Developing the Leader Within
Webinar Overview
Join this webinar to hear from national leadership expert Dr. Rose Sherman as she explores developing your leadership capabilities. Leadership is part of any role whether you are an educator, administrator or nurse scientist. During this seminar, Dr. Sherman will focus on how you can better manage yourself as a leader, strategies to hone your leadership skills, and the need to develop your professional brand to move your work forward in a noisy world.
Objectives:
- Describe how to better manage yourself as a leader through personal mastery.
- Identify strategies that can be used by graduate students to hone their leadership skills.
- Explain why every nurse who wants his/her work to gain visibility needs a strong professional brand.
This Webinar is hosted by the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA). For more information on the GNSA, visit www.aacnnursing.org/GNSA.
Speaker

Professor & Director of the Nursing Leadership Institute
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Rose Sherman is a tenured Professor in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. She also serves as the Graduate Coordinator for the Nursing Administration Master’s Program, and Director of the Nursing Leadership Institute. Dr. Sherman received a BA in Political Science and BSN in Nursing from the University of Florida. Her Master’s Degree in Nursing is from the Catholic University of America and she has a doctorate in nursing leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. Prior to joining the faculty at FAU in 2002, she had a twenty-five year nursing leadership career with the Department of Veterans Affairs at five VA Medical Centers.
Dr. Sherman has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed articles and 8 books chapters on nursing leadership topics. She has received 2.7 million dollars in extramural training and research grants to support her work in the development of current and future nurse leaders. She was named Nurse Research of the Year in 2018 by the American Organization of Nurse Executives.
Dr. Sherman is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship Program and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the ANA Nursing Leadership Institute and is on the Beryl Institute Senior Nursing Advisory Board. She is author of a popular leadership blog www.emergingrnleader.com designed for emerging nurse leaders and is Editor in Chief of AONE’s journal Nurse Leader. Her first book, The Nurse Leader Coach: Become the Boss No One Wants to Leave will be published in January 2019.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits:

Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.