Bryan Sexton
- Chief Wellness Officer
- Director, Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science
- Duke Health Integrated Practice
Travels From
North Carolina
Bryan Sexton Speaker Biography
Dr. Bryan Sexton is the Chief Wellness Officer of Duke Health Integrated Practice and Director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science. After 30 years as a psychologist, psychometrician and investigator, he now works with leaders to assess and improve culture and work-force well-being. Bryan has conducted and published large studies and randomized controlled trials showing how to cause enduring improvements in the well-being of our workforce. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, and his research instruments and well-being interventions have been translated and used in over 30 countries.
A perpetually recovering father of four, he enjoys running, using hand tools on wood, pickleball with friends, and hearing particularly good explanations of extremely complicated topics.
Prevalence & Severity of Burnout: Workforce Resilience as Care Quality
Burnout is increasingly common, compromises clinical and operational outcomes, and is treatable. In this session we will demonstrate what happens in our heads when we get burned out.
Measuring and Understanding Health Care Worker Resilience, Work Life Integration, and Burnout
The absence of something bad (burnout) is not the same as the presence of something good (resilience). Here we will demonstrate the links between well-being metrics and show how they vary at the individual and the work setting level. Your burnout may have more to do with your colleagues than you thought…
Enhancing Resilience: Three Good Things
The most popular of our resilience tools is back this month. This simple, enjoyable and remarkably effective tool can be used for 10-15 days, with measurable improvements across a variety of resilience metrics that endure for over a year.
Science of Wow: Cultivating Awe and Wonder as a Resilience Strategy
A feast for the eyes, this highly visual and image-driven webinar summarizes and demonstrates the benefits of the emotion of awe, including increased life satisfaction, greater sense of meaning, and a desire to connect with others.
Positive WalkRounds: Leader Rounding to Identify What is Going Well – Links to Quality, Culture and Workforce Resilience
Here we discuss an institutional intervention to enhance workforce resilience. We will demonstrate traditional WalkRounds to identify deficits, vs positive WalkRounds to identify bright spots, and how each contribute uniquely to quality and safety – but also to workforce resilience.
If Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch, Burnout Eats Culture for Breakfast: New Evidence About the Contagion Effect of Burnout and Impact on Safety Culture
Safety Culture is the context of care delivery in every work setting, and is linked to a wide array of clinical and operational outcomes. In today’s healthcare environment however, burnout does a significantly better job of predicting those same (and more) outcomes. Moreover, burnout varies significantly at the group level – a contagion effect that we will demonstrate during this session.
November 11, 2025
Exceptional speaker -- fits for all audiences with lots of immediate, practical tips and practices
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