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As nurses comprise the largest workforce in healthcare with unique capacity to drive meaningful change, nursing leadership has emerged as a critical element of professional development and organizational success. Today’s nursing leaders must navigate complex challenges including multi-generational workforces, technological transformation, financial constraints, workforce sustainability and evolving care delivery models while maintaining unwavering focus on clinical quality and patient outcomes.
Business Research Intelligence Network’s Nursing Leadership Summit brings together chief nursing officers, nursing directors, nurse managers and aspiring nurse leaders to explore evidence-based strategies for developing leadership capabilities that inspire teams, influence organizational direction and elevate the nursing profession.
The summit provides nursing leaders with practical knowledge to enhance their leadership skills, build resilient teams and drive strategic initiatives that deliver measurable results. Join us to explore how strong nursing leadership creates workplaces where nurses thrive, patients receive exceptional care and organizations achieve their most ambitious goals.
7:15am – 8:00am
Conference Registration & Networking Breakfast
8:00am – 8:15am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
8:15am – 9:00am
Leadership Fundamentals: Core Qualities That Define Exceptional Nurse Leaders
What separates good nurse leaders from truly exceptional ones? This session cuts to the heart of nursing leadership by examining the essential qualities that enable leaders to inspire followership, drive results and create lasting impact. Drawing from leadership research and nursing-specific contexts, you'll explore the critical importance of motivation and passion for the profession, integrity in clinical and business decisions, self-confidence grounded in clinical competence and servant leadership mindset. We'll tackle how these foundational traits translate into daily leadership behaviors including decisive decision-making during crises, teaching and developing others, and uniting diverse teams around common goals. You'll walk away with a clear framework for assessing and strengthening your own leadership foundation.
9:00am – 9:45am
Leading Multi-Generational Nursing Teams: Communication Strategies That Work
With five generations now working side by side in nursing, leaders face unprecedented communication and engagement challenges. Different generations have distinct preferences for how they receive information, what motivates them and how they define professional success. This session tackles the practical realities of leading across generational divides including adapting communication methods and messaging for Baby Boomers through Gen Z nurses, leveraging the strengths each generation brings while managing potential friction points, creating mentorship structures where senior and newer nurses learn from each other, and developing retention strategies tailored to different career stages and life priorities. Discover how successful nurse leaders are bridging generational gaps to build cohesive, high-performing teams where everyone feels valued.
9:45am – 10:15am
Networking & Refreshments Break
10:15am – 11:00am
Change Management Mastery: Understanding the Why, Communicating Effectively and Leading With Confidence
Nurses often feel overwhelmed by constant policy changes, yet change is inevitable in healthcare. Effective nurse leaders must guide their teams through transitions with confidence and clarity. This session breaks down the essential elements of successful change management including identifying factors driving change and articulating the business case frontline nurses understand, examining communication strategies that work across different channels and generations while building two-way dialogue, and developing approaches for improving your leadership agility so you can lead with certainty.
11:00am – 11:45am
Building Psychological Safety: Creating Cultures Where Nurses Speak Up
Psychological safety—where team members feel safe providing honest feedback without fear of punishment or humiliation—is fundamental to high-performing nursing units and essential for quality improvement and safety. Yet many nursing environments struggle with hierarchies, power dynamics and cultures that discourage speaking up. This session provides actionable strategies for building psychological safety including modeling vulnerability as a leader by admitting mistakes and uncertainties, responding non-defensively when nurses raise concerns or challenge decisions, actively soliciting diverse perspectives before finalizing plans, and separating person from performance when addressing issues. Learn how psychologically safe environments lead to better patient safety event reporting, increased innovation, reduced burnout and higher retention while discovering practical techniques for shifting ingrained cultural patterns.
