Chief Nursing Executive (CNE) Forum: Nurse Leadership Conference
Fall Session: June 2 – June 4, 2025 | Conrad Hotel, Orlando, Florida
The Health Management Academy’s Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) Forum convenes an elite community of executive peers, industry innovators, and C-suite nurse executives to discuss the future or nursing. Senior nurse leaders from across the country will connect for thought-provoking conversations and exchange of ideas on how to lead change and shape the nursing profession.
The 2025 Spring CNE Forum will provide a high-level, focused exploration of nursing leadership's critical challenges in care team redesign, academic partnerships, leadership development, and succession planning.
For industry members, this is a unique opportunity to gain insights into today’s nursing challenges directly from healthcare executives; insights that can improve strategic alignment and product-market fit.
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An Exclusive Community of Changemakers
The CNE Forum places you in an exclusive community of changemakers looking for candid, trusted dialogue, and partnerships. It is an ecosystem of healthcare leaders made up exclusively of CNEs and heads of function from leading health systems with $2 billion dollars in annual operating revenue.
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What Sets the CNE Forum Apart
This is an unparalleled executive healthcare community. THMA’s Spring CNE Forum fosters conversations and long-term relationships among industry executives looking for a peer network and unique, transparent discourse.
Member-Driven Content, Curated for CNEs: All our meetings are built around the priorities that matter most to today’s healthcare CNEs, like staffing shortages, and improving quality and patient experience. From small-group discussions to breakout sessions and executive panels, all content is led by, and for, members.
The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include 30–40 health system CNEs from organizations like Mayo Clinic, Yale New Haven Health, Novant Health, and Intermountain, alongside key industry leaders - typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and product and strategy executives. All participants are hand-selected based on their ability to contribute meaningfully to the conversation.
A Forum Built for Relationships: The two and a half days include reception-style dinners and informal social gatherings that welcome friends and family, and foster relationship building.
True Partnership: This is a peer-to-peer forum. The industry executives who attend this program are here to listen, contribute insights, and build lasting connections with CNEs facing similar challenges.
Who Attends?
CNE Forum attendees include CNEs from the nation’s leading health systems, integrated delivery networks, and flagship hospitals across the country. Every participant is hand-selected to ensure purposeful conversations, strategic alignment, and mutual value, creating opportunities for candid peer engagement and shared problem-solving. On the health system side, attendees include Chief Nurse Executives and heads of nursing functions from the nation’s leading health systems. These are the executives navigating the most pressing patient care challenges in healthcare today. On the industry side, participation is equally intentional. Attendees are typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategy or product leaders from companies working to transform the delivery of healthcare at the bedside. All industry participants are selected based on their ability to contribute insights, engage as peers, not vendors, and foster long-term relationships with healthcare CNEs.
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The CNE Forum Experience
Each CNE Forum is a 2.5-day immersive experience with member-led sessions focusing on real-time challenges and forward-looking strategies. The Health Management Academy’s Spring 2025 Chief Nursing Officer (CNE) Forum provides original insights and analysis of today’s nursing challenges.
Recent topics include:
Executing Executive Priorities: Nursing leaders at leading health systems nationwide share how they implement change management capstone projects.
Care Team Redesign: CNEs and CHROs in a joint session discussing how they are partnering to reshape the care team, incorporating merging technologies and non-clinical support staff to expand RN impact in inpatient settings.
Building Better Academic Partnerships: A candid discussion with CNEs and academic leaders on transforming nursing education partnerships and addressing persistent challenges in preparing tomorrow’s workforce.
Supporting the Next Generation of Nurses: A discussion on how CNEs are addressing novice nurse anxiety and burnout, fostering professional growth and well-being.
Our Convening Experiences
Year-Round Healthcare Nursing Leadership Resources
Membership includes access to THMA’s year-round Executive Insights Hub, discussing nursing challenges and solutions in the nation’s largest health systems and trending CXO priorities.
Our other year-round resources include:
Quarterly Trend Reports: Digestible insights and follow-ups from live briefings and proprietary research.
Executive Edge: A Sunday evening digest with quick-read summaries of industry-impacting events.
Post-Forum Debriefs: Key takeaways and insights from our Forums - useful even for teammates who didn’t attend.
Healthcare Bootcamp: A library of short videos and modules to onboard new team members or sharpen your team’s healthcare knowledge.
Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
For over 25 years, The Health Management Academy has convened health system C-suite leaders and select industry executives, curating two-way conversations, collaborative problem solving and thought leadership sharing.
Join us at one of our upcoming Forums. You can explore dates, locations, and agendas below.
How to Join
Participation in the CNE Forum is invitation-only and carefully curated to ensure the right fit. If you are a nurse manager, healthcare CNE, or industry executive looking to form real partnerships with fellow leaders, we’d love to hear from you. Complete the form below to request more information and start a conversation with our team. Let’s reimagine what’s possible when healthcare’s top clinical and nursing minds are in the same room.
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