You can care deeply
without losing yourself.
MARCUS GREATHEART MD MSW
Physician, Social Worker, Facilitator
I help healthcare teams, educators, and community organizations who support people facing addiction, homelessness, and mental illness. I deliver keynotes and workshops that give staff practical skills to care deeply without burning out.
Book Marcus to Speak or Facilitate
Inquire about keynotes, workshops, and facilitated sessions for your organization. Please include your role, organization, preferred dates, and what kind of support your team needs.Someone will respond within 2 business days.
About Marcus
What leaders are saying...
“Dr. Marcus Greatheart is a rare kind of speaker—reliable, deeply authentic, and able to connect with people on a profoundly human level. At our conference, his talk stood out as one of those moments that people don’t just hear, they feel. He speaks to what we all need to be reminded of: the power of love, community, and humanity. Marcus doesn’t just share ideas—he leaves you changed.”
-Dr. Sara Lea, Medical Director
Education, Onboarding and Leadership Development, Island Health
Dr. Marcus Greatheart is a physician and social worker who works at the frontlines of medicine, caring for people who are often pushed to the margins. He brings clarity, grounded empathy, and a commitment to justice into every room.Marcus focuses on compassionate, trauma-informed care and system-level change. With experience in clinical care, outreach, and leadership, he helps teams explore how to show up for marginalized people while staying effective and human.
Speaking and Workshops for Real-World Care
Who hires Marcus
→ Health systems and primary care networks
→ Hospitals and residency programs
→ Universities and training programs
→ Community agencies and NGOsWhat Marcus delivers
Keynotes and workshops that build practical communication, trust-building, and leadership skills for teams working with addiction, homelessness, and mental illness.Topics
Leading with compassion without burning out
Trust with marginalized communities
Burnout prevention in frontline work
Trauma-informed systems practice
Quiet leadership for culture changeOutcomes
Teams leave with scripts, language, and tools for real encounters. They gain a shared framework for how to care deeply without losing effectiveness.Online workshops are coming. Join the list to get dates, topics and early registration.
Watch Marcus Speak and see how he works with audiences.
Watch Marcus Speak
Watch Marcus in action in this PechaKucha talk on street medicine, burnout prevention, and why compassion is a strategy, not a weakness.
TikTok Reach
Videos have reached over 1.9 million views in the last year, resonating with clinicians, families, and leaders. Most viewed video has over 850K views, opening with the blunt truth: “Using drugs is the only thing that makes homelessness tolerable.
Resources
for Clinicians
Be the Doctor You Always Wanted to Be is a reflective workbook for physicians who want to reconnect with why they chose medicine. With more than 100 prompts on communication, meaning, and burnout, it is used by residency programs and wellness groups as a structured way to talk about the hard parts of practice.
I live and work on the unceded territory of the Laichwiltach people, and the We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum and Kwaikah First Nations, for which I am truly grateful.“Compassion is empathy in action.”© 2026 Dr. Marcus Greatheart