Speaking & Thought Leadership

Talks on implementation,
behavior,
and the systems between.

Exploring what happens when clinical recommendations leave the care setting and meet the realities of everyday life.

Signature Talk

60 min45 minPanelWorkshop

Engineering the Last Mile: Turning Healthcare Recommendations Into Real-World Systems

Many care delivery conversations focus on what happens inside the clinical encounter. This talk examines what happens after it. Drawing from implementation science, instructional design, and the realities of patient environments, the session explores the conditions that influence whether clinical recommendations can realistically become part of everyday life.

AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS

  • •Identify the implementation gap between clinical recommendation and real-world execution.
  • •Recognize environmental, behavioral, and structural conditions that influence implementation.
  • •Apply implementation design principles to strengthen patient experience, care delivery, and between-visit support.

Available Topics

Eight perspectives.
One implementation problem.

Each talk examines a different dimension of the same challenge: what it takes for healthcare recommendations to become workable in the real world.

01Keynote

Engineering the Last Mile of Healthcare

What happens after the appointment, and why the implementation layer deserves greater attention in modern care delivery.

02Framework

Why Recommendations Fail After the Appointment

A systems-level examination of the structural, environmental, and contextual factors that influence whether a care plan can become part of everyday life.

03Clinical

Patient Implementation Literacy

Moving beyond information alone to examine the knowledge, structure, options, and context people may need to implement recommendations in their actual lives.

04Culture

Designing for Human Behavior

Implementation-centered approaches that account for real-world constraints without reducing implementation difficulty to personal failure.

05Design

Designing Care Plans for Real Life

Applying instructional design principles and systems thinking to improve how care recommendations are structured and delivered.

06Equity

Food Deserts, Health Deserts, and Implementation Barriers

The environmental, economic, and structural conditions that shape what patients can realistically do, with a focus on how care design can better account for those realities.

07Education

What Healthcare Can Learn from Instructional Design

Applying learning design principles to clinical communication, patient education, care planning, and long-term behavior change.

08Digital

The Internet Is a Learning Environment

What instructional design and digital marketing reveal about how people process information, build trust, make decisions, and move from attention to action online.

Appropriate Venues

Speaking at the venues where
healthcare gets redefined.

Designed for audiences working at the intersection of healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, education, innovation, and implementation.

Healthcare ConferencesPublic Health ConferencesClinical Grand RoundsInnovation SummitsHealth Equity ForumsMedical School ProgramsSchools of Public HealthNursing ProgramsAllied Health ProgramsResidency & Fellowship ProgramsHospital Leadership RetreatsHealth System Learning InstitutesCommunity Health OrganizationsNonprofit Health OrganizationsRural Health NetworksPopulation Health InitiativesFunctional Medicine SymposiaContinuing Medical Education (CME) ProgramsHealthcare Workforce Development EventsBehavioral Health ConferencesDigital Health & Health Tech EventsInternational Development & Health Systems Events

Speaker Bio

Talia Drayton

Talia Drayton is the founder of Drayton Health Systems and creator of the F.A.V.E. Framework, an implementation framework focused on what happens between clinical recommendations and their execution in everyday life.

Her background spans learning design, healthcare training, behavioral health, managed care, public health, digital communication, and community-based initiatives. Across these environments, she became interested in a recurring question: what determines whether good information can actually become workable action?

Her work brings together instructional design, implementation science, public health, communications, behavior change, food systems, and systems thinking to examine the conditions surrounding implementation.

Talia speaks on healthcare implementation, instructional design, patient experience, health equity, human behavior, digital learning environments, and the systems that shape what happens beyond the clinical encounter.

Selected Engagements

Selected Teaching, Speaking & Advisory Experience

—Speaker: 10th Annual Patient Experience Symposium
—Speaker: Mayo Clinic Health System: Transforming Community, Regional, and Rural Healthcare 2026
—Guest Lecturer: University of South Florida College of Public Health
—Learning & Development Leader: Managed Care, Behavioral Health, LTSS, and Community Health Programs
—Healthcare Workforce Development & Clinical Training Design
—International Public Health & Community Development Experience

Next Step

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