Physician executive · founder · author
When clinical and administrative leaders see the same problem differently, important work can stall.
Dr. Peter Valenzuela brings experience leading medical groups, building a company, and telling healthcare’s stories through humor. His keynotes and facilitated programs help teams understand each other, make clearer decisions, and put promising ideas into practice.
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Speaking and facilitation
Whether you’re planning a conference or bringing your leadership team together, choose a session that addresses the challenges your audience faces. Start with a keynote, or go deeper with a facilitated program tailored to your team’s work.
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.
Explore the keynoteA candid look at turning an idea into a business
What happens when a physician decides to tackle a problem beyond the exam room? Peter shares the experiments, setbacks, and decisions behind building a company, with practical lessons for testing an idea while balancing a demanding career.
Explore the keynoteA six-week program for physician and administrative leaders
Help your leadership partners get clear on shared priorities, responsibilities, and who makes which decisions. Through facilitated conversations, participants develop a 90-day action plan and a process for following through.
Explore the Dyad Alignment LabAn eight-week program that helps frontline ideas move forward
Give clinicians a structured way to develop ideas for improving care and the work around it. Teams evaluate opportunities, select ideas worth testing, and create clear pilot proposals for organizational sponsors.
Explore the Innovation SprintWhat colleagues say
“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.”
Forthcoming novel · 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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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.
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