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Let Sweet Spot Leader match a keynote speaker for your next workshop or retreat. 

Our speakers come with a range of expertise in managing difficult conversations, defining your leadership voice, creating mission-driven teams, using lifestyle behaviors to survive high-stress environments, unlocking potential, dealing with workplace violence, understanding burnout, communicating effectively, career transitioning, and more.

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Elizabeth Carr, RDH, DHA, MAADH

Elizabeth Carr, RDH, DHA, MAADH

Professor & Chair, Department of Dental Hygiene
Director, Population Oral Health Collaborative
University of Mississippi Medical Center – School of Dentistry

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Dr. Elizabeth Carr is a nationally and internationally recognized educator, healthcare leader, and speaker with more than two decades of experience advancing dental hygiene education, population oral health, and leadership development. She currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Dental Hygiene and Director of the Population Oral Health Collaborative at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), where she leads statewide initiatives focused on access to care, workforce development, telehealth innovation, and community partnerships.

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Courage: Why, When, and How

In healthcare, courage is not optional; it is essential. This presentation explores the role courage plays in leadership, decision-making, communication, and professional growth. Drawing on research, real-world examples, and personal experience, Dr. Carr helps participants understand how courageous choices shape careers, teams, and patient outcomes. Attendees leave with practical tools to act with clarity and confidence, even in high-stakes or uncomfortable situations.

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Honorarium: Up to 2 hours: $2,500 | 2–4 hours: $3,500 | 4–6 hours: $5,500 | (plus travel and lodging)
Suken Jain, MBA

Suken Jain, MBA

Founder, Synergy Sync
Founder, The Sync Leadership Lab Podcast

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Suken Jain is a leadership and performance coach who has taken 20 years of corporate experience and a lifetime of learning to enable people and organizations to unleash their potential and reach their highest ambitions.

In his most recent leadership role at Nobel Biocare, Suken was responsible for many of the company’s largest initiatives, including creating a centralized global marketing team. His experience also includes leading strategy, program management, and marketing to drive a successful collaboration with a 250-person sales team. 

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Leading with Values and Purpose

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding how people naturally lead and how it is different when people lead from within.
  • Discover your own values and purpose to understand what fulfills you.
  • How to apply these learnings to be a better self and team leader.
  • What actions to take to start leading a more meaningful life and career.
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Honorarium: Up to 2 hours: $2,500 | 2–4 hours: $3,500 | 4–6 hours: $5,500 | (plus travel and lodging)
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Dr. Elizabeth Carr is a nationally and internationally recognized educator, healthcare leader, and speaker with more than two decades of experience advancing dental hygiene education, population oral health, and leadership development. In her role as Professor and Chair of the Department of Dental Hygiene and Director of the Population Oral Health Collaborative, she leads statewide initiatives focused on access to care, workforce development, telehealth innovation, and community partnerships.

Dr. Carr earned her Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene and Doctorate of Health Administration from UMMC and a Master of Dental Hygiene from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. In 2025, she completed an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, further strengthening her expertise at the intersection of healthcare, leadership, and
systems thinking.

A prolific scholar and educator, Dr. Carr has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks on leadership, courage, teaching methodology, dental public health, and team dynamics. She serves nationally as a Commission on Dental Accreditation site visitor and is an honorary fellow of the American College of Dentists, a fellow of the College of General Dentistry, and has held leadership roles with the Mississippi Dental Hygienists’ Association. Elizabeth is also a long time member of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association, American Dental Education Association, and American Academy of Dental Hygiene.

Dr. Carr is a credentialed Crucial Conversations and EPIC Wisdom trainer and is widely sought after for her ability to translate complex leadership concepts into practical, human-centered strategies. As a global speaker, she has delivered over 50 presentations across the United States and internationally, engaging audiences ranging from clinicians and faculty to executive leaders and professional organizations.

Her work is grounded in the belief that courageous leadership, effective communication, and strong teams are essential to improving patient care, workplace culture, and population health outcomes.

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Courage: Why, When, and How
In healthcare, courage is not optional; it is essential. This presentation explores the role courage plays in leadership, decision-making, communication, and professional growth. Drawing on research, real-world examples, and personal experience, Dr. Carr helps participants understand how courageous choices shape careers, teams, and patient outcomes. Attendees leave with practical tools to act with clarity and confidence, even in high-stakes or uncomfortable situations.

