The success of any healthcare organization depends on quality patient care. Yet regulations, finances, staffing and always doing “more with less” have made that much harder to achieve. While you’re not likely to see a decrease in these challenges, you can do something about the way you handle them.

Ron Culberson’s mission is to help healthcare staff and leaders achieve a new level of excellence through humor. He helps them have more FUN while preserving the integrity of the work they do and the lives they lead.

If laughter is the best medicine, Ron Culberson can humorize your organization to a new level of excellence by

…Enhancing patient care

…Lifting staff morale

…Developing effective leaders

…Improving productivity

…Making healthcare funner (so to speak)

After ten years at Hospice of Northern Virginia (now Capital Hospice) as a home care social worker, Manager of Counseling Services and Director of Quality Service, Ron is well versed in the issues facing healthcare today. Whether it’s HIPAA, staffing shortages or the challenges of reimbursement, he has an appreciation for how healthcare staff and leaders must cope with these ongoing challenges. And for what it’s worth, he has also been a hospital patient.

Ron has been studying and teaching about the benefits of humor since 1984. He shows healthcare folks how to use humor as a tool to cope with stress, manage conflict, become more creative, improve problem solving and ultimately achieve a higher level of productivity and contentment in their jobs and personal lives.

Ron is a humor columnist and author of the book Is Your Glass Laugh Full? Some Thoughts on Seeing the Humor in Life. He is also a contributing author to Humor Me and Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul II.

When asked to describe Ron, many people say, “Charming and sexy.” But most will say he’s just darn funny. Ron will make the learning process fun. His use of hilarious humor, captivating stories and his chiseled physique keep the audience entertained and engaged while he delivers valuable information.

Ron has successfully turned his social disability of talking too much into a lucrative career as a professional speaker. With over a decade of experience, he brings a potent combination of style and substance to his presentations. He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association and is among less than 7% of speakers worldwide who hold this designation. He has delivered more than 800 presentations to over 90,000 people.

He was the 2002-2003 President of the National speakers Association/Washington DC Area and in 2004 received the Chapter Member of the Year Award. Since 2005, Ron has served on the Board of Directors of the National Speakers Association in addition to chairing numerous committees and task forces.

In addition to his work, Ron commits 1/3 of his time to volunteer service. He has served the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the American Cancer Society, Rotary International, Vienna Presbyterian Church, the Art Gliner Center for Humor Studies, the Literacy Council and the Herndon Free Clinic.

In 2005 he received the Rotarian of the Year Award from the Herndon Rotary Club and the Four Avenues of Service Citation in 2007.