Leadership Summit

AORN Expo 2025 | April 5-8 | Boston

Elevate Your Perioperative Leadership Skills

Join us at AORN Global Surgical Conference and Expo 2025 in Boston, where perioperative leaders gather to enhance their skills, network with peers, and stay ahead in the evolving healthcare landscape. The Leadership Summit is designed to provide nurse managers, directors, and perioperative professionals with the latest insights and strategies in the business and management aspects of perioperative nursing.

Two Conferences in One

The Leadership Summit offers a unique, dual-conference experience. Attendees gain access to all main conference events, including educational sessions, the Expo Hall, 200 continuing education contact hours, multiple learning tracks, breakout sessions, inspirational speakers, and celebratory events. And with on-demand access, you can revisit missed sessions, ensuring you capture every valuable insight and opportunity.

Ambulatory Track at Leadership Summit

The Ambulatory Track at the Leadership Summit offers specialized sessions and discussions designed for the unique challenges faced by ambulatory surgery leaders. Stay up to date on the latest trends, exchange insights and expand your professional network.
  • Managers and directors responsible for leading the surgical suite
  • Those looking to enhance administrative, management, and leadership skills
  • Emerging professionals eager to grow into leadership roles and expand their influence 
  • Ambulatory surgery leaders looking to improve their ASC
  • OR Directors and Managers
  • Vice Presidents of Nursing
  • Chief Nursing Officers
  • Risk Managers
  • Quality Control Managers
  • Patient Safety Officers
  • Four days of leader-focused education sessions
  • Exclusive leader networking lounge
  • Networking breakfasts and lunches
  • Access to award-winning leadership poster education
  • On-demand session recordings

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Become a Leader Member and Get Additional Perks

AORN leader membership provides seasoned and emerging periop leaders with the resources, education, and connections to support their careers. AORN provides periop leaders unique ways to engage and learn from peers  with similar challenges. Leader members also receive additional savings on Leadership Summit registration. 

Learn More About Leader Membership

Hear from 2024 Leadership Summit Attendees

"The session topics address 'big picture' issues that nurse leaders navigate, such as staff behaviors, human-centered leadership, how to generate statistics to support research and best practices, and more."

"I found it most beneficial that the presentations and speakers provided leaders with a toolbox of tools to take back to our own facilities. We were presented with real issues that other facilities and leaders experienced and shown how they addressed and improved them. Leaders were given beneficial and usable information."

"It was amazing being surrounded by others who understood my practice...so often that is not the case."

"This was my first ever AORN Experience. I loved everything about it! As a first-time leader, I just soaked everything in. The speakers were amazing."