Former Commissioning Chief Nursing Officer for the King Fahd National Children's Cancer and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A highly educated and skilled healthcare executive with international and national Operational/Senior Management experience and knowledge offering successful and successive leadership positions in diverse healthcare environments. Possessing a strong executive presence, superb decision making skills, exceptional presentation and communication skills, mentoring and developing staff/managers, with significant financial acumen as a seasoned professional. Exceptional organizational and analytical skills. An established ability to effectively interact with medical staff, senior leadership, management, point-of-care staff, patients and families as well as leaders in and outside the global scope of healthcare and the community. A proven energetic, creative, innovative, and motivated leader that brings measurable value and outcomes to a thriving organization or system.
Successful consultation, lecturing and speaking to over 45 countries on:
• Fostering healthy organizational change
• Internationally commissioning new hospitals
• Promotion of visionary and innovative leadership
• Staff education in a multicultural environment
• Leadership development and empowerment
• Mentoring and succession planning program,
• Nursing informatics in critical care
• Pediatric oncology centers
• International networking for professional nursing practice/best-practice
Secretary, Sigma Theta Tau International, 2021-2025
President, 2014-2016; 2019-2023 Beta Psi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International, Oregon
Nursing Knowledge International (NKI-STTI) Board of Directors, 2013-2016