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AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership presents a new practical resource to help you lead your team with confidence: Leader Exchange. Through a series of live panel webinars on timely topics critical to your success, you’ll hear strategies and tactics directly from your peers that get to the heart of the matter.
Listen In & Be Inspired
Leader Exchange brings you:
- Facilitated discussions with panelists representing a strong mix of facility types, sizes, and locations
- Pressing, current topics that matter most to leaders in our ever-changing landscape
- New ideas and strategies that have worked for your peers
- Sharing of practical tips and advice from those who understand your complex role and are facing similar challenges
- Networking and a safe space to ask questions and receive real-time feedback
Registration Information
- Read more about each event and the panelists, then save your seat
- Registration is open to AORN members and non-members
Save Your Seat
Register now to mark your calendar and share the date with other leaders you work with. Check back often, new sessions are announced regularly.
On-Demand Library
Missed a session? Catch up here by watching on-demand. Some sessions are available exclusively to AORN Leader Members in the Leader Webinar Library.
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| Leader Exchange: Developing Leaders of Tomorrow This panel explores how structured career pathways, mentorship, and cross-training can help perioperative and sterile processing teams build future leaders, strengthen engagement, and improve retention and patient outcomes. Sponsored by Stryker | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Successful Creation of a Smoke Management Program This panel will focus on how nurse leaders can create and implement successful smoke management programs in their facilities. Sponsored by CONMED | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Expanding Robotic Surgery Access, Utilization, & Growth This session features hospital leaders sharing strategies and lessons on achieving program growth and operational excellence through collaboration, resourcefulness, and a focus on patient-centered outcomes. Sponsored by Intuitive | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Successful Creation of a Smoke Management Program This panel will focus on how nurse leaders can create and implement successful smoke management programs in their facilities. Sponsored by CONMED | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Bridging Perioperative Care and C-Suite Decision-Making Join a panel of multi-level leaders as they discuss creating a unified environment while making impactful decisions regarding operational and clinical goals. They’ll share how they’ve seen positive impacts on surgical outcomes and strategic initiatives through their partnership. Sponsored by Intuitive | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Transforming Perioperative Staffing Practices This webinar explores how a hospital improved perioperative staffing by shifting from manual scheduling to a data-driven approach. Leaders will share insights on engaging staff, overcoming challenges, and the positive impact on workflow and morale. Sponsored by LeanTaaS | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Fostering Nurse Wellbeing & Care Team Culture Perioperative nurses and care teams face many unique challenges that deserve more awareness and action. This panel showcases three industry leaders for an interactive discussion about the causes and consequences of cognitive overload, moral injury, incivility and more. Sponsored by Stryker | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Using AI for Staff Optimization and Team Satisfaction OR staffing is challenging due to fluctuating volumes and manual processes, but AI-driven analytics and real-time data can optimize workforce planning, boosting efficiency, cost control, and staff satisfaction. Listen in to explore actionable strategies and solutions. Sponsored by LeanTaaS | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Building a Stronger Pipeline of Nurses Explore how to cultivate a steady stream of new nurses through community-focused programs. Gain tips from leaders involved in successful programs and consider similar strategies for your organization. Sponsored by Stryker | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Adoption of New Technology in the Operating Room Learn first-hand tips from a panel of perioperative leaders who share how they assess current equipment needs, evaluate new OR technology, and approach a business case that leads to successful adoption of new technology. Sponsored by Stryker | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: A Team Approach to Optimizing Your Operating Room Join a multi-disciplinary panel as they discuss optimizing the OR through strategic alignment, infrastructure, staffing, and data utilization to enhance efficiency, safety, and performance. Sponsored by Intuitive | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Strategies to Address Staffing & Culture in the OR Listen in while panelists share their experiences in fostering a growth mindset culture in their operating rooms, and how their efforts have returned positive improvements in staffing, adopting new technology, and overcoming communication gaps. Sponsored by Intuitive | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Succession Planning & Attracting Nurses to Leadership As you think about the future state of your facility and department, succession planning for yourself and key managers on your team should be crossing your mind. See how this group of periop leaders have passionately pursued mentoring the next generation of emerging talent as they plan for what’s next. | Watch Now
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| Leader Exchange: Motivating and Engaging the Youngest Generation at Work Start understanding the root of the communication preferences, trends, and mindset of Gen Z staff members to inform your management style and tactics. You'll gain a fresh appreciation for this generation and practical strategies to implement. | Watch Now
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| Leader Exchange: Navigating a Multigenerational Workforce Generational differences can significantly impact workplace dynamics and your effectiveness as a leader. This session offers strategies to understand each generation's perspectives and enhance collaboration. | Watch Now
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| Leader Exchange: A Shift in Supply Chain Decision Making The evolution of supply chain demands in the surgical suite over the past four years has reshaped the way leaders think about purchasing processes and decisions. See how this panel of perioperative leaders has changed the way they approach supply chain at their facilities. Sponsored by Owens & Minor | Watch Now |
| Leader Exchange: Turning Conflict into Collaboration Peer-to-peer and hierarchical incivility and bullying inside surgical departments is more pervasive now than ever before. This panel dives into how these behaviors manifest, tools and tactics to address them, and how leaders can turn the tide inside their department. | Watch Now
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| Leader Exchange: Engaging & Supporting the Preceptor The preceptor role is essential to ensuring your new team members are able to learn and assimilate effectively in the periop environment. Hear a panel of leaders share their expertise on how to engage, invigorate, and better prepare the preceptor to succeed in their vital role. | Watch Now
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| Leader Exchange: Utilizing Innovative Technology to Manage Workload Are you strategizing how to effectively meet staffing and workload demands, while future-proofing your efficiency initiatives? Hear key insights into how new technology can be used to transform care in the OR. | Watch Now
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| Leader Exchange: Building Negotiation Skills for Key Interactions Whether you're making a business case for a capital purchase, advocating for policy change, or managing everyday conversations, see what it takes to be an effective leader with strong negotiation skills. | Watch Now
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| Leader Exchange: How to Navigate Recruitment, Retention & Team Engagement in a New Era Glean insights from a live panel of three perioperative leaders as they share lessons learned and unexpected wins during their journey to safely staff their department and maximize retention. | Watch Now
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If your company is interested in supporting and connecting with perioperative leaders, contact the AORN Industry Team for sponsorship opportunities.
Membership dues and Industry partnerships help ensure AORN can continue to deliver quality education programs that benefit perioperative practice and support the profession.