11:45am – 12:30pm
Care Delivery Innovation: Redesigning How Nurses Deliver Care
Traditional nursing care models are evolving to meet changing patient needs, reimbursement pressures and workforce constraints. This session examines innovative approaches to care delivery that improve outcomes while enhancing nurse satisfaction:
- Nursing care models including team nursing, primary nursing and relationship-based care that optimize skill mix and strengthen patient-nurse relationships
- Technology-enabled care delivery through remote monitoring, virtual visits and digital health tools that extend nursing reach beyond traditional settings
- Nurse-led clinics, transitional care programs and expanded scope of practice initiatives that position nurses as primary care providers and care coordinators
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Luncheon
1:30pm – 2:15pm
Frontline AI Applications: Empowering Nurses With Technology at the Bedside
While leaders need AI strategy, frontline nurses need practical tools that make their work easier and safer. This session examines AI applications directly benefiting bedside nurses including ambient documentation technology that listens to patient interactions and auto-generates notes, smart IV pumps with dose error reduction systems and interoperability with medication administration records, early warning systems that predict patient deterioration and trigger rapid response, voice-activated clinical references and order entry that free nurses' hands during procedures, and AI-powered patient education tools that personalize discharge instructions based on health literacy and learning preferences. Discover how to select and implement frontline AI that nurses actually embrace rather than resist.
2:15pm – 3:15pm
Panel: Developing Future Nurse Leaders—Mentorship, Succession Planning and Career Pathways
Topics to be discussed will include:
- Identifying high-potential nurses early and providing stretch assignments that build leadership capabilities without overwhelming them
- Structuring formal mentorship programs that pair emerging leaders with experienced executives for guidance and career navigation
- Creating clear leadership development pathways from charge nurse through director levels with defined competencies and support at each stage
- Succession planning approaches that ensure leadership continuity and prevent talent loss when key leaders retire or leave
- Measuring the effectiveness of leadership development investments through retention, promotion rates and organizational culture indicators
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Networking & Refreshments Break
3:45pm – 4:30pm
The Nurse Leader as Strategic Influencer: Expanding Your Impact Beyond Clinical Operations
Today's most effective CNOs and nursing directors are recognized as indispensable strategic partners who shape organizational direction, not just nursing operations. How do you make this leap? This session reveals how nurse leaders are expanding their influence by developing business and financial acumen that allows them to speak the language of executives and boards, building relationships across departments to understand competing priorities and find collaboration opportunities, articulating nursing's value in terms of organizational goals like growth, margin and competitive positioning, and positioning themselves for executive roles through visibility, credibility and demonstrated strategic thinking. You'll discover practical tactics for getting invited to strategic planning discussions, contributing meaningfully to business decisions outside traditional nursing scope and becoming a trusted advisor to your CEO and board.
4:30pm – 5:15pm
Workforce Resilience: Practical Strategies for Recruitment, Retention and Professional Development
Workforce sustainability keeps nursing leaders awake at night, but some organizations are cracking the code. This session shares what's actually working to attract, keep and grow nursing talent including creative recruitment approaches beyond traditional job postings and sign-on bonuses, flexible staffing models that improve work-life integration without compromising coverage, career advancement pathways that give nurses reasons to stay and grow, meaningful recognition programs that celebrate contributions and build pride, and data-driven approaches to predicting and preventing burnout before nurses leave. You'll hear about programs producing measurable retention improvements and walk away with specific tactics you can adapt to your organization's unique challenges and culture.
5:15pm
End of Day One
7:15am – 8:00am
Networking Breakfast
8:00am – 8:15am
Chairperson's Remarks
8:15am – 9:00am
Financial Acumen for Nurse Leaders: Understanding Budgets, Productivity and Value
Many nurses enter leadership roles with limited financial training, yet budget management and productivity oversight are critical responsibilities. This session demystifies healthcare finance for nurse leaders by explaining key financial concepts including operating budgets, capital requests and variance analysis, productivity metrics like hours per patient day, skill mix and labor costs as a percentage of revenue, cost-benefit analysis frameworks for evaluating new programs or technology investments, and value-based payment models that are shifting how nursing services generate revenue. You'll gain confidence discussing financial performance with CFOs and developing business cases that secure funding for nursing priorities while learning to balance financial stewardship with clinical quality imperatives.
