NLN Announces Nurse & Nurse Educator Selections for the 2024 LEAD Program

NLN Announces Nurse & Nurse Educator Selections for the 2024 LEAD Program

Professional Development Program Highlights Individualized Executive Coaching & Improved Leadership Skills

Washington, DC — The National League for Nursing proudly announces the selection, through competitive application, of 24 nurse educators and nurses in practice as a member of the 2024 NLN LEAD, a  highly selective program of the NLN Leadership Institute in the NLN Center for Transformational Leadership.   

LEAD, founded in 2011, is designed for nurses in education and practice who have recently been challenged with rapid transition into leadership positions, those already in positions of leadership who want formal leadership development, and others who identify as emerging leaders or have leadership aspirations.

This yearlong program represents a significant investment in professional leadership development with participants spending a calendar year engaged in activities to identify personal and professional goals, learning about what makes an effective leader, and strategizing how to retool skill sets and experiences to achieve individual and institutional benchmarks.

To that end, everyone receives intensive one-on-one executive coaching. In addition, they attend virtual group coaching sessions, a retreat, and leadership webinars, where they study leadership theory and practices that includes case study.

LEAD held the first meeting, an in-person orientation, on February 12-13 at League headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Intensive Leadership Retreat is currently scheduled for June 23-26 at the same location. The group will later reconvene at the NLN Education Summit—A Daring Proposition: Competency-Based Education, September 18-20 in San Antonio, Texas. 

“Nurses have been increasingly visible in the transformation of the nation’s health care access and delivery, so it is vital that they have the necessary leadership skills to bring about meaningful, sustainable change,” said NLN Chair Patricia Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, Dean and Strawbridge Professor at the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions at Ursuline College in Ohio. “The National League for Nursing, the leading voice of nursing education, has invested in resources and scholarship to provide this cutting-edge professional development.”

“The National League for Nursing LEAD program is among the most highly respected leadership development initiatives in the field of nursing education,” said NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN. “My congratulations to Dr. Janice Brewington and her outstanding team. This will be another year of rewarding and productive achievement, helping to boost the personal and professional standing of this exclusive cohort chosen for 2024 LEAD.”

Dr. Janice Brewington, NLN chief program officer and director of the NLN Center for Transformational Leadership, oversees LEAD, with support from Dr. Inez Tuck and Dr. Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, consultants to the League.  

More information about the LEAD program can be found at NLN.org.

 

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