This month we are pleased to present Kristen Lombard’s article, “The Circle Way to Authentic Leadership,” written for the professional journal, Nursing Management. Kristen describes how The Circle Way, as a leadership tool, helps develop learning communities that excel in creating innovative solutions to modern healthcare complexities, while encouraging relationship-based care and authentic leadership.

Please click here to enjoy Kristen’s article, which can also be found on the Articles page here.

Kristen Lombard PhD, RN, (USA) excels at guiding individuals and organizations toward authentic, positive leadership. She makes sense of complexity science and caring science and applies them to real world priorities such as quality, safety, and the patient experience. Kristen is an energetic and effective collaborator committed to developing agile, caring, and insightful leaders and teams. She is a qualitative researcher with interests in circle practice, authentic presence, Relationship-Based Care, reflective practice, and caring-healing processes.

Kristen has presented internationally, authored numerous papers and presentations, and her work has been published in professional journals and books. Her most recent endeavor is as lead author of a groundbreaking chapter on embedding relational competence in the book Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures.