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Nearly two decades inside American health care, now building the standard that decides how AI enters it. Bios, headshots, the speaker kit, and the full record of press and publications are all on this page.

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Sheila Phicil is a Social Change Futurist™ and founder of Phicil-itate Change, an AI innovation advisory whose team authored the Mass League AI Playbook. She created SEEDS of Innovation™, a decision standard for AI in systems of care, and founded Listen Phirst™, where people keep control of their data and share in the value it creates. Nearly 20 years leading innovation at Brigham, Dana-Farber, and Boston Medical Center. Author of the forthcoming Remembering How to Care.

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Sheila Phicil is a Social Change Futurist™ who helps leaders leverage AI while staying sovereign over their discernment, their decisions, and their data. She leads three companies: Phicil-itate Change, an AI innovation advisory and the home of SEEDS of Innovation™. Listen Phirst™, a public benefit corporation building sovereignty-grade listening infrastructure. And Sheila Phicil Co., her writing and speaking platform.

SEEDS of Innovation™ is a shared decision standard for AI in systems of care. Phicil-itate Change and its team authored the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers’ AI Playbook, now the standard for AI decisions across the fifty community health centers in the state, and the million patients they serve.

She spent nearly two decades inside health care, at Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women’s, the VA, and Boston Medical Center, where she was Director of Innovation for the Health Equity Accelerator. A first-generation Haitian American, she founded her first nonprofit at fourteen. She holds dual master’s degrees from Boston University, is a PMP and FACHE, and is a published co-author in JAMA Oncology. She is the author of the forthcoming Remembering How to Care.

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Sheila Phicil is a Social Change Futurist. She helps leaders leverage AI while staying sovereign over their discernment, their decisions, and their data. She created SEEDS of Innovation and founded Listen Phirst.

Name and marks: the person is Sheila Phicil. The company is Sheila Phicil Co. Please keep Phicil-itate Change hyphenated and Listen Phirst spelled with a PH. Social Change Futurist™, SEEDS of Innovation™, AI-System Fit™, and Listen Phirst™ carry the mark at first use.

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Press, podcasts, and recognition

Startup Boston · Feb 2026

2026 Black Leaders Shaping the Greater Boston and New England Startup Scene

Read

Managed Healthcare Executive · Feb 2026

What Does the End of DEI Mean For SDOH Efforts?

Read

Access Amplified · TytoCare · 2025

From Insight to Impact: Building Tech That Actually Works for Patients

Listen

Word in Black · Feb 2025

What RFK Jr. as Health Secretary Means for Black Well-Being

Read

Public Health Insight · Feb 2025

Revolutionizing Patient Engagement with AI & Blockchain Technology

Listen

Care More Be Better · Jan 2025

How Tech Can Fix The American Healthcare System

Listen

EIN Presswire · Nov 2024

Health Equity Champion Empowers Social Impact Leaders to Drive Change

Read

Notes on Resilience · Feb 2024

Unveiling Trauma’s Impact: Bridging Gaps in Healthcare

Listen

The VentureFuel Visionaries · Jul 2023

Health Equity: Boston Medical Center’s Director of Innovation

Listen

Innovation Storytellers · Oct 2022

How Equity Creates Innovation at Boston Medical Center

Listen

Empowered Patient

Data Analytics and Partnerships Driving Sustainable Healthcare Innovations

Listen

Healthcare Rethink · FinThrive

Boston Medical Center is Leading the Way in Social Impact

Listen

The Brand Blueprint

Empowering Entrepreneurial Excellence

Listen

Techstrong.ai

UnitedHealthcare’s AI Use to Deny Claims is Center of Industrywide Debate

Read

WNHH / New Haven Independent

National Minority Health Month

Watch

Venture Café Cambridge

Speaker profile

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Peer-reviewed publications & research

Co-authored research spanning telehealth equity, oncology data, cell therapy operations, and community health.

Disparities in Telehealth Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 24.6, 1590–1593

2022

Assessment of the Accuracy of Disease Coding Among Patients Diagnosed with Sarcoma

JAMA Oncology, research letter

2018

Getting Ready for Engineered Cell Therapies—an Administrative Perspective

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 23.3, S148–S149

2017

A Systematic Approach to Providing Safe Quality Care for Patients Receiving Engineered, Non-Stem Cell Therapies

Abstract

2016

Building Value and Capacity with Practice Standards—Autologous Product Collection

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 22.3, S276

2016

Enterprise Risk Management in Health Care Organizations: A Survey and Directions for Future Research

Master’s thesis

2016

Using Lean Methodology to Improve the Quality of Physician Labor Mapping at a VA Medical Services Unit

Poster presentation, Boston University

2013

Financing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care: A Primer

Policy brief

2012

“Positive Examples”: A Bottom-Up Approach to Identifying Best Practices in HIV Care and Treatment

AIDS Patient Care and STDs 25(7), 403–411

2011

A System Dynamics Perspective for Development Practitioners: Improving Rural Health and Income through Microfinance

MPH thesis

2010

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