In 1988, only recently out of medical school, Dr. Heinzl founded Doctors Without Borders, Canada, and in 1990 became the organization's first field volunteer. Since that time hundreds of other Canadian volunteers have followed in his footsteps, bringing their healing skills to the world's most vulnerable people. Along the way, Dr. Heinzl has received numerous awards and citations, including being named to Report on Business Magazine's prestigious Top 40 Under 40 List.

Dr. Heinzl is the former CEO of Toronto-based CardioView Inc., an information technology company in the field of cardiology. He is also the Vice President of Vivid Health Solutions which creates motion picture and new media solutions for the health sciences. Dr. Heinzl's presentations are a life-affirming celebration of the ability we all have to make a difference in this world, and a how-to guide for organizations that want to inject more energy and commitment into their culture, and become more global in their outlook. Filled with inspiring anecdotes of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, his speeches move audiences to a renewed optimism in the human capacity to create positive change in the midst of daunting challenges. Dr. Heinzl's much-anticipated memoir chronicling the incredible story of Doctor Without Borders, Canada, is due for release in early 2008.

Understaffed and with few supplies, Dr. Richard Heinzl tells the story of how he and his colleagues at Doctors Without Borders faced an overwhelming humanitarian crisis during the Iraq War. To succeed they relied on lessons learned from all over the world: lessons relevant to individuals, businesses and organizations anywhere. In this speech, which has been receiving outstanding reviews, Richard shares insights into a range of topics such as the importance of a non-conventional approach to problem solving, embracing change and transformation, and the exponential change in technology and its impact worldwide. This multimedia presentation will have your audience inspired at the resiliance and adaptability of the human spirit, while they also learn some valuable lessons that they can apply in their personal and professional lives.

Sharing experiences from the world's conflict zones, Dr. Heinzl draws a connection between those places cut off from the world and the high tech world in the West where he is now a CEO. Believing technology holds enormous promise not just for us in Canada but for the disadvantaged and emerging populations worldwide, he talks about his work a decade ago in rural Cambodia where there wasn't a single working telephone in town and brings it to the present where kids now surf the Web at a café in the same town and walk down the main street chatting on cell phones.

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