Daniel Friedland, MD

Daniel enables leaders of business and healthcare organizations transform stress and burnout into high performance conscious leadership, resulting in people and organizations that are more connected, innovative, engaged and profitable.

As Founder & CEO of SuperSmartHealth and the Chair of the largest integrative health organization in the country, the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine, Daniel helps people harness and leverage stress to become a motivating energy source so they can resolve conflicts, collaborate, get more done, continually innovate and find greater success and significance at work and at home.

His talks on Leading Well From Within, Conscious Leadership and Transforming Burnout into Resilience are evidence-based with a solid foundation in neuroscience and mindfulness practice, and are presented with inspiring and entertaining stories and a warm, engaging human touch.

An internationally recognized thought leader and a passionate and dynamic keynote speaker, educator, coach and consultant on Leadership Development, Culture Transformation, Stress Management, Resilience, Wellness Empowerment and Evidence-Based Medicine, Daniel has worked with diverse businesses, healthcare and nonprofit organizations such as: Genentech, Bridgepoint Education, The Kaiser Permanente Federation, Group Health, Blue Cross, the US Army, Navy, and Air Force, GlaxoSmithKline, Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, The YMCA, Interface, American Academy of Pediatricians, YPO, Conscious Capitalism, and leaders in the Texas state and Australian governments, as well as hospital systems, global wellness organizations and leading academic institutions – having delivered over 1500 presentations, reaching more than 75,000 health care and business professionals worldwide.

An immigrant from South Africa, Daniel graduated from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) medical school, where he also did his residency in Internal Medicine and a teaching Fellowship. He is the author of the first medical textbook published in the United States on Evidence Based Medicine – now the standard of care for all healthcare practitioners.

Daniel’s passion for his work on transforming burnout into resilience and conscious leadership originated in medical school. In his second year, Daniel experienced burnout and depression – a result of unmanaged stress – which could have ended his promising medical career. Instead, after discovering that over half of UCSF’s medical students were in therapy, he faced the challenge “head-on” and started up the UCSF Medical Student Network to cultivate resiliency, leadership and the compassionate delivery of healthcare.

Since then, Daniel’s mission is to help people – whether healthcare providers, business leaders, professionals or parents – discover how to harness and leverage stress, transform it into an energy source, and become more conscious, compassionate and effective leaders.