Randy Fox will discuss how to bring out the best in people when he delivers the keynote address at Emergency Nursing 2024.
Randy Fox has long believed that people are more alike than they are different, and part of what they hold in common is that they want to make a difference.
“People are starving for a culture and environment that lets them thrive. We need tools to be able to build one another up,” said Fox, the keynote speaker for Emergency Nursing 2024.
By the end of his high-energy keynote, titled “Silver Platter Service: Get Ready to Shine and Answer the Call to Excellence,” Fox said he hopes attendees will take away at least one “golden nugget” that will inspire them to be their best professionally and personally.
Having achieved success as both a corporate leader and an NCAA women’s basketball referee, Fox knows about finding the right place to thrive. His first job after graduating from Illinois State University was in sales at a printing company.
“I was awful,” Fox said, hitting just 34 percent of his quota in his first year. But his supervisors saw something promising in him and transferred him to an operations role. From there, he developed as a leader. Throughout his corporate career of nearly 25 years, he moved among marketing, management and business development roles, helping not only the company grow, but inspiring people to be their best professionally and personally.
Opening Session keynote speaker Randy Fox
Fox brought that drive to foster personal development to his referee career, too, spending almost a decade in an administrative role training and coordinating about 125 officials for 23 colleges.
“I always loved speaking and motivating people. It was something I always felt called to,” he said. “Instead of sending my employees to leadership programs, I led my own.”
About a decade ago, Fox left his corporate position to launch his own speaking and writing career. His most recent book is “The Call to Excellence.”
When he takes the stage at the annual conference in September, Fox knows he won’t be just talking to one group of nurses. He will be talking to hundreds of individuals.
“Each person is showing up, and each person is in a different place,” he said, and each person in the audience has the potential to return to their own sphere of influence — their workplaces, homes, communities — and inspire change.
Fox enjoys speaking with groups in health care fields, and he will share some of his own stories about finding the right care at the right time. He is looking forward to kicking off Emergency Nursing 2024 with humor, energy and encouragement.
“My real hope is that they are reminded that they matter, and they bring value, and they reignite their desire to keep saving lives,” he said.
Hear more from Randy Fox on the ENA Podcast.