Speaking & Workshops · For nurse leaders and healthcare leaders
Often, the missing piece isn’t courage. It’s craft.
Nurse leaders translate all day, carrying executive priorities to the frontline and frontline realities back up. When that translation breaks down, initiatives stall and people go quiet. The craft is knowing what each listener needs to hear first, and saying it in a way that moves them. These sessions build that skill, and the confidence to use it, so leaders’ priorities land and their people feel heard.
The same root skill works whether you’re talking to an executive or your own team, applied to the issue in front of you.
Executives, boards, policymakers
Carry frontline expertise into the rooms where resources and policy are decided.
Where leaders apply it
The result: asks that get acted on, and nursing’s voice in the decisions that shape care.
Frontline nurses and care teams
Trade directives for influence, engaging your team in work they help shape around a shared purpose.
Where leaders apply it
The result: progress on what you’re measured on, from quality and safety to patient experience and retention.
The foundation underneath the root skill, starting with one question: what is your voice doing in the room? Story-driven and interactive, with a musician’s ear, it leaves quiet and loud voices alike knowing what theirs is for.
Built around practice, not lecture. Leaders learn the root skill, then rehearse the real conversation on their own issue, up the chain and down to the point of care, and leave with a structure they can use on their next shift.
Virtual sessions are designed for the format from the start, not lifted from an in-person agenda. For health systems, the 30-day Huddle Sprint and 90-day Nurse Leader Communication Accelerator run as cohort programs. Details on request.
In one 90-minute session on a mandated initiative, 30 skeptical nurse leaders went from “we don’t have time” to “I wish I’d had this language weeks ago.”
The initiative didn’t change. The conversation did.
“Britt understands that you don’t create engagement (or fix retention) by adding one more thing to an overwhelmed manager’s plate. You help leaders leverage their expertise and get more out of the conversations they’re already having.”
“Britt was engaging and dynamic in her presentation. I truly enjoyed her perspective on the importance of nurse retention and ways to improve it as a nurse leader.”
I help nurse leaders turn the conversations they’re already having into a reason their people stay.
ER nurse in Level I trauma centers and former VP of Marketing at a broadcast technology company. That combination is the lens Britt DiNatale brings to nursing associations, health systems, and schools of nursing: leaders who know exactly what needs to change but have never been shown how to say it in a way that gets heard.
She has led national programs at the American Nurses Association, is published in Nurse Leader and American Nurse, serves on ANA’s National Workplace Violence Prevention Committee, and writes Still Showing Up, a newsletter for nurse leaders.
Where she speaks: health systems nationwide, regional and state nurse leader associations, national nursing conferences, global forums, healthcare innovation events, and nursing leadership podcasts.
