How nurse leaders can partner with Advisory Board

Learn how nursing leaders can leverage Advisory Board's research and products in the year ahead.

With Advisory Board research, nurse leaders can…

Understand the market forces driving your executive team’s decision-making so you can influence the strategy and contextualize the role of nursing.

Articulate to your team how nursing fits into the organization’s strategy so you can engage your workforce with compelling shared language.

Elevate your leadership capabilities and develop the next generation of nursing leaders so nursing always has a seat at the executive table.

Build a flexible and adaptable care team so you can successfully operate in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Current Research Agenda

Last updated June 2025.


By the numbers

1,200+
Nursing leaders that use Advisory Board resources
3,400+
Number of organizations using our nursing research
75
Net Promoter Score for our 2024 workforce events

Our recent research


Presentations and workshops

Whether you're looking for topical presentations or dedicated focus on a challenge or initiative, our expert support gives you access to healthcare experts in different ways to match your time and needs. Learn more.

Examine your team
  • Broaden your definition of the nursing care team | Presentation
    In this session, we’ll unpack the challenges of traditional, RN-heavy care delivery models — including how those challenges are exacerbated by both a nurse shortage and less-experienced RN workforce — and uncover actionable ideas to make change. We’ll also delve into what it could look like to fully integrate technology into the nursing workforce.

Elevate your leadership capabilities
  • Mind the gap: Building enterprise leadership capacity to thrive in complexity | Presentation
    Explore why traditional leadership practices are no longer enough in today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous operating environment. You'll learn about the leadership shifts required to increase enterprise leadership capacity based on our 20 years of working with over 3,000 leaders across the healthcare industry.

  • Bedside nursing reimagined: How to appeal to the next generation | Workshop
    Evaluate options for ensuring that nursing roles can meet the needs of the organization while also meeting the needs of the nurses themselves, and in doing so, make the bedside a better place to build a career.

Understand the broader industry and trends shaping your strategy
  • State of the healthcare industry | Presentation
    Discuss the market forces leaders should watch and the strategic bets to navigate the industry’s future structure.

  • Building the ambulatory network of the future | Presentation
    As care delivery evolves across diverse sites of care, providers and their partners are planning their future ambulatory footprints. Progressive organizations will need to clearly define their goals and map the required capabilities and services to their future design. This session will review varied ambulatory network models that contribute to new market ambitions while enhancing patient care.

  • Navigating AI in healthcare | Presentation
    Equip your leaders with an understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), the potential benefits these technologies offer, the unique challenges AI presents in healthcare, and how organizations, leaders, and teams should respond to AI today.


Events and webinars

2025 summit series

Reimagine healthcare: 3 transformation imperatives

The healthcare industry is facing a transformative moment. As leaders, it’s up to you to shape how your organizations approach investment and partnership decisions, care delivery, and technology. Being intentional about these will ensure a viable, efficient, and patient-centered healthcare ecosystem.

For this summit series, Advisory Board will bring together executive teams from across the industry in four exciting destinations. You will be equipped with pertinent insights and action steps to take back home.

Topics include:

  • Adapt to new market dynamics
  • Build tomorrow’s care model today
  • Embrace digital competencies

Browse the full agenda, learn more, and register.

Dates and locations
  • October 7-8 | Chicago, IL
  • November 18-19 | Nashville, TN
  • December 9-10 | Virtual
2025 roundtables
  • How to thrive in an evolving nursing landscape | August 18-19 | Washington, D.C.
  • How to deliver the next era of VBC | October 15-16 | Washington, D.C.

Learn more or register

2025 webinars

Join one of our 70+ annual webinars to learn about the latest healthcare industry trends and topics.

