With over a decade of experience in healthcare management, leadership and research, Dr. Meese is a researcher and scholar in the field of organizational behavior, well-being, and leadership. Dr. Meese has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and has served as an evaluator on multi-million dollar grants. She has co-authored two textbooks on organizational behavior in healthcare that are used in over 160 schools across the country. Her most recent book is The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust with Quint Studer.
Dr. Meese also teaches and mentors graduate, doctoral and executive students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Health Services Administration, home to the #1 ranked MSHA program (U.S. News and World Report).
She is an internationally recognized keynote speaker, delivering over 100 presentations, workshops and keynotes across the globe. Her passion is to translate data and research into meaningful knowledge to help leaders and organizations support their humans.
Dr. Meese has a B.B.A from Texas A&M, an MPH from the University of Texas Health Science Center, and a PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She lives in the Nashville, TN area with her husband and two children.
Dr. Meese brings decades of organizational behavior research into designing and teaching meaningful tactics that leaders can use right now to transform their organizations and teams. She translates the theoretical into the actionable through highly interactive and engaging keynotes to multi-day workshops.
Sample Keynote Topics
Content customized based on event and organization.
- Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust
- Autonomy & Job Crafting
- Harnessing the Power of a Multigenerational Workforce
- Simulation: Interpreting Data – Crash Course for Leaders
- Lavender Oil Won’t Fix This: Leadership Strategies for Burnout
- Creating Healthy Teams
- Women at Work: Influence, Authenticity and Voice
- Women at Work: Building Your Network Bouquet