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Speaking
Myrtle Roy speaks on the operational realities of healthcare delivery — access, accountability, workforce, and what it actually takes to lead complex systems through growth and pressure.
The talk that anchors the brand
Signature talk
When the System Is the Problem: Leading Healthcare Operations Through Sustained Pressure
Healthcare organizations don’t struggle because their people aren’t good enough. They struggle because their systems aren’t built for the demands placed on them. In this talk, Myrtle Roy draws on two decades of front line and executive experience to examine how access failures, throughput breakdowns, and workforce instability compound into organizational crises — and what disciplined operational leadership can actually do about it. This is not a talk about resilience. It is a talk about accountability, structure, and the choices that determine whether a health system grows or grinds.
Health system leadership
Operational excellence forums
Urgent care & ambulatory
Urgent care & ambulatory
Available as a45-minute featured keynote, 60-minute deep dive session, or 90-minute workshop.
Five areas of deep expertise
Topic Menu
Access is a Leadership Problem — Not a Staffing One
Wait times and capacity failures are routinely blamed on staffing shortages. Myrtle challenges that framing. This talk examines the operational and governance decisions — workflow design, scheduling structures, throughput accountability — that determine patient access long before a staffing crisis arrives. Audiences leave with a sharper analysis of where their access problems actually begin.
Audience: Access & throughput · Urgent care · Ambulatory
The Governance Gap: What Operations Leaders Owe the Board
Most operational leaders are skilled at running systems — fewer are skilled at translating that work into decision-ready insight for executive and board audiences. This talk addresses the gap between operational performance and governance communication: how to present access data, workforce risk, and quality outcomes in ways that drive strategic action rather than surface-level reassurance.
Audience: Executive reporting · Governance · Board communication
Workforce Under Pressure: Leading People Through Operational Demand
Workforce instability is the defining operational challenge of this decade in healthcare. Myrtle speaks from experience leading multi-site teams through sustained high demand — examining the difference between leaders who stabilize their workforce and those who cycle through it. This talk covers performance accountability, engagement under pressure, and the organizational habits that retain people when conditions are hardest.
Audience: Workforce leadership · Retention · Performance management
Clinical Accountability in Operational Leadership
What does it mean to lead a healthcare operation with clinical integrity — not just financial performance? Myrtle brings a perspective rare among operations executives: 20+ years as a bedside nurse, including emergency, trauma, and telemetry, combined with regional leadership of multi-site care delivery. This talk examines how clinical background sharpens operational judgment, and why the healthiest organizations refuse to separate care quality from operational efficiency.
Audience: Clinical-ops integration · Quality · Standards of care
Building for Growth Without Breaking What Works
New site openings, market expansion, and system integration are growth stories on paper — and operational stress tests in practice. Drawing on direct experience with multi-site expansion across Northern Virginia, Myrtle examines the operational readiness disciplines that determine whether growth strengthens a health system or exposes its weaknesses. A candid conversation about what boards approve and what operations teams actually inherit.
Audience: Growth & expansion · Multi-site ops · Operational readiness
Available Formats
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45 Minutes
Conference Feature Keynote
or Main SessionIn-person or Virtual
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60 Minutes
Deep-dive session with Q&A
In-person or Virtual
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90 Minutes
Interactive working session for leadership teams.
In-person Only
For event programs and organizer materials
Speaker Bio
Full Bio
Myrtle Roy is a healthcare operations executive with regional leadership responsibility for multi-site urgent care and ambulatory services across Northern Virginia. With more than two decades of clinical experience spanning medical-surgical, telemetry, emergency, and trauma settings — and a career arc that moved from bedside nursing to executive operations — she brings a perspective that is both practically grounded and strategically informed.
She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Evidentia Legal Nursing Group, a specialized legal nurse consulting practice serving plaintiff and defense attorneys in medically complex litigation. Her clinical, operational, and medico-legal background positions her at an unusual intersection: she understands what healthcare systems are designed to deliver, what they frequently fail to deliver, and why the gap between those two things is a leadership problem.
Myrtle speaks to healthcare leadership teams, ambulatory and urgent care organizations, governance forums, and professional associations on operational performance, workforce accountability, clinical integrity, and the demands of leading complex systems under sustained pressure. Her sessions are known for directness, specificity, and the kind of insight that comes from having operated — not just consulted — at every level of the clinical and administrative ladder.
Short bio
Myrtle Roy, RN, BSN, MBA, PMP, is a healthcare operations executive with more than two decades of clinical and leadership experience across urgent care and ambulatory services in Northern Virginia. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Evidentia Legal Nursing Group and speaks to healthcare organizations and professional forums on operational performance, workforce accountability, and clinical leadership. Her talks are known for directness and the authority of someone who has run the systems she discusses.
RN, BSN 20+ years
clinical practice
MBA — Business &
strategic leadership
Multi-site regional operations,
Northern Virginia
CEO & Co-Founder, Evidentia
Legal Nursing Group
DC metro area ·
Available nationally
PMP — Project Management Professional
Ready to bring Myrtle to your event?
Booking
Myrtle speaks for healthcare organizations, leadership forums, ambulatory and urgent care conferences, professional associations, and board-level events. She is available for keynotes, featured sessions, panel participation, and workshop formats — in-person and virtually.
To discuss availability, topic fit, and logistics, reach out directly.