Born with a disability and later diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, Chris uses his story of hiding his physical disability and autoimmune disease for almost 20 years to help organizations in the medical and pharmaceutical industry embrace better I.D.E.A.S.– Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Solidarity. This interactive keynote gives a mind-altering & effective view of diversity and inclusion through the lens of a patient and provider with visible and invisible illness. His linguistic models for change alone will provide your team with tangible takeaways that can instantly improve team collaboration and out-of-the-box problem-solving. Your team will learn exactly how to recognize and implement I.D.E.A.S so that different minds foster innovation, inclusion, and forward-thinking for better employee and organizational productivity. You’ll learn how to use I.D.E.A.S to cultivate powerful contributors and collaborators on teams. Your audience will have an improved cultural lens that inspires creativity and problem-solving while uniting visible and invisible differences to optimize forward thinking. Through Chris’ lifelong relationship with his disability & disease, his expertise in leveraging differences to make a significant impact will leave the audience with a transformative experience, a renewed sense of community, and strategies to bridge the gap between differences and an innovative culture of connection.