SPEAKING & APPEARANCES

When Story Becomes Strategy, Healthcare Changes.

Erica Olenski, BCPA, CPXP, eFACHDM brings lived experience into the rooms shaping healthcare’s future - challenging leaders to see human agency not as an aspiration, but as strategic intelligence for designing better systems, technologies, and outcomes.

Erica’s Upcoming Appearances & Events

emergING 2026 brings together leaders, innovators, patient advocates, researchers, technologists, and decision-makers across the clinical research ecosystem to explore the future of human-centric clinical trials. Erica will join the Innovation Network community in West Chester for conversations focused on collaboration, emerging ideas, and advancing clinical research in ways that better serve patients and the people behind the data.
HealthDataCon 2026 is a 24-hour global virtual conference bringing together leaders across health data, informatics, technology, policy, and innovation. Erica will join the international health data community for conversations exploring how data, intelligence, and emerging technologies can translate into measurable impact across healthcare.
The MedTech Conference brings together thousands of leaders, innovators, investors, policymakers, and healthcare decision-makers from across the global medtech ecosystem. Erica will join the community in Boston for conversations exploring emerging technologies, patient access, digital health, policy, and the innovations shaping the future of healthcare.
The eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting brings together leaders from across healthcare, technology, public health, and government to advance nationwide health information exchange and interoperability. Erica will join more than 250 healthcare leaders in Texas for conversations focused on strengthening connection across the health ecosystem, improving information access, and building the infrastructure needed to better serve patients and communities.
MedCity INVEST Digital Health brings together healthcare leaders, innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs to explore the technologies and ideas reshaping how people access and experience care. Erica will participate in the 2026 gathering in Dallas, joining conversations around consumer-driven healthcare, digital innovation, emerging technology, and the future of more responsive, human-centered health systems.
CNS Summit brings together a curated community of life sciences leaders working across clinical development, healthcare innovation, technology, patient advocacy, investment, and regulation. Erica will attend the 2026 Summit in Boston, joining conversations focused on emerging technologies, data, drug development, and the collaborative approaches shaping the future of life sciences and patient care.
Erica joins the Managed Care Resource Alliance to present “The New Patient Experience Era,” exploring how evolving expectations, lived experience, and human agency are reshaping what meaningful patient experience looks like across healthcare. Her presentation challenges healthcare leaders to look beyond traditional measures of engagement and consider the conditions that enable people to understand, decide, and act within their own care.
HLTH USA brings together more than 12,000 leaders from across healthcare, technology, life sciences, investment, government, and the clinical community to examine what’s next for the industry. Erica will attend the 2026 gathering in Las Vegas, joining conversations around intelligent healthcare, emerging technology, patient experience, access, and the evolving systems shaping the future of care.

The Approach

Not Just a Story. A Strategy You Can Use.

Healthcare is full of conversations about transformation, innovation, technology, and patient-centered care.

Erica Olenski asks a different question: What changes when the people living healthcare are treated as sources of strategic intelligence?

Her sessions move beyond storytelling for inspiration alone. Drawing from patient advocacy, healthcare strategy, and lived experience, Erica helps audiences recognize the conditions that shape human agency - and understand how those insights can inform the systems, technologies, policies, and decisions that shape care.

The result is a conversation that is deeply human without losing strategic rigor: one that challenges healthcare leaders to listen differently, design differently, and turn lived experience into action.

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Authority & Impact

The Experience Behind the Perspective.

Erica’s work sits at the intersection of healthcare innovation, technology, strategic communication, patient advocacy, and lived experience.

Her perspective has been shaped not only by nearly two decades working across healthcare and emerging technology, but by years spent navigating complex care from the inside - as a caregiver, advocate, strategist, community builder, and leader.

She brings that full perspective to every stage: connecting the realities people live with the systems, technologies, and decisions shaping what healthcare becomes.