Keynotes

Donna delivers high-energy, inspirational and transformational keynotes. She has been referred to as a force of nature who lights a path for others to follow.

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Keynote Descriptions

A Nursing Renaissance™: The Dawn of a New Era

Join The Inspiration Nurse for this transformational program where she shares a roadmap for a bright and hopeful future for nursing. Donna will outline the amazing opportunities before us to create a new paradigm that will empower, enlighten, and elevate the profession to new heights. With her customary humor, animated style, and forward vision, Donna will uplift and energize to illuminate a new path for all to follow. Look out, world, here come the Nurses!

Attendees will learn:

  • Strategies for personal and professional recovery, rebirth, and renewal
  • Mechanisms for honoring the past while leaving behind what no longer serves us
  • Techniques to become profound change agents
  • Empowerment strategies that will transform your practice
Nurse Power!™

Harnessing The Power, The Passion, and The Pride of Nursing

This uplifting program is designed to remind nurses of their own greatness and empower them for future success. It’s guaranteed to make nurses feel good and proud of who they are, what they do, and how they contribute to healthcare. Get ready to be pumped up, turned on, and super-charged with Nurse Power!

Participants will learn:

  • What they already have going for them
  • How nurses have already changed the face of healthcare
  • How to be a nursing advocate
  • Techniques for assertive behavior/communication
  • Strategies for elevating the profession to new heights
Regaining Joy and Balance to Move Forward

Times have been tough and nurses/healthcare professionals are just emerging from one of their greatest challenges ever. Having recently celebrated the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, it’s only fitting that we ask ourselves: What would Florence do? Join Donna as she channels Flo for an inspirational and practical program to lift you up and get you back on track.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Cultivate resilience
  • Create a mindfulness practice
  • Restore wellbeing
  • Empower themselves for future success
Staying Joyfully Engaged at Every Stage of Your Career

Florence Nightingale said, “Nursing should not be a sacrifice, but one of the highest delights of life.” Staying fully engaged and happy through the continuum of your career is vital to your success, your effectiveness as a healthcare professional, and even your health. Spend a fun, energetic, and practical session with The Inspiration Nurse as we explore ways to pump up the volume in your career…and your life!

Attendees will learn strategies to:

  • Stay engaged and energized at every stage of their career
  • Be a catalyst for positive change
  • Maximize multi-generational teams
  • Enhance recruitment and retention
  • Promote collegiality with each other, their profession, and their workplace.
Studio Portrait Of Female Nurse Wearing Uniform And Face Mask
Passionate Leadership: Soaring to New Heights

Today’s leaders are challenged like never before. At the same time, they are in a unique position to have a greater impact on the future of their industry. So how can you stay inspired and continue to grow and evolve as a leader when chaos reigns, morale is low and change is a constant? Spend a high-content, high-fun hour (or longer) with The Inspiration Nurse and get primed, pumped-up and supercharged for the coming decade!

Participants will learn how to:

  • Identify and avoid the perils and pitfalls of being an experienced leader
  • Become stronger by softening yourself
  • Create physical and emotional accessibility
  • Stay relevant and inspired year after year
  • Self-management strategies to support your success
The Heart of Nursing

This powerful and energizing program reminds nurses of their core values, vision, and purpose. By returning to basics, taking care of ourselves, and enhancing our professional practice, attendees will be reinvigorated to maximize their personal and professional potential while ramping up their positive engagement with patients, each other, their profession, and their workplace.

Participants will learn:

  • How to be a catalyst for positive change
  • Powerful yet simple patient connection tools
  • Techniques for extreme self-care
  • Empowerment strategies that work
  • Professional development with purpose
The Power of Resilience

Challenge, change, and chaos has become the order of the day in our personal and professional lives. So how can you meet them head on and bounce back better and stronger rather than being overwhelmed? Donna will show you how to foster strategies to respond positively to change, adversity and stress while developing a sense of mastery, confidence, and personal power. Learn to turn challenges that threaten to knock us to the ground into the building blocks we need to become more successful, more joyful, and ultimately, more alive.

Attendees will learn to:

  • Build personal power and confidence
  • Embrace change
  • Approach life with a positive perspective ​
  • Develop habits to nurture and nourish self

The Power of Transformation

This transformational program confronts the inevitability of change in our lives and careers, understanding why we resist change, strategies to embrace change and stay relevant, and how in the end, change will help us to create a vibrant future for ourselves and our profession. Without change, there is no growth and if you're not growing you're stagnating!

Participants will learn:

  • How to overcome their fear of change
  • Specific ways to build 'change stamina'
  • How to maintain inner calm in the midst of outer chaos
  • Strategies for personal and career transformation
  • The importance of avoiding obsolescence

Click on the video to watch a snippet of this presentation from the Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD) in New Orleans.

Invite Donna to Your Event

For booking and availability to have Donna ignite your audience and ensure your event success contact us at:

Donna@DonnaCardillo.com or 848-241-3166
Or submit an inquiry form

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