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Dr. Stephen Thompson speaks at the intersection of clinical medicine, civic infrastructure, Black healing, and human governance. He brings the survivor-scholar-clinician perspective to conferences, universities, corporations, and community spaces.
Speaking Topics
Corporations · Universities · Conferences
Human Enterprise Theory
How governance structures shape who thrives and who is extracted — and what organizations can do to change that. Bridges structural critique with practical, embodied action.
Healing Communities · Conferences · Faith Spaces
Survival as Genius
Reframing trauma adaptation as intelligence. A survivor-scholar-clinician perspective on the nervous system, chronic stress, and what it looks like to truly reclaim agency.
Civic · Academic · Media
The Algorithmic Plantation
A deep examination of how digital systems replicate the structural mechanisms of exploitation — and how communities build counter-architectures of truth and power.
Medical · Clinical · Academic
Integrative Medicine & Whole-Person Care
The intersection of Traditional Chinese Medicine, chiropractic care, trauma-informed practice, and nervous system science. What true whole-person healing looks like in clinical settings.
Civic Organizations · HBCUs · Youth
Civic Alignment in the AI Era
How AI-powered tools like GroundedVote can restore trust in democratic participation — and why civic infrastructure needs to be built for those most harmed by the current system.
Youth Organizations · Schools · Community Programs
Emerging Adult Governance
Applied Human Enterprise Theory for high school and college students. The governance framework for young people ready to build serious lives.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Stephen Thompson is a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC), Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM), and Fellow of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (FAIHM). He is an assistant professor at Northwestern Health Sciences University and the founder of The Founded Project ecosystem.
His work spans clinical practice, civic technology, book authorship, and youth leadership development. He is the creator of Human Enterprise Theory, the Thompson Coaching Method, and GroundedVote — a nonpartisan civic alignment engine designed to restore policy-based democratic participation.
He speaks from lived experience, clinical depth, and institutional fluency — never from above, always from alongside.
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