• Patient-Centeredness
• Teamwork
• Excellence

• Develop and lead the system-wide nursing strategic plan, aligned with enterprise strategy and CEO priorities.
• Serve as the authoritative voice for nursing at the executive team and board level, translating nursing performance into enterprise impact.
• Provide executive oversight and accountability for hospital CNOs, ensuring alignment, consistency, and high performance across all system clinics and hospitals.
• Function as both visible and present on the units and deeply involved in high level strategy discussions.

• Lead nursing’s enterprise role in quality, patient safety, and experience, with accountability for outcomes and performance improvement.
• Ensure adoption of standardized, evidence-based nursing practices across the system.
• Partner with executive and physician leadership to achieve top-tier performance in regulatory compliance, accreditation, and public reporting.

• Own the enterprise nursing workforce strategy, including recruitment, retention, engagement, and succession planning.
• Address workforce sustainability through innovative staffing models, role optimization, and workforce well-being initiatives.
• Develop current and future nursing leaders capable of leading in a complex, rapidly changing healthcare environment.

• Establish and sustain a system professional practice model, including shared governance and clinical advancement pathways.
• Advance nursing education, research, and academic partnerships to strengthen professional growth and innovation.
• Lead nursing excellence initiatives (e.g., Magnet®, Pathway to Excellence®, or equivalent), as aligned with system strategy.

Financial Stewardship & Operational Performance

• Partner with the CEO, CFO, and operational leaders to ensure fiscally responsible nursing care delivery.
• Oversee labor management, productivity, and care model optimization while maintaining quality and workforce engagement.
• Drive standardization and operational discipline across hospitals to reduce unwarranted variation and improve value.

• •Provide executive sponsorship for nursing informatics and digital transformation, ensuring technology enables safe, efficient care.
• •Champion innovation in care delivery models, including virtual care, AI-enabled workflows, and new nursing roles.
• Ensure nursing leadership is embedded in enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Collaborate closely with the CEO and executive leadership team.
• Build strong partnerships with physician and interdisciplinary leaders to align clinical strategy and operations.
• Serve as a visible, credible leader during periods of growth, integration, or system transformation.

• A seasoned nursing executive with a minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible leadership experience in complex healthcare organizations, including senior or system level accountability for nursing practice, operations, and workforce strategy across multiple care settings.
• Demonstrated success leading nursing services within a multi hospital health system, integrated delivery network, or academically affiliated organization, with the ability to navigate the clinical, operational, and workforce demands of regional and rural healthcare environments.
• Demonstrated familiarity with Magnet® Recognition Program or Pathway to Excellence® principles and professional practice frameworks is preferred.
• Proven track record of advancing nursing quality, patient safety, and patient experience outcomes, including consistent improvement in nursing sensitive indicators and establishment of a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated expertise in evidence based nursing practice, professional practice governance, and performance improvement methodologies, with experience supporting regulatory compliance and organizational readiness for accreditation and external review.
• Recognized ability to build, lead, and sustain an engaged nursing workforce, with measurable success improving nurse engagement, retention, and resilience in competitive labor markets and periods of organizational change.
• Experience designing, implementing, and scaling innovative models of care that enable nurses to practice at the top of their license, support interdisciplinary collaboration, improve access, and align with evolving patient, provider, and financial needs.
• Strong commitment to talent development and succession planning, with a demonstrated history of mentoring and developing high performing nursing leaders and building a deep, diverse leadership bench across the enterprise.
• Demonstrated financial and operational acumen, including direct responsibility for nursing labor management, productivity, budget performance, and alignment of staffing models with patient acuity and organizational priorities.
• Proven ability to balance fiscal stewardship with strategic investment in people, technology, and care delivery transformation, translating nursing strategy into measurable clinical, workforce, and financial outcomes.
• Highly relational, values driven leader with impeccable integrity, sound judgment, and a servant leadership orientation, recognized for being visible, approachable, and credible with frontline caregivers.
• Trusted partner to physicians, executive leaders, and governing bodies, with a collaborative leadership style and the ability to influence across disciplines and geographies without reliance on authority.
• An effective executive communicator who can clearly articulate nursing strategy, performance, risk, and opportunity to the CEO, Board, and broader organizational stakeholders, fostering alignment and shared accountability across the system.
• A charismatic and energetic leader who is able to continually problem-solve in a challenging care environment on behalf of patients and the community.
• Sophisticated and knowledgeable about unions is preferred.

Education

• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse licensure, with eligibility for licensure in states served by Guthrie, and a master’s degree in nursing or a related healthcare discipline required; doctorate (PhD or DNP) preferred.
• Active nursing leadership certification (ex. NEA-BC, FAAN) reflecting sustained professional excellence, credibility, and commitment to contemporary nursing practice and executive leadership preferred.

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Korn Ferry shall provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified candidates, and will refer candidates without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected basis. Artificial Intelligence tools may be used in connection with the recruitment process for this position.