Global Lead for Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft for Startups; Digital Health Innovation Strategist and Startup Go-To-Market Expert; Author of "The Startup Protocol" and "The Unicorn Protocol"
Sally Ann Frank Biography
Sally Ann Frank is global lead for health and life sciences at Microsoft for Startups, where she leads the global health and life sciences strategy, programs and portfolio to accelerate the development of innovative, market-making companies. Through business strategy planning, go-to-market development and technical excellence, Frank enables startups to achieve short-term revenue goals and long-term visions. Previously, she was part of Microsoft’s IoT Solutions team, helping health care and life sciences organizations use IoT to improve patient outcomes and efficiency.
With more than 25 years in the technology industry, Frank focuses on business outcomes, helping providers, payers, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies apply IoT, machine learning and artificial intelligence along with a variety of other Microsoft technologies to meet the changing demands of the health care industry.
She earned an MBA from George Washington University in Washington, DC, an MS in systems management from the University of Southern California and a BS in marketing and computer science from Virginia Tech. Frank is the author of "The Startup Protocol: A Guide for Digital Health Startups to Bypass Pitfalls and Adopt Strategies that Work." Her next book, "The Unicorn Protocol: Digital Health Unicorns, How They Got There and What You Can Learn from Them," is scheduled for publication in January 2026.
Frank is a lifelong learner, business leader and wellness enthusiast. She is a devoted wife, mother and daughter. Outside of work she enjoys yoga, Pilates, adventure travel, mentoring startup founders and her seven-pound Chihuahua.
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Sally Ann Frank Speaking Topics
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Digital Health Start-Ups: Harnessing Innovation to Disrupt and Improve Care Delivery
To achieve true digital health transformation, stakeholders across the digital health ecosystem must adopt a posture of curiosity, wonderment, passion, and healthy skepticism to disrupt current norms of care in favor of those that are truly game changers. Astute healthcare organizations have adopted a culture that supports innovation from the “bedside to the boardroom,” synthesizing the experiences gained throughout the patient journey into meaningful and lasting transformation. To ensure that patient-centric care is focused on quality outcomes, and ease of access for all, care delivery must harness the power of innovation, leveraging and responding to market forces that are influencing how we innovate.
Learning Objective #1: Receive a high-level overview of the positive impact that digital health start-ups are making in today’s healthcare environment
Learning Objective #2: Identify the macro trends affecting the adoption of new technology in healthcare
Learning Objective #3: Identify ways to begin one’s own journey of disrupting and improving care delivery
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Building a Digital Health Startup
This session identifies blind spots and how to avoid the most common pitfalls of starting a digital health company. Having spent time with founders, VC companies, and most importantly, prospective digital health startups, patterns have emerged regarding those startups that are successful and those that die an often slow and painful death. While not a recipe for guaranteed success, having a guidebook of sorts can help navigate the perils associated with building a digital health company and can very likely improve the odds of success.
The session goes through the typical life cycle of an early-stage company, from ideation to the first few customer deals, and highlight best practices for tackling the challenges at each stage including:
- What problem are you trying to solve?
- And why are you trying to solve this problem?
- Who will help you build the solution and company?
- How will you build the solution?
- How will you pitch your company?
- How will you sell your solution?
- And, what does success look like to you, your stakeholders, and your customers?
Sally Ann Frank Videos
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Sally Ann Frank is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Digital Health Start-Ups: Harnessing Innovation to Disrupt and Improve Care Delivery and Building a Digital Health Startup . The estimated speaking fee range to book Sally Ann Frank for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Sally Ann Frank generally travels from Charlotte, NC, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Esther Dyson, Nicole Yeary, Alicia Asín, Sharon Gai and Linda Bernardi. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Sally Ann Frank for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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