Prof. Selena Gilles chosen for NLN’s LEAD program

Selena A Gilles, DNP, ANP-BC, CNEcl, CCRN, has been selected through competitive application for the National League for Nursing’s year-long LEAD program, one of three tracks in the NLN Leadership Institute, an initiative of the NLN Center for Transformational Leadership. Now in its eighth year, LEAD is designed for nurses in both education and practice who have experienced rapid transition into leadership positions or aspire to advance their status as leaders in administration.

Gilles is a clinical assistant professor at NYU Meyers and teaches in the undergraduate program. She began her career as a critical care nurse and later became an adult nurse practitioner in the Department of Neurological Surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Gilles is a member of the American Academy of Critical Care Nurses, National League of Nurses, Nurse Practitioners of New York, the Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, and the Greater New York City Black Nurses Association.

Gilles is one of 46 nurse educators and practice leaders chosen from colleges, universities, and health care institutions around the world to make up the 2019 NLN Leadership Institute cohort. Participants identify personal and professional goals; learn about what makes an effective leader; and strategize how to re-tool skill sets and experiences to achieve individual benchmarks. To that end, everyone receives intensive one-on-one executive coaching, in addition to attending online and live group coaching sessions, conferences, and webinars, where they study leadership theory and development that includes case study review.

To kick off the program, all 2019 NLN Leadership Institute participants attended a joint orientation session on February 11-12 in Washington, DC, and the LEAD cohort will return to DC June 9-11 for the annual NLN Intensive Leadership Retreat. 

NLN CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, said: “To promote diversity among leaders in nursing education, at least 25 percent of program participants in LEAD have been selected from under-represented groups. In addition, a key outcome initially identified for the 2019 Leadership Institute’s LEAD program continues to apply: 80 percent of program participants commit to remaining in academic leadership positions following completion of the program.”