Discover the latest best practices on how to prevent executive burnout & stress. Learn from experts, executives, celebrities, authors, & medical icons (some affiliated with Yale & Harvard Medical Schools, & Silver Hill Hospital.) Based on what you’ve learned, leave with an executive burnout & stress prevention strategic action plan.

Event Co-Hosts

Martha R. A. Fields

President & CEO, OKI ME, LLC & Author

Former VP Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital

Andrew Gerber, M.D.

President & Medical Director, Silver Hill Hospital

Keynote Speakers

Nile Rodgers

International Songwriter, Producer, Artist, & 2023 Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement/Special Merit Award Recipient, Six Time Grammy
Winner, & Rock and Roll / Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee.

Nile wrote classics like “We Are Family” and wrote and produced timeless music for icons including Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna, and many more including most recently for Daft Punk and Beyoncé. A mega-savvy entrepreneur, he co-founded the Hipgnosis Song Fund, A FTSE 250 company on the London Stock Market with a net asset value of $2.7 billion. As a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, he turned his life around by
seeking treatment at Silver Hill Hospital.

Jonny Podell

From Making Million Dollar Music Deals on Park Avenue to living on park benches, hear from Jonny Podell, super successful music agent to the stars, about what he learned from crashing then recovering
from burnout and stress.

Opening Remarks

Petra Pilgrim, M.D.

Director of Steward Program, Silver Hill Hospital

Panelists: Best Practices to Prevent Burnout & Stress

Michael Holmes

Chief Operating Officer, Yale New Haven Hospital

Michael Groat, PhD

Chief Clinical Officer, Silver Hill Hospital

Elizabeth Ortiz- Schwartz, M.D., DFAPA

Attending Psychiatrist, Silver Hill Hospital

Panelists: Preventing Burnout by Changing Jobs & Balancing Work/Life

Myranne Janoff

Managing Partner, Zurick Davis

Jacqueline Nelson

Director Diversity & Inclusion, St. Lukes School

Dr. Laurence Stybel, Ed.D

President, Stybel Peabody Associates

Work Rejuvenation Break Techniques: Meditation & Nutrition Assessment

Tanvi Gandhi, N.D.

Naturopathic Physician, & Licensed Acupuncturist in CT and NY.

Sam Strasfeld

Nutrition Nerd, Personal Trainer, & Kaizen Coach

Award Recipients

Dale Shadbegian

CEO, Cape & Plymouth Business Media

Cape Cod Executive on Effectively Balancing Work/Life in a Top Vacation Destination

General David Ohle

Retired U.S. Army

Immacula Cann, DNP, RN-BC

Chief Nursing Officer, Silver Hill Hospital

Stephen N. Xenakis, M.D.

Brigadier General, Retired U.S. Army

Lamond Daniels, LCSW

MPA Chief of Community Services, Norwalk, Connecticut

Lessons from the “Blue Zones” (Five Places People Live the Longest & Healthiest)

Martha R. A. Fields shares purpose, stress, and burnout lessons from her 8th book and experiences growing up in Okinawa, Japan, the #1 place in the world with more healthy people +110 years of age.