Nursing Leadership Thought Leaders
Learn from some of the top nursing leaders in the health care world.
2024 AONL Thought Leaders
Creating a Safe, Healing Environment for All
Mary Beth Kingston, PhD, RN, FAAN
Learn from AONL’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Mary Beth Kingston, as she shares her passion for nursing leadership, key factors that influenced her leadership journey and her work to address violence in health care settings.
2023 AONL Thought Leaders
The Future of Nursing; The Crux of Innovation Within Hospitals.
Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Sharon Pappas discusses the future of nursing and the unique ability that nurse leaders have to adapt to the many challenges and complexities in health care. Grounded in compassion and relational tendency, nurse leaders are the crux of innovation within hospitals.
2022 AONL Thought Leaders
Challenges in the Workforce
Maureen Swick, RN, MSN, PhD, NEA-BC
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Maureen Swick discusses how nurse leaders can come together, despite their differences, to overcome challenges in the workforce and strategies for up-and-coming nurse leaders to address issues.
Navigating the Pandemic
Mary Ann Fuchs, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Mary Ann Fuchs discusses what she learned as AONL President during the COVID-19 pandemic, how to remain energetic through tough times and keeping her passion alive for nursing.
2019 AONL Thought Leaders
Resilience in Nursing
Gail Latimer, MSN, RN, FAAN
Learn from 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Gail Latimer about her nursing leadership journey from the bedside to the CEO’s office to consulting and beyond.
Big Data and Why it Needs Nurses
Roy Simpson, DNP, RN, CMAC, FAAN
Tap into the knowledge and experience of top thought leader Roy Simpson as he discusses his passion for nursing leadership. Gain ideas and perspective from this influential nurse leader.
2018 AONL Thought Leaders
Courage: An Essential Element of Leadership
Linda Quinn Everett, PhD, RN, FAAN
Tap into the experience and knowledge of 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Linda Q. Everett as she discusses her passion as a nurse leader followed by dialogue with the audience. Join the conversation and walk away with ideas and perspective from this influential nurse leader.
Creating Your Own Evidence-Based Practice
Margaret L. McClure, EdD, RN, FAAN
Listen and learn from AONE past president and top thought leader, Margaret (Maggie) McClure as she discusses her passion as a nurse leader followed by dialogue with the audience. Join the conversation and walk away with ideas and perspective from this top nursing thought leader.
2017 AONL Thought Leaders
Legacy, Conversations and the Idea of Influence
Pam Thompson MS, RN, CENP, FAAN, CEO emeritus AONL
Learn from Pam Thompson, AONL chief executive officer emeritus. Pam communicates how nursing leadership has influenced and changed the health care field.
50 years of Nursing Leadership
50th Anniversary Thought Leader Panel
Join past and present leaders of as they discuss how nursing leadership has grown over the past 50 years. Learn about the history of AONL and how it has grown as an organization.
2016 AONL Thought Leaders
Nursing Management: Why It’s a Special Specialty
Kathy Sanford, DBA, RN, FACHE, FAAN
Learn from one of AONL's top thought leaders, Kathy Sanford, as she discusses her passion for nursing leadership. Sanford is a known leader in the nursing community and 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
Lifelong Learning: Choice or Mandate
Linda Everett, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Tap into the experience and knowledge of one of AONL's top thought leaders, Linda Q. Everett as she discusses her career as a nurse leader and walk away with ideas and perspective from Dr. Everett, a past AONL president.
2015 AONL Thought Leaders
Exceptional Leadership and Care Management
Kathleen Bower, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Grasp knowledge and learn from one of AONL's top thought leaders Kathleen Bower, as she discusses her passion for nursing leadership. Learn about the link between leadership and care management.
Innovating Practice for the Age of Reform
Tim Porter O'Grady
Learn from Tim Porter O'Grady as he shares over 40 years of health care knowledge. Tim Porter O'Grady is noted for his work on shared governance models, clinical leadership, conflict, innovation, complex systems, and health futures.
2014 AONL Thought Leaders
Gift to the World: Human Caring Leadership
Linda Burnes Bolton, DrPH, RN, FAAN
Learn from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center director of Nursing Research, Linda Burnes Bolton. Her research, teaching, and clinical expertise includes: nursing and patient care outcomes, performance improvement, quality care and cultural diversity within the health professions.
Sixty Years of Nursing Research
Marlene Kramer, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN
Listen to AONL Foundation Research award winner, Marlene Kramer as she talks about the characteristics of the nursing "Job". Kramer discusses what she has learned from her 60 years of nursing and health care research.
2013 AONL Thought Leaders
Vision for Successful Leadership
Colleen Goode, PhD, RN, FAAN, NEW-BC
2011 AONE Lifetime Achievement winner, Colleen Goode, teaches the audience how to become a successful leader and explains her vision for the future of nursing leadership.