Preparing nurses to work as strategic executive leaders in complex organizations and systems in both community and inpatient/outpatient healthcare settings is the focus of this course. Leading in today's healthcare environment brings challenges that require new and adaptable skill sets. Students will learn strategies for working effectively within varied healthcare environments and for surviving and thriving as an executive leader both at the organizational and systems level. In this course students will focus on topics that are essential for today's executive nursing leader, to include executive presence, power of emotions, disruptive innovation, strategy execution, financial savvy & business skills, effective organizational collaborations, boundary spanning, a culture of quality, managing variation, and managing healthcare environment challenges (ie; legal, financial, human resources, etc). As the final outcome in this course, students will develop a business plan related to a corporate systems level innovation within a multi-organization system.