About
Before I ever stepped into a boardroom, I was amplifying voices.
At 8 years old, I was co-hosting a youth radio show. At 14, I founded my first nonprofit, Children In Action, serving and mobilizing the Haitian community across Florida. I am a first-generation Haitian American, and I learned early that the voices systems fail are present, powerful, and waiting to be heard. They were designed out. I design them back in.
Then I went inside. Nearly two decades across the institutions that decide who gets to be well: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, and Boston Medical Center, where I served as Director of Innovation for the Health Equity Accelerator. I was rewarded for dashboards. I kept asking who was healed.
So I built my own architecture: SEEDS of Innovation™, Listen Phirst™, and Phicil-itate Change. Systems designed to scale without moral debt, underpinned by ancestral wisdom, sacred practice, and the operational rigor those institutions taught me. I hold both worlds. That is the work.
~20 years
of healthcare innovation leadership inside the nation’s most influential institutions
MPH + MS · PMP · FACHE
Dual master’s degrees from Boston University in Public Health and Financial Economics
10 publications
Including JAMA Oncology and the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Off the stage · real life
6th Annual Haitian American Young Professional Awards Gala, Boston, MA. Where I was named 2025 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist.
The Fanal Forest, Madeira, Portugal. Where I fell in love with trees.
Sunrise ceremony for my 39th birthday, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Where I remembered how to be still.
What I build
One idea, three companies. Each carries a different part of the work: sovereignty over your discernment, your decisions, and your data.
Phicil-itate Change
An AI innovation advisory, and the home of SEEDS of Innovation™: a shared decision standard for AI in systems of care, so the decision stays with the person.
Listen Phirst™
A public benefit corporation building sovereignty-grade listening infrastructure, where people keep control of their data and share in the value it creates.
Sheila Phicil Co.
The platform through which the writing, the speaking, and the book reach the people who need them.
The story continues in the book.
Remembering How to Care is forthcoming. Waitlist members hear first.
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