  • Broaden your definition of the nursing care team
  • Leadership development webinar series
  • The 10 major trends impacting health systems in 2025
  • 2025 specialty care market trends series: Oncology, cardiovascular, infusion, women’s health, and more
  • AI in healthcare
  • The state of the industry heading into 2026

Learn more or register


Leadership building through Advisory Board Fellowship

Nurse leaders represent one of the fastest growing segments of participants in our Advisory Board Fellowship program as organizations move urgently to better support these critical leaders.

Nurse executives face some of the most complex challenges — from caring for and leading the largest (and most beleaguered) segment of our workforce, to leading enterprise change and transformation. The past year has amplified these challenges, requiring nurse leaders to demonstrate greater emotional intelligence, resilience, adaptability, and agility than ever before.

Nursing leaders need to continuously navigate and lead through the complexity of shifting care team dynamics amidst technological advances (such as AI) and cost containment pressure. They lead not only the largest part of the workforce, but by extension the most expensive, which makes it all the more important for them to take into account internal and external market dynamics as they consider how to attract, retain, and deploy that talent across their health systems.

Organizations rely on Advisory Board Fellowship to help nurse executives:

  • Better care for a burned-out workforce and help them be more resilient
  • Take on enterprise-level executive roles beyond nursing.

Nurse executives who have completed Advisory Board Fellowship have gone on to COO and CEO roles in their organizations.

Upcoming Cohorts

Fall 2025 Launch

September 10-12 | Washington, D.C.


Custom research

Gain a competitive edge by partnering with Advisory Board researchers to deliver specific answers to your most pressing questions. Our custom research offering brings together our proven research methodology, industry expertise, and a deep understanding of your organization, equipping you with the tools and insights needed to refine your strategies and make informed decisions.

Custom research scoped to your specific need

We design custom research engagements using a variety of our capabilities to ensure the insights and tools we provide help you act on your top priorities. Sample capabilities include:

  • Qualitative interviews to uncover how leading organizations and your competitors are approaching their top strategies.
  • Quantitative surveys to bring you the numbers that illuminate key trends externally or internally to your organization.
  • Custom benchmarking to compare yourself to peer organizations and identify top strengths and improvement opportunities.
  • Customer insights to improve your market penetration and customer experience.
Opportunities for your organization in 2025
  • Customized best-practice research to drive organizational performance assessments and needs diagnoses.
  • Cheat sheets and discussion guides to facilitate productive conversations on issues your customers care about most.
  • Stakeholder insight analyses giving you a deeper understanding of your key stakeholders, their priorities, challenges, and decision drivers.
  • Custom growth driver assessments that pair qualitative and quantitative insights to identify the market forces that influence demand for particular services and offerings.

Our products and services

Research Membership

Data-driven, actionable insights to inform decisions

  • Learn from more than 200 Advisory Board experts
  • Access over 300 new research deliverables each year
  • Leverage our forecasting tools to support strategic planning

Custom Research

Insight-driven answers and tailored guidance

  • Get actionable insights, contextualized to your organization's challenges and priorities
  • Inform your strategy with top emerging market and industry trends
  • Request extensive research across topics that span the entire healthcare ecosystem

Advisory Board Events

Opportunities to network, learn, and grow your expertise

  • Experience agendas aligned to your team's greatest challenges
  • Tackle market challenges by collaborating with cross-sector research experts
  • Connect and network with leading healthcare decision-makers

Expert Support

Expert advice and actionable guidance for healthcare executives

  • Host insightful presentations for your teams or customers across relevant topics
  • Get individualized support from our experts
  • Overcome hurdles and energize stalled projects with workshops led by our experts

Advisory Board Fellowship

Enterprise Leadership solution to equip leaders to thrive in complexity

  • Implement strategic leadership shifts proven to drive business outcomes more effectively
  • Get support on critical priorities from diverse industry peers and executive coaches
  • Expand personal and team capacity to address persistent challenges

Sponsorship

Opportunities to showcase your brand, product, and expertise

  • Leverage our tools, tactics, and distribution channels to engage target audiences
  • Grow your brand awareness
  • Generate leads for your organization

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