9:00am – 9:45am
Leading Through Crisis: Lessons from COVID-19 and Emergency Preparedness
Recent years tested nursing leadership like never before, revealing both strengths and gaps in crisis response capabilities. What separates leaders who successfully navigate emergencies from those who struggle? This session distills hard-won lessons about crisis leadership including maintaining clear, frequent communication when information is incomplete and changing rapidly, making rapid decisions with imperfect information while preserving staff trust, flexibly reallocating resources and restructuring workflows to meet urgent needs, supporting team resilience and preventing moral injury during sustained high-stress periods, and conducting after-action reviews that capture learnings for future preparedness. Whether facing pandemics, natural disasters, cyberattacks or other emergencies, these principles help nursing leaders guide their teams through the storm.
9:45am – 10:15am
Networking & Refreshments Break
10:15am – 11:00am
AI for Nurse Leaders: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Decision-Making
Artificial intelligence is no longer futuristic—it's here now and nurse leaders must understand how to leverage it effectively. This session focuses specifically on AI applications for leadership and management including predictive analytics for staffing that forecast census, acuity and optimal nurse deployment, AI-powered scheduling tools that balance preferences, requirements and budget constraints, clinical decision support that flags deteriorating patients and recommends interventions, natural language processing that analyzes documentation to identify quality issues or compliance gaps, and sentiment analysis tools that detect employee engagement concerns through survey responses and communications. Learn how to evaluate AI vendors, implement tools that truly solve problems, and ensure human judgment remains central even as technology augments decision-making.
11:00am – 11:45am
Hiring and Onboarding Excellence: Building Your Team From Day One
Your team's success starts with who you hire and how you integrate them. This session explores strategies for attracting top talent and setting new nurses up for success including structured interview techniques that assess both clinical competence and cultural fit, efficient credentialing and onboarding processes that get nurses working quickly while ensuring readiness, comprehensive orientation programs that build confidence and reduce early turnover, preceptor development and pairing strategies that create positive first impressions, and 30-60-90 day check-ins that identify and address concerns before new nurses decide to leave.
11:45am – 12:30pm
Staffing Guidelines and Evidence-Based Models: Right Nurse, Right Skills, Right Time
Staffing decisions directly impact patient outcomes, nurse satisfaction and financial performance, yet many leaders struggle with determining appropriate ratios and skill mix. This session examines evidence-based staffing frameworks including national guidelines and regulatory requirements for nurse-to-patient ratios by unit type and acuity level, flexible staffing models that adjust resources based on census, patient complexity and nurse competency, skill mix optimization balancing RNs, LPNs and unlicensed assistive personnel to maximize quality while controlling costs, and predictive analytics that forecast volume and acuity to enable proactive staffing adjustments. You'll learn how to use data to justify staffing requests, respond to budget pressures without compromising safety, and build transparent staffing processes that earn nurse trust.
12:30pm
Conference Concludes
12:45pm – 2:45pm
Workshop: Managing Difficult Conversations: Addressing Performance, Behavior and Conflict
Every nurse leader faces challenging situations with staff who underperform, display disruptive behavior or create team conflict. Avoiding these conversations only makes problems worse, yet many leaders lack confidence in their ability to address issues effectively. This session provides practical frameworks for difficult conversations including documenting performance issues with specific, objective examples that support corrective action, addressing unprofessional behavior, incivility and bullying while maintaining dignity, mediating conflicts between team members without taking sides or letting issues fester, conducting progressive discipline that gives employees opportunity to improve while protecting patients and staff, and knowing when coaching isn't enough and termination is necessary to preserve team dynamics and organizational culture.
From Hospitals/Health Systems/Long-Term Care Facilities
Chief Nursing Officers
Chief Nursing Executive
Chief Operating Officer
Patient Care
Patient Services
Nursing Directors
Nursing Administration
Clinical Operations
Patient Experience
Patient Engagement
Chief Nursing Information Officer
Telehealth Director
Operations Director
Staffing
Nurse Leaders
Nurse Manager
Medical Directors
Chief of Staff
ICU Nurse
Clinical Care
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5601 Universal Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32819
407-503-1000
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