Learning about the rewards and challenges of being in an executive nursing leadership role is the focus of this course. Students will precept with an Executive Nurse Leader in a complex organization/system environment (community, clinic setting, hospital setting etc). Students will observe/learn strategies for working effectively within complex organizations/systems and for surviving and thriving as an executive leader. In this course students will evaluate how executive leaders manage the financial/business challenges within the organization, maintain executive presence in the organization, set and span organizational boundaries, manage their emotions, and effectively collaborate with other organizational leaders. The student will also learn how the organization deals with disruptive innovation, executes new strategies, establishes a culture of quality, and manages variation. Students will gather data for the business plan they will write as part of the Nursing 974 Seminar Course. This course is to be taken at the same time the student is taking Nursing 974 Seminar.