ONL Leadership Catalyst

Leading at the Next Level: Refreshing, Enriching, and Elevating Your Leadership Practice 

Leadership is not static — it evolves as you do.

Day 1 of the ONL Leadership Catalyst offers an opportunity to step back, reflect, and intentionally strengthen your leadership practices. Regardless of where you are in your journey, this session will help you refresh your perspective, enrich your approach, and elevate your impact. Key areas of focus include:

• Cultivating leadership mindsets that strengthen critical thinking and problem solving
• Applying appreciative inquiry to inspire and motivate teams
• Leveraging the wisdom of experience to lead with clarity and confidence
• Navigating change with courage and agility
• Embracing generativity to nurture leadership in others
• Seeking intentional replenishment to recharge and renew perspective

Led by Dr. Barbara Mackoff, this session blends evidence-informed insight with practical tools to help nurse leaders lead with greater purpose, presence, and impact.

Barbara Mackoff, EdD

Dr. Barbara Mackoff is a consulting psychologist, author, and leadership educator. She is a Fulbright specialist and a senior faculty member at The American Organization of Nursing Leaders (AONL). She is a widely recognized authority on healthcare leadership and the author of Nursing Leadership: Nurse Manger Engagement and Leadership Laboratory for Nurse Leaders, which won first prize in The American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year awards.

Dr. Mackoff has held educational and clinical appointments at the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the schools of nursing at Adelphi University and Molloy College in New York.

Inclusive Leadership: Building Trust and Belonging on Your Team

Effective leadership requires more than vision and strategy — it requires trust.

To open Day 2 of the ONL Leadership Catalyst, nurse leaders will focus on cultivating inclusive leadership practices that foster psychological safety, strengthen collaboration, and create a genuine sense of belonging across care teams. In today’s complex, high-pressure health care environment, leaders must intentionally shape cultures where every team member feels respected, heard, and empowered to contribute fully.

Led by Jermaine Moore, this highly interactive session equips participants with practical tools to:

• Demonstrate behaviors that foster psychological safety and trust, particularly in high-stress clinical settings
• Recognize how unconscious bias influences decision-making and implement strategies to reduce inequities in staffing, communication, and patient interactions
• Practice inclusive leadership approaches — including authentic communication, empathic listening, and shared decision-making — to strengthen team performance
• Translate personal values into visible leadership behaviors that enhance engagement, retention, and outcomes

Participants will leave with concrete strategies to elevate all voices, strengthen cohesion, and build environments where belonging drives both workforce stability and patient care excellence.

Jermaine Moore

Jermaine Moore has spent the last twenty years building and developing highly engaged, high-performing teams. He is the founder of The Mars Hill Group, a consulting firm that specializes in leadership and team development; diversity, equity, and inclusion; executive coaching; culture assessment; communication training; and change mangement. Using a value-driven approach, he helps define culture, while introducing and reinforcing skills and behaviors that drive business results and team performance. Jermaine partners with organizational leaders to prioritize critical objectives and ensure teams are equipped to achieve these goals. The results lead to a rapid and lasting return on investment.

​In addition to leading thousands of employees all over the world through developmental discussions, Jermaine is a TEDx speaker, volunteers as the Diversity Director for the Human Resources State Council of NH, serves on the board of the Diversity Workforce Coalition and as a Trustee for Berwick Academy.

Leading Multi-Generational Teams: Coaching to Strengthen Resilience Through Meaningful Recognition 

Recognition is not about a token gesture — it is about building connection, resilience, and performance across generations.

Closing the ONL Leadership Catalyst, this session led by experts from Canopy Consultants integrates the reflective leadership work of Day 1 with the inclusive practices explored earlier on Day 2. Nurse leaders will examine how to navigate the complexities of today’s multigenerational workforce and sustain strong, adaptable teams.

Participants will explore how thoughtful, authentic recognition strengthens engagement, fosters resilience, and shapes high-performing team cultures. Through facilitated dialogue, practical exercises, and peer learning, leaders will reflect on their own resilience, assess how recognition practices influence team dynamics, and gain actionable strategies to coach across generational differences. Real-world insights from fellow leaders ground the experience in the everyday realities of nursing leadership.

Participants will gain:

• A deeper understanding of their own resilience and how to leverage it to support their teams
• Clarity on the connection between resiliency skills, meaningful recognition, and healthy work environments
• Personalized next steps to strengthen communication, cohesion, and engagement across generations

Participants will leave with an individualized action plan and practical resources they can immediately implement — driving healthier, more connected, and more resilient teams.

Stacy Hutton Johnson, PhD, MS/MBA, RN, NEA-BC

Dr. Stacy Hutton Johnson is Co-Founder and Principal of Canopy Consultants. Before becoming a full-time entrepreneur, Stacy served as the Associate Chief Nurse of Professional Practice at Atrius Health, a 25 site, multi-specialty ambulatory system where she partnered with Nurse Executives and the C-Suite to execute on a vision of team-based care. Her work focused on realizing the full value of RN, LPN and medical assistant team members working at the top of their scope of practice in an empowered work environment to enhance patient care. Stacy's ability to partner with interdisciplinary colleagues and establish a team and culture anchored on the Magnet principles was relied on when she served as Chief Nurse Officer at Boston Hope field hospital, which was set up for an under-served patient population in need during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stacy obtained her BSN from Saint Anselm College, her MS in Nursing Administration and MBA from Northeastern University, and her PhD from Boston College. Her dissertation research examined the influence of authentic leadership and structural empowerment on patient quality outcomes at the care unit level. Stacy's greatest professional joys come from developing leaders to find their voice and skills in service to patient care excellence and healthcare transformation.

Sara Macchiano, MS, MBA, RN, NEA-BC

Sara Macchiano is Co-Founder and Principal at Canopy Consultants. Prior to devoting herself full-time to Canopy Consultants, Sara was the Senior Administrative Director for Clinical Operations in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, a 1000 bed Academic Medical Center. She led the administrative clinical operations for over 60 outpatient clinics, adult and pediatric consult services, acute emergency services and inpatient unit- partnering closely with physician and administrative leaders to ensure advancements in care delivery and improvements in access to much-needed services. In her tenure, she reduced the average wait time for an outpatient visit, implemented an RN model for an injection clinic and RN staffed ketamine infusion clinic, supported the launch of multidisciplinary team-based care, and established clinical leader roles for Nurse Practitioners and Social Workers.

Sara is a BSN graduate of Wilkes University and received an MS in Nursing and an MBA from Boston College. Sara's desire to support and grow leaders comes from the tremendous mentorship and coaching she has benefited from as a nurse and administrative leader. Her proudest professional achievements have been when she has witnessed what becomes possible when a leader discovers voice and moves reflection to action.