Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Nursing Leadership Style

This webinar specifically focuses on graduate nursing education. Emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership style are noteworthy predictors of nursing management success. Leadership styles (such as transactional, translational and laissez-faire) will be discussed in relation to their effectiveness and correlation to EI based on the recent literature. Attributes of successful nursing leaders/managers and strategies to include EI and leadership style in graduate nursing curriculum will be shared.

NOTE: This webinar is open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff and students. 

Webinar Speakers

Janet Reilly, DNP, RN
Associate Professor
Chair of MSN Leadership and Management in Health Systems
Professional Program in Nursing
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Janet Reilly is an Associate Professor and Chair of the graduate nursing program in Leadership and Management in Health Systems at the University of Wisconsin on the Green Bay campus. Dr. Reilly received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a teaching and management focus from Case Western Reserve University, Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland, OH in 2007. She teaches graduate leadership and management practicum courses. In addition to academia, Dr. Reilly practices in urgent and ambulatory care as a nationally certified nurse practitioner/prescriber and is an active member on the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing (CGEAN) Research Committee. She co-authored recent research on emotional intelligence and nursing leadership styles with Dr. Tyczkowski and colleagues.

Brenda Tyczkowski, DNP, RN
Assistant Professor
Director of Health Information Management and Technology
Professional Program in Nursing
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Brenda Tyczkowski is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Health Information Management and Technology program at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. In 2011 Dr. Tyczkowski received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Kansas with an emphasis on organizational leadership. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership and management and informatics, bringing decades of nursing leadership experience in practice to her teaching. Previous to academia, she held positions as a state nursing consultant, assistant regional field operations director, director of informatics training and implementation, and the director of nursing at a long term care facility. Dr. Tyczkowski is an active member or the American Nurses Association, and is past vice president of the local Sigma That Tau chapter (Kappa Pi). As principal investigator, she led a recent study on emotional intelligence and nursing leadership styles in nurse managers from six Midwestern health systems.