Human-Centered Leadership in Healthcare

Susan P. Campis began her nursing career as an ICU nurse and worked at the bedside for many years prior to accepting a formal leadership role. Her leadership roles have included nurse manager, director, and executive director. Her MSN degree focuses on leadership and management in nursing and she is board certified as a nurse executive. Susan is a nurse leader who has a passion for coaching and mentoring others. Her goal as a nurse leader is to create successful nursing teams by creating a safe and healthy work environment where the team can excel and perform at their best to ensure quality care and patient safety. She, along with her uLeadership colleagues, have published several articles in peer reviewed nursing leadership journals. Susan resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kay Kennedy is passionate about cultivating nurse leaders. She has a DNP in Executive Leadership from MGH Institute for Health Professions and is board certified as an advanced nurse executive and a certified professional in healthcare quality. She has held multiple leadership positions, including the position of Chief Nursing Officer and VP of Patient Care Services. Kay has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on Human-Centered Leadership in Healthcare and currently teaches at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta where she lives with her husband.

Lucy Leclerc is a nurse executive, entrepreneur, and assistant professor of nursing at Kennesaw State University where she teaches leadership, professionalism, and ethics. Lucy is a lifelong learner receiving her undergraduate nursing degree and PhD from Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Lucy's research focuses on nursing leadership in practice and in academia. She serves on the Editorial board of the Journal of Nursing Education and has published research in many peer-reviewed journals. She seeks to reveal what already exists within nurse leaders and nursing teams: excellence and professionalism. Lucy resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Telling stories as a radio host, then as a costumed tour guide, Sara Sheckells followed a career path into academia before her love of the literary pulled her back to the mic. Sara's narration style has been described as sophisticated, smooth, and smart. Her knowledge of higher education, adolescence, and career development informs her narrations in multiple genres, including literary fiction, memoirs, self-development, and women's fiction. A New England native, Sara lives north of Boston with her family, including a supportive spouse, two brilliantly brained kiddos, and a boisterous boxer dog.