Care That Carries Weight™
Leadership doesn’t fail because people don’t care.
It fails because caring is rarely built into the system.
Cathy Dolan Schweitzer is a keynote speaker, leadership facilitator, and panel moderator who helps construction, healthcare, and A/E/C organizations retain their people, strengthen client trust, and lead through complexity — without burning out the teams that make success possible.
Drawing on 25+ years as a senior healthcare project manager — and the lived experience of being a patient in the environments she helped build — Cathy brings a rare combination of operational credibility and people-centered leadership insight.
Her work helps leaders move from getting projects done to getting them done well.
Cathy Dolan Schweitzer
Keynote Speaker • Leadership Facilitator • Panel Moderator
Author of Health Well Done
Speaks on:
- Leadership & retention in construction and healthcare
- People-centered leadership under pressure
- Culture, communication, and client confidence
- Building teams that stay — and projects that perform
Audiences:
- Construction & A/E/C firms
- Healthcare organizations
- Industry associations
- Leadership conferences, Professional women in construction
What Cathy Speaks About
Cathy’s talks focus on the intersection of leadership, culture, and performance — where people and projects either reinforce each other… or quietly break down.
At the heart of every talk is Cathy’s Systematic Caring Framework™:
Healthy People → Healthy Team → Healthy Project
Because projects don’t build themselves.
People do.
Speaking Formats
Cathy works with organizations in several formats depending on audience and objectives:
- Keynote Presentations (45–75 minutes)
- Interactive Leadership Workshops
- Conference & Association Sessions
- Panel Moderation & Facilitation
- Executive & Senior Leadership Sessions
superintendents, emerging leaders, or cross-disciplinary teams.
Why This Talk Matters
What’s usually missing isn’t effort.
It’s structure for how leaders care for themselves, their teams, and their clients — at the same time.
Cathy’s talks give leaders:
- language for conversations they’ve been avoiding
- practical tools to reduce friction and burnout
- a framework that aligns people, performance, and purpose
- permission to lead with both strength and humanity
It stabilizes teams, protects client relationships, and strengthens long-term performance.
About Cathy
Cathy Dolan Schweitzer is the founder of Health Well Done, author of Health Well Done, and a professional speaker on leadership and culture in construction and healthcare. A former special education teacher with a master’s degree in Integrative Medicine, Cathy brings a rare blend of teaching skill, systems thinking, and human-centered leadership to complex project environments.
Her work was shaped further by being a cancer patient in the same environments her teams helped build—an experience that inspired her Healthy People → Healthy Teams → Healthy Projects framework. She has over 25 years of healthcare project management experience and has been a member of the National Speakers Association (NY) since 2013.
What Audiences Say
Kathleen Silard
President and CEO at Stamford Hospital
Ana Tracy Hawkins
BizDevel
David Golab
SMPS–New York
Her ability to listen deeply, ask the right questions, and connect perspectives across disciplines made the session meaningful and impactful. Cathy brings warmth, credibility, and leadership presence to the room — and it shows.”
Audience Feedback Summary
Talk-a-dot Post-Event Survey Analytics
Podcast Interview with Cathy
THE NICHE FINDER PODCAST
PMO STRATEGIES
with Laura Barnard
Soft As Steel
with Dennis Doran
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Let’s Start the Conversation
Looking for a speaker who understands both the pressure of leadership and the people doing the work?
Cathy works with:
- Construction and A/E/C firms
- Healthcare organizations
- Industry associations
- Leadership conferences and executive retreats
Video clips, references, and speaker materials available upon request.
Cathy Dolan Schweitzer Bio
Building People
Who Build Better Projects
Cathy helps professionals in the A/E/C industry build the skills to become people centered leaders who then can lead teams with health, creativity and innovation as key metrics for keeping our country’s economy strong and healthy. This attitude allows both men and women to contribute their unique skills and talents together so that everyone in the organization thrives.
Cathy believes that companies today are made up of teams and “healthy” teams are the fuel that drives organizations to deliver on their strategy. A team’s collective wisdom and experience impacts communities, people’s health and the planet while still maintaining profitability. “Healthy” leaders have the skills and tools to corral groups of passionate and smart people who can work together to make a difference.
From the virtual world to the stage Cathy is a teacher at heart and combines her twenty-six years of experience in healthcare and commercial project management with a MA in Experiential Health and Healing. From a young age health has always been a priority for Cathy. She has a keen understanding of how poor health affects ones’ perspective and performance. Her goal is to motivate teams to plan for the health of people and the planet while maintaining or exceeding performance objectives. She creates inspirational programs that include the power of people centered leadership, the importance of positive mental wellness, healthy collaboration, connection, caring and listening to your team.
Cathy was a founding co-chair of the Professional Women in Construction Professional Development (PDAC) and is a member of National Speakers Association NYC. Cathy is married with two children, Julia and Alexa, her granddaughter Emerson, Cali (the dog) and has one foot in Vermont and the other in NY.