Nurse Executive: Strategic System Leadership
Webinar/Online
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 11:45am ET - Thursday, December 10, 2026 at 6:00pm ET
Info
Topic
System Leadership, Strategic thinking, Executive Presence
Credits Offered
This event offers 6.0 CNE credits to attendees.
Attachments
Additional Information
Nurse Executive Track
Financial Stewardship at the Executive Level
Nurse executives play a critical role in ensuring financial sustainability while advancing clinical excellence. This session focuses on executive-level financial stewardship, balancing margin, mission, and long-term organizational strategy.
Strategic Workforce Development & Redesign
Today’s workforce challenges require bold, system-level solutions. This session explores how nurse executives can lead workforce redesign efforts that strengthen capability, resilience, and future readiness.
Navigating Change With Clarity
Periods of transformation demand steady, transparent leadership. This session equips nurse executives to communicate vision, align stakeholders, and guide organizations through complexity with confidence.
Governance & Clinically Integrated Decision-Making
Strong governance connects strategy to frontline impact. This session examines how nurse executives partner across governance structures to enable clinically integrated, data-informed decision-making that drives outcomes.
Influence & Negotiation Across Boundaries
Executive leadership requires influence beyond formal authority. This session builds advanced negotiation and influence skills to navigate competing priorities, align interests, and achieve shared goals across organizational boundaries.
Executive Presence & Strategic Communication
How nurse executives show up matters as much as what they say. This session strengthens executive presence and strategic communication skills to inspire confidence, credibility, and trust at the enterprise level.
Recordings of sessions will be available in the event you can not attend during the scheduled Live session OR if you are just signing up for a series and a scheduled session has passed.
Speakers
Nurse leader generating positive disruption by empowering individuals at all levels through accessible leadership development and community
Crystal Lawson, DNP, RN, CENP is nationally known for her work in leadership development and expertise in brain based learning strategies that result in sustained behavior change. Dr. Crystal Lawson is an expert in nursing and leadership development at all levels, with extensive experience in the national leadership development space. She currently provides consultant services to equip, inspire, and empower leaders to generate positive disruption. Dr. Lawson served as the Senior Director for Nursing Leadership Development at Ascension, serving >60K nurses. Previously, she was the Education Director for the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), where she was responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of AONL’s educational programs and services for leadership development of nurses at all levels. Prior to AONL she worked at the University of Tennessee Medical Center where she held a variety of clinical and administrative roles, including clinical nurse, nurse manager and Director of Nursing Education and Professional Development. Crystal has also worked as a role player for developmental leadership for managers and executives from various industries in the public and private sectors. Crystal earned her DNP from the University of Tennessee, focusing on transition from expert clinician to the nurse manager role. She holds the Certified in Executive Nursing Practice from AONL. Crystal currently resides part time in Knoxville, TN and Los Angeles.