Physician executive · founder · author
Keynotes and facilitated programs that help physician and administrative leaders align priorities, make clearer decisions, and turn ideas into action.
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A keynote about what healthcare humor reveals
Sometimes a cartoon captures what everyone has been thinking. Peter uses his original healthcare comics to help audiences examine familiar frustrations, understand different perspectives, and begin conversations that lead to change.
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“Peter was invaluable, leading a critical strategic planning process. His command of complex issues allowed him to successfully facilitate our meeting, eliciting insightful comments and engaging our members throughout the process. He is a consummate physician leader and professional.”
Speaking and facilitated programs
Physician entrepreneurship
Learn to test a focused idea, question assumptions with potential customers, and identify the evidence needed to take the next step.
Keynote · 45–60 minutes
Explore the keynoteLeadership alignment
Align shared priorities, clarify who decides what, and leave with a 90-day action plan, named owners, and scheduled progress reviews.
Facilitated program · 6 weeks
Explore the Dyad Alignment LabClinician-led innovation
Evaluate frontline ideas, develop clear pilot proposals, and identify physician and administrative leads to bring the strongest opportunities forward for sponsor review.
Facilitated program · 8 weeks
Explore the Innovation Sprint
About Peter
Peter Valenzuela is a family physician, healthcare executive, entrepreneur, and author with more than 20 years of leadership experience across integrated health systems and multispecialty medical groups.
His work has given him a close view of the pressures clinicians face and the decisions leaders must make. Through speaking, facilitation, books, and his original Doc-Related comics, he helps people examine those challenges with candor, curiosity, and humor.
Meet Peter
Forthcoming historical conspiracy thriller
The perfect city was built on a lie.
Florida, 1973. A researcher’s death draws historian Elias Thorne and cryptographer Sarah Lin into the secrets of Meridian, a privately governed city built to eliminate disorder.
As they investigate, they uncover a system that does more than keep the city running. It shapes the choices of everyone who lives there.
Books and ideas
Amazon Bestseller
The frustrations of modern medicine are often easier to recognize than to discuss. Through original comics, stories, and insights, Peter explores the human side of healthcare and invites readers to consider how it could work better.
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Amazon Bestseller
Make small talk more interesting and feel more prepared for your next conversation. Discover history, cultural insights, surprising facts, and riddles that give you something memorable to share and more to ask about.
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