Vivek Murthy
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Vivek Murthy
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19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States
Dr. Vivek Murthy is the only person to have served two non-consecutive terms as United States Surgeon General, and one of the few voices doing this work today from inside the boardrooms, policy rooms, and venture funds shaping the AI era. He shows audiences how connection, well-being, and meaning drive the engagement, retention, and performance every business – and society – depends on.
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Dr. Vivek Murthy is the only person to have served two non-consecutive terms as United States Surgeon General, and across both terms, he reshaped how the world thinks about workplace well-being, mental and social health, and the human impact of technology. The frameworks he issued in office are now being implemented by leading companies across the Fortune 500 and by countries across four continents, and his January 2025 Parting Prescription to America laid out a roadmap for community, purpose, and renewal that organizations, communities, and policymakers are actively applying today.
What makes him uniquely effective in front of audiences across industries is his ability to take the human dimensions of work, including connection, well-being, meaning, and trust, and prove they are the operating conditions underneath every business outcome that matters. He has worked alongside the most recognized consumer brands, streaming platforms, hospitality companies, and sports and entertainment institutions in the world, and his frameworks are now embedded in how Fortune 500 companies, state governments, and nations on four continents are thinking about engagement, retention, and the future of work. The same lens also makes him a sought-after voice on the future of health and health care, the trends most worth tracking, and the opportunities and threats that businesses, investors, and professional associations should be planning around now.
Today he is bringing that same lens to the most consequential business question of the decade: what AI is doing to the people who build it, use it, and live alongside it. As a Senior Venture Partner at a leading fund investing at the intersection of technology and human well-being, and an affiliate of two of the most respected firms in venture capital, Dr. Murthy is in the rooms where the next generation of AI is being built and in the data on what it is doing to the people who use it. He also sits on the board of Common Sense Media and helped establish and advise its first-of-its-kind Youth AI Safety Institute. That work puts him directly in conversations with leading organizations, policymakers, and companies and investors thinking hardest about how AI will shape the next generation.
His new Staying Human platform, including a Substack, a podcast, and a forthcoming book, gives audiences a fresh thesis on what it takes to remain human as technology reshapes work, family, and community faster than at any other moment in modern memory.
What audiences remember most is not the credentials. It is the man. Dr. Murthy speaks with the rare combination of intellectual rigor and genuine warmth that makes a room of senior executives lean in and a room of frontline employees feel seen. They leave with the language to talk about what matters most, the frameworks to act on it, a clearer view of what to do differently the moment they walk out the door, and the rare feeling of being both more clear-eyed and more hopeful than when they arrived. For meeting planners, he is the rare booking that delivers both the message audiences need and the experience they will be quoting in their team meetings months later.
Why Audiences Will Be Better Off for Having Heard Dr. Vivek Murthy
- Audiences leave with a clear, evidence-based case for why connection, well-being, and meaning drive the engagement, retention, and performance every business depends on, along with a practical framework for building them in today’s environment.
- Groups across industries gain an unmatched view of where AI is actually heading and what serious organizations are already doing to protect their people, their customers, and their judgment.
- Attendees walk away with a sharper read on what their workforces, their customers, and their families are contending with, and the conviction that the decisions made in the next several years will define the decade ahead.
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The Connection Imperative: Building the Workforce, Customer Base, and Culture Your Future Depends On
The organizations winning the next decade are the ones that have stopped treating connection and well-being as soft issues and started treating them as strategic infrastructure. Drawing on the frameworks he issued as Surgeon General and the data behind them, Dr. Murthy shows audiences why the human dimensions of work are the operating conditions underneath every outcome that matters, from engagement and retention to innovation and growth. Audiences leave with the evidence, the language, and the conviction to lead differently the moment they walk out the door.
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Staying Human in the Age of AI
The defining question of the next decade is not how to deploy AI. It is what happens to people as AI is deployed. Drawing on his work as Surgeon General, his current investments in AI and well-being companies, and the research behind his forthcoming book, Dr. Murthy gives audiences an honest view of what AI is doing to workforces, customers, and communities, and a clear path forward for the organizations that want to lead this moment rather than be remade by it. Audiences leave with sharper instincts, a sturdier compass, and a sense of agency they did not have when they sat down.
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The Meaning Problem: Leading Through the AI Transition
The conversation about AI and jobs has been almost entirely about paychecks. The harder question, and the more consequential one, is about meaning. Work gives people identity, relationships, and a place in the world, and when AI begins to displace that, the costs show up as disengagement, declining trust, and falling performance long before they show up as unemployment. Dr. Murthy gives audiences a serious framework for understanding what workforces are losing, what they need from their leaders, and how organizations can protect the human core of work as the technology accelerates.
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Blind Spots: Why AI is a Leadership Problem, Not a Tools Problem
When teams begin to outsource judgment, communication, and decision-making to AI, the organization quietly inherits the model’s blind spots, and the cost shows up in customer trust, regulatory exposure, and the quality of the calls leaders are making before they realize it is happening. Drawing on what he is seeing inside the rooms where the next generation of AI is being built, alongside conversations with physicians, educators, and executives navigating this in real time, Dr. Murthy gives audiences a clear view of what is already changing, what is about to change, and what serious organizations are doing to maintain judgment, trust, and human capability as AI becomes the default.
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The Mental Health Imperative: A Strategic Issue Hiding in Plain Sight
Mental health is no longer only a wellness conversation. It is a business one, a school one, and a policy one. Drawing on his work as Surgeon General, where mental health became one of the most widely covered and resonant issues of his tenure, Dr. Murthy gives audiences a clear-eyed view of how mental health is driving absenteeism, diminished productivity, and turnover across workforces, and what the most serious organizations, universities, schools, and policymakers are doing about it. Audiences leave with the language to discuss mental health credibly inside their organizations, a sharper read on what their people are actually contending with, and a practical framework for acting before the costs compound.
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The Future of Health and Health Care: Trends, Opportunities, and Threats for the Decade Ahead
Few leaders have seen the full topography of the American health system the way Dr. Murthy has, from frontline clinical practice through two tenures as Surgeon General to a current vantage point at the intersection of investment, technology, and policy. He gives audiences a clear-eyed read on where health and health care are heading and on the dynamics most worth tracking, from personalization and quality to access, cost, and privacy. Audiences leave with a sturdier framework for the strategic and capital decisions ahead, and a sharper sense of where the real opportunities and threats are likely to surface.
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