Truist Leadership Development Program

CON Project Directors: Thompson Forbes, PhD, RN / Alexis Spence, MSN, RN

The Truist Leadership Center aims to empower current and future generations to be leaders in their community. East Carolina University College of Nursing has a long history of producing nurse leaders. Our mission is to train and prepare leaders. The leadership activities funded by the TRUIST Center for Leadership Development support the College of Nursing’s ability to grow, cultivate, and graduate nursing leaders. Our strategies reflect our intentional focus on assessing leadership competencies, designing effective and person-centered leadership strategies, and measuring our program’s impact to enhance the leadership capacity of all ECU College of Nursing graduates. The center supports leadership development projects that foster campus-wide collaboration and positively impact the East Carolina community. The College of Nursing receives funding from the center to advance students’ leadership capacity in our programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Graduate students attending the North Carolina Nurses Association Convention in Fall 2023 in Winston-Salem with Dr. Forbes and Mrs. Spence

Undergraduate and Graduate students representing the College of Nursing at Nurses Day at the Legislature in Spring of 2023 at the Capital learning how to advocate for the profession.

Graduate students with Dr. Forbes and Mrs. Spence and other faculty at Nurses Night at the Legislature in Spring 2023.

Graduate students with Dr. Forbes and Mrs. Spence at Nurses Night at the Legislature in Spring 2024.

Graduate students attending the North Carolina Nurses Association Convention in Fall 2024 in Concord with Dr. Forbes and Mrs. Spence.

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