effective way, both professionally and personally. I now have more love, gratitude, empathy and overall self-awareness. Thank you, Doctor Neha!”

- Nursing Leadership, Joanne Harwood RN

“Doctor Neha has helped me work more effectively with others, especially in situations where there are strong differing opinions. Her experiential approach to communication has markedly reduced my stress levels. This is a profound and visionary approach to health and wellness.”

- Medical Group Administrator, Linsey Dicks PT MBA

“Doctor Neha has been an inspiration and advisor to our business. At a personal level, she helped my husband recognize the physiological and psychological signs of stress, enabling him to reduce his symptoms. Doctor Neha is a new breed of doctors, one who focuses on the alignment and healing of the body, mind and heart.”

- Entrepreneur, Nona Lim

“For the majority of my medical career, the proverbial stethoscope was always turned toward the patient. Rarely, as health care providers, do we turn our attention to our own well-being. Putting Doctor Neha’s communication principles to practice has allowed me to create healthier relationships both at work and at home.”

- Physician-in-Charge Obstetric Anesthesia, Michael Orosco MD

“Doctor Neha’s potent, yet subtle, ingredient that makes her special blend of care unique is her deep understanding of the human condition—both its simplicity and complexity. Her ability to sublimate the complicated and unearth the gems of our psyche transcends “modern medicine” and reinvents the very definition of what health is and our relationship with ourselves. If you listen carefully, you will hear yourself. Ask Doctor Neha.”

- Entrepreneur, Jordan Shlain MD

“I have had the privilege to have known Doctor Neha for over a decade. I have seen her evolve from an esteemed colleague to an amazing coach. I have had the opportunity to interact with her both in professional team building settings as well as one on one. The tools she provides to help deal with life issues are invaluable and unforgettable. Thanks Neha!”

- Internal Medicine, Kamaljit Sran MD

“After participating in Dr. Sangwan’s workshop, I connect better with people around me, whether friends and family or colleagues at my workplace. Overall, I’ve become more accountable for my choices, and that translates to being a better communicator, more emotionally intelligent and, ultimately, a stronger leader.”

- Medical Group Administrator, Alan Chan Pharm D