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ONL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Winter Quarterly Meeting
ONL's Winter Quarterly Meetings offer nurse leaders at all levels an opportunity for rich professional learning while connecting face-to-face with fellow nurse leaders for collaboration and community.
WINTER 2025 QUARTERLY MEETING
Friday, December 12th, 2025, 8:30 AM - 2:45 PM
The Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, Framingham, Massachusetts
Program Overview
- ONL Business Meeting - Stay at the forefront with the latest updates from ONL
- Member Poster Presentations - Sharing the incredible work that is transforming nursing practice and patient care in our region. To submit a poster abstract for consideration, please click here.
- Keynote Speaker Dr. Tim Cunningham: Abundant Leadership: Finding New Ways Forward and Finding Florence: The Power of Your Story
- Community, connection, and celebration - Dedicated time for connection and fun with fellow nurse leaders from across the region
- Time with vendors - Learn about products and solutions that can support your nursing team and organization
Who Should Participate
Program Details
- Date: Friday, December 12th, 8:30 AM - 2:45 PM
- Location: The Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, Framingham, Mass.
- Registration fee: $275 per person
- How to register: Individuals may register online at www.oonl.org/winter-quarterly-meeting-2025. To register a group, please download our group registration form.
- Contact hours: Attendees will be eligible for 2.75 Contact Hours upon completing a program evaluation.
Call for Posters
All are invited to submit a poster presentation to share their recent projects, successful strategies, and professional knowledge with nurse leaders from across New England. This is a great opportunity to showcase and disseminate work from within your organization.
Abstracts may be submitted for posters in the following categories:
- Evidence-Based Practice Projects
- Innovation Projects
- Integrative Review
- Quality/ Performance Improvement Projects
- Research
Please be sure to read the full poster abstract guidelines for the category in which you plan to submit.
The deadline to submit an abstract is September 19th. Individual extensions may be granted. If you would like to submit an abstract but require more time, please email Ashley Waddell at [email protected] by EOD Sept. 19th.
Applicants will be notified October 8th-10th. Final abstracts and posters will be due November 7th.
Exhibitor Information
If you would like information about participating in our program as an exhibitor, please view our 2025-2026 Vendor Partner Prospectus.
Keynote Presentations: Tim Cunningham, DrPH, MSN, RN, FAAN
Abundant Leadership: Finding New Ways Forward
Without abundance, well-being cannot thrive, and there’s a business case for that. This session explores the differences between abundant mindset and scarcity mindset, using interactive activities to help consider ways to approach old problems with a “new mind" and to reap the benefits of wellbeing, emotionally, physically, and monetarily from a health-systems perspective. We’ll engage with one another using story-crafting and agility exercises to best understand the abundance we bring to our work.
Finding Florence: The Power of Your Story
Storytelling is a powerful leadership tool for inspiring others. By crafting and sharing compelling narratives, leaders can connect with their teams on an emotional level, build trust, and motivate them to action. This session will engage participants in storytelling practice, narrative medicine, and other experiential activities to help us see our colleagues, our patients, and our community through inspiring lenses.
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Tim Cunningham is Director of the Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics at the Task Force for Global Health, based in Atlanta, Georgia. He serves as Board President of Clowns Without Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to alleviating suffering through laughter. He works with interprofessional teams to promote systemic well-being for healthcare professionals, university staff, researchers, students, and communities, while leading research on the epidemiology of compassion. Tim’s professional journey began in the performing arts, including theater, clowning, dance, and acrobatics. After training at Dell’Arte International he performed internationally for nearly a decade as a professional actor. His experiences led him to join Clowns Without Borders in 2003.
A transformative experience working as a clown in a pediatric hospital in pre-earthquake Haiti inspired Tim to pursue nursing. He earned his Masters in Clinical Nurse Leadership from the University of Virginia in 2009 and worked as an emergency/trauma nurse at UVA Health, Children’s National Medical Center, and New York-Presbyterian. In 2016, he completed his Doctorate in Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Tim is former Vice President and Co-Chief Well-Being Officer for Emory Healthcare, where he built Emory’s inaugural office of wellness, focused on systematic change to support the mental, physical, and professional health of 35,000 employees.
Tim has co-authored three books on nurse self-care and well-being, plus a children’s book about resilience in the face of Ebola.
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