Learning Objectives:
  • Define courage in the context of healthcare leadership and professional practice.
  • Identify barriers that prevent courageous decision-making.
  • Apply strategies to make courageous choices during conflict, uncertainty, or change.
  • Recognize how courage contributes to trust, credibility, and long-term success.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Managing Difficult Conversations
Difficult conversations are unavoidable in healthcare—whether with patients, colleagues, or team members. This highly practical session equips participants with proven communication tools to address conflict, give feedback, and navigate emotionally charged discussions without damaging relationships. Grounded in scientifically backed communication principles, this presentation emphasizes psychological safety, respect, and accountability.

Learning Objectives:
  • Identify common mistakes that derail difficult conversations.
  • Apply communication strategies that promote safety and mutual respect.
  • Distinguish between productive dialogue and unhelpful confrontation.
  • Practice techniques for addressing conflict while preserving relationships.
From Grumbles to Growth: Mastering Feedback in the Dental Office
Feedback can either fracture teams or fuel growth. This engaging presentation reframes feedback as a leadership skill that builds trust, accountability, and high performance. Participants learn how to give and receive feedback in ways that reduce defensiveness, strengthen relationships, and support a culture of continuous improvement within dental and healthcare teams.

Learning Objectives:
  • Explain why feedback often fails and how to reframe it for success.
  • Identify effective feedback strategies that promote growth rather than resistance.
  • Practice giving feedback that is clear, compassionate, and actionable.
  • Foster a team culture where feedback is expected, valued, and productive.

Biosketch

Suken Jain is a leadership and performance coach who has taken 20 years of corporate experience and a lifetime of learning to enable people and organizations to unleash their potential and reach their highest ambitions.

In his most recent leadership role at Nobel Biocare, Suken was responsible for many of the company’s largest initiatives, including creating a centralized global marketing team. His experience also includes leading strategy, program management, and marketing to drive a successful collaboration with a 250-person sales team. He successfully led multiple change management efforts including game-changing product launches using a robust Launch Excellence process for cross-functional collaboration that resulted in the biggest year-one innovation revenue achievement in company history. His success includes the combination of people- and data- focused problem solving.

Suken took his experiences leading and partnering with people to launch Synergy Sync to drive professional growth for self and team leadership including the Sync Leadership Development Program.

Suken obtained his MBA from Georgetown University in 2010, PMP Certification in 2013, and completed over 100 hours of training with the Co-Active Training Institute in 2024. Suken is also the host of The Sync Leadership Lab which is a leadership podcast tackling the biggest challenges facing today’s leaders.

He was born and raised in Southern California, then returned after a decade in the Washington, D.C. area. He is a proud husband as well as father to two children.

From 2020 to 2024, he
  • Was promoted twice.
  • Went through extreme burnout.
  • Stopped leading the way he thought others wanted him to and started leading the way that felt authentic to him.
  • Worked with a coach and started leading with purpose in helping people and companies unleash their potential.
  • Shifted careers and started Synergy Sync to support others through coaching and consulting.
  • Started The Sync Leadership Lab podcast to amplify everyday leaders, motivating people to drive change and provide them tangible ways to do so.

Topics

Leading with Values and Purpose
Learning Objectives:
  • Understanding how people naturally lead and how it is different when people lead from within.
  • Discover your own values and purpose to understand what fulfills you.
  • How to apply these learnings to be a better self and team leader.
  • What actions to take to start leading a more meaningful life and career.
Finding Your Inner Leader
Learning Objectives:
  • Discover the leadership qualities that are most important to you.
  • Address Imposter Syndrome/ Phenomenon.
  • Lead with more clarity and confidence to address any leadership situation.
Defining Your Leadership Voice
Learning Objectives:
  • A brief workshop to help leaders of all levels to better identify their leadership style.
  • Explore and identify the type of leader you want to be.
  • Discover the leadership skills most important for you to lead with.
  • Be able to simply remember and state to others your Leadership Voice.
Overcoming Overwhelm and Burnout with the Mental and Tactical Games
Learning Objectives:
  • Identify overwhelm and burnout in today’s demanding environment.
  • Learn how to address it in proactively or reactively from a mental standpoint.
  • Use tactical tools to manage heavy workload through prioritization tools.
Practical Leadership Lessons from Experience in the Trenches
Learning Objectives:
  • You can read all the books, remember the quotes, and stream the podcasts, but real leadership lessons come from experience.
  • Learn practical tips, tools, and lessons from somebody who spent years building, texting, and optimizing them “in the trenches.”
  • Address culture, engagement, and performance challenges with these practical tools that you can implement today.