Sheila Phicil

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: the SEEDS Innovation Framework, 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

Sheila at an awards celebration
Sheila in sacred practice
Sheila delivering a keynote at LabCentral

What I build

One mission, three vessels. Each carries a different part of the work.

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Phicil-itate Change

Building sovereign systems in healthcare AI so every decision that shapes care works for every individual. Home of the SEEDS of Innovation framework.

Visit phicil-itatechange.com

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Listen Phirst

Your sovereign identity belongs to you, permanently, and your story shapes the future of care. Sovereignty-grade listening infrastructure for healthcare.

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Sheila Phicil

A sovereign architect of change, amplifying the voices systems fail and making that change visible. The book, the stage, and the Health Futurist Circle. You are here.

The story continues in the book.

Remembering How to Care arrives September 2026.

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