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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.
Featured
Building AI Boston · podcast · March 2026
Reimagining Healthcare in the Age of AI
A conversation on sovereignty-grade AI, SEEDS of Innovation™, and the book on its way into the world.
Startup Boston · panel · June 2025
Innovations in Life Sciences: From Lab to Market
A Startup Boston Week panel on translating science into patient-ready products, where Sheila challenges founders to think beyond product-market fit to product-system fit.
Press, podcasts, and recognition
Startup Boston · Feb 2026
2026 Black Leaders Shaping the Greater Boston and New England Startup Scene
Access Amplified · TytoCare · 2025
From Insight to Impact: Building Tech That Actually Works for Patients
Public Health Insight · Feb 2025
Revolutionizing Patient Engagement with AI & Blockchain Technology
The VentureFuel Visionaries · Jul 2023
Health Equity: Boston Medical Center’s Director of Innovation
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
Assessment of the Accuracy of Disease Coding Among Patients Diagnosed with Sarcoma
JAMA Oncology, research letter
Getting Ready for Engineered Cell Therapies—an Administrative Perspective
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 23.3, S148–S149
A Systematic Approach to Providing Safe Quality Care for Patients Receiving Engineered, Non-Stem Cell Therapies
Abstract
Building Value and Capacity with Practice Standards—Autologous Product Collection
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 22.3, S276
Enterprise Risk Management in Health Care Organizations: A Survey and Directions for Future Research
Master’s thesis
Using Lean Methodology to Improve the Quality of Physician Labor Mapping at a VA Medical Services Unit
Poster presentation, Boston University
Financing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care: A Primer
Policy brief
“Positive Examples”: A Bottom-Up Approach to Identifying Best Practices in HIV Care and Treatment
AIDS Patient Care and STDs 25(7), 403–411
A System Dynamics Perspective for Development Practitioners: Improving Rural Health and Income through Microfinance
MPH thesis
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