Sheena Howard
RN, BNSc, MA
Founder of The Global Love-Led Leadership Movement, Creator of The be LOVE-LED™ Blueprint, Primary Care and Mental Health Nurse, Professor – Fleming College
Season 02 - Episode 01
Sheena Howard RN, BNSc, MA
Sheena has been described as transformative nurse leader and coach who is authentic, funny, engaging, passionate and empathetic. She would say that she has been blamed for being optimistic, creative, a positive disrupter, an outlier, early adopter and thought leader and always accepts the blame.
Sheena holds a Bachelor of Nursing Science from Queen’s University School of Nursing and her Masters of Leadership (Health Specialization) from Royal Road’s University. Sheena’s thesis, “Inspiring positive change in the healthcare system through love-led leadership” was awarded ‘with distinction’ and won the coveted Founder’s Award. Sheena was the first to submit a definition for love-led leadership and outline the characteristics of a love-led leader. Since then, Sheena has coached and mentored nurses, physicians, healthcare professionals and educators in this emerging leadership lens and consulted on the operationalization of love-led leadership in a variety of organizations.
Sheena specializes in the primary care and mental health of marginalized families and individuals particularly trans-identified, gender queer, LGBTQ2S+ people and women, youth and children with ADHD and mental illness. Sheena was the first RN second assessor for gender affirmation surgery in Ontario, Canada. She is the co-chair of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario’s (RNAO) Best Practice Guideline For the Care of LGBTQ+ Communities Expert Development Panel. Sheena has been a successful advocate for primary care RNs working to full scope including RN prescribing and has been invited to speak internationally, nationally and provincially on issue related to LGBTQ+ healthcare, nursing leadership and primary care nursing.
The hallmarks of Sheena’s work are advocacy, curiosity, pattern seeking and human connection. She has devoted her entire nursing career to sitting with thousands of people across the age and gender spectrum while they share their fears, losses, traumas, joys and wild hopes. She has seen humans at their most vulnerable and believes that her work in caring for humans is love made visible. She has experienced the positive power of love-led leadership in action and experienced devastating effects when it is absent. She never wants to see that again. Sheena has used The be LOVE-LED™ Blueprint to help herself and others overcome the paralyzing fear of imposter syndrome, recover from burnout and thrive in life and work. Sheena wants to share love-led leadership with the world and promote the use love-led leadership as the primary leadership model for healthcare and educational leaders, organizations and systems so they may be a force for positive change.
Website: www.sheenahoward.com
Love-Led Leadership Course Website: https://portal.sheenahoward.com/
Twitter: @SheenaLGHoward
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/loveledleadershipmovement
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheena-howard-rn-bnsc-ma-leadership-973a7a117/
