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ONL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Leadership Lunch Series
ONL's Leadership Lunch Series is a unique professional learning opportunity for nurses at all levels and is specially designed to support learning across nursing teams. Offered virtually each spring and fall, the four-part series features nationally recognized thought leaders sharing diverse perspectives ranging from big-picture thinking to tactical, actionable strategies. During each of the four 90-minute online sessions, participants hear from a different member of our remarkable series faculty on a different topic; the series offers something for everyone at all levels of leadership. Plus, participants enjoy exceptional professional learning without sacrificing time in their busy schedules for travel and enjoy protected time to eat their lunch.
This program offers organizations a unique, cost-effective opportunity to invest in their teams. By enrolling in the Leadership Lunch Series, participating organizations provide timely and consistent educational content for nursing teams with contact hours available at an affordable price. Teams that participate together have found that dialogue and discussion emerges that supports team bonding, collaboration, and ideas to advance practice.
What Participants Can Expect
- Four 90-minute professional learning sessions (one per month) featuring nationally recognized faculty, delivered via Zoom
- Insights and inspiration from distinguished nursing leadership experts on a range of hot topics in nursing leadership
- Opportunities to spark dialogue and discussion within your nursing team that encourages collaboration, bonding, and ideas to advance practice
Who Should Participate
Program Details
- Organizations purchase access to the live, virtual series for their team.
- Individuals must then register to receive the meeting link and program evaluation.
- Attendees are eligible for 1.5 Contact Hours for each program, and 6.0 for attending the full series.
Program Pricing
- Up to 100 participants: $5,000
- Up to 50 participants: $4,000
- Up to 25 participants: $3,000
- Up to 10 participants: $2,000
Please contact us via email at [email protected] to enroll in the Leadership Lunch Series.
Fall 2025 Leadership Lunch Series Program Faculty and Session Descriptions
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Friday, September 19th, 2025, 12:00-1:30 PM
Building and Rebuilding Trust: Key Strategies for Nurse Leaders
Trust is foundational to human relationships and essential for the delivery of health care. Nurse leaders have a significant role in creating an environment of trust. This session will apply an evidence-based model of trust building to contemporary health care realities. Practical strategies for leaders will be highlighted. Read Dr. Rushton's article on this topic here.
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Cynda Rushton, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, FAAN
Dr. Cynda Rushton is the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics and Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics and Schools of Nursing & Medicine. She is an internationally recognized leader in nursing ethics, moral resilience, and workforce issues and a long-time contributor to ground-breaking work on these topics. She is also the editor and author of Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare and co-creator of the Rushton Moral Resilience Scale (RMRS).
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Friday, October 17th, 2025, 12:00-1:30 PM
Navigating a Leadership Career
Navigating a leadership journey requires personal reflection, a sense of goals and purpose, an open mind, and connections with trusted colleagues and mentors. In this interactive dialogue, Dr. Ena Williams, System Chief Nurse Executive for Yale New Haven Health and incoming President of AONL, will share key reflections on her leadership journey, lessons learned, and what keeps her connected to nursing and leadership.
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Ena Williams, PhD, MBA, RN, CENP
Dr. Ena Williams is Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) of Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) and is incoming President of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL). She has been a nurse at Yale New Haven Health for 23 years, where she began her career as a perioperative nurse, and has risen through the ranks to hold executive leadership roles, including Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) beginning in 2018. She was named to the role of System CNE in March, 2025.
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Friday, November 21st, 2025, 12:00-1:30 PM
When Science Failed Clinical Practice: A Tale of Culture Eating Patient Safety for Lunch
For 15 years, Quality Improvement (QI) studies supported the preventability of in-hospital newborn falls. Aggregate analysis reveals the study design, cultural influences, overlooked evidence, and data interpretation supported the proliferation of flawed science. This session will share lessons learned from this cautionary tale that carry broad implications for leaders conducting QI in all areas of clinical practice.
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Beth Duthie, PhD, RN, CPPS, FAAN
Dr. Elizabeth Duthie is trained as a Nurse Educator and a Cognitive Scientist using James Reason’s Human Error Theory as the theoretical framework for her Ph.D. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). Currently, she is the Director of Patient Safety at Montefiore Medical Center and Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her professional focus is on applying the science of patient safety into clinical practice. Her analysis of in-hospital newborn falls and the state of the science for preventability has been accepted for publication. The insights and lessons learned for applicability into the broader scientific community described in the paper will be presented in this session.
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Friday, December 19th, 12:00-1:30 PM
Leading With Love
This session will explore what it means to lead from the heart, develop deeper connections, and become an inspirational leader through work-life integration and being fully in the present. Showing up as loving leaders will instill hope to our workforce. After all, everyone deserves to experience us at our best.
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Sylvain "Syl" Trepanier, DNP, RN, CENP, FAONL, FAAN
Dr. Syl Trepanier is Providence's System Chief Nursing Officer, representing nursing practice for 38 thousand nurses in 52 hospitals and 1085 clinics in seven states. He also serves as the co-chair of the system's Workforce Council. Dr. Trepanier is a seasoned nurse executive with healthcare system experience in executive leadership, organizational transformation, and system standardization. He is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Science Center (TTUHSC) in the Masters in Nursing Administration program, and serves on the advisory board for the Institute of Human Caring, on the American Hospital Association's Clinical Leadership Committee, on the board of trustees for the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools, on the Audit & Risk Committee for the American Academy of Nursing, and on the board of OpusVi. He is also an elected AONL Board member representing Region 9.
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What Previous Leadership Lunch Series Participants Are Saying
- "I am so grateful that my organization supports these sessions. I look forward to learning and broadening my thinking during this hour and a half each month. Please keep offering this series!"
- "The Leadership Lunch Series is an excellent program! I appreciate the range of topics covered, the contact hours, and the convenient scheduling."
- "ONL is always at the forefront of what is relevant to nurse leaders. The Leadership Lunch Series is on point and makes the content accessible to so many members of my team."
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