The Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC) represents national nursing and other organizations working to build healthier communities in America by increasing nurses’ presence on corporate, health-related, and other boards, panels, and commissions. The NOBC was created in response to the landmark 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which recommended increasing the number of nurse leaders in pivotal decision-making roles on boards and commissions that work to improve the health of everyone in America.
The Coalition’s goal is to help ensure that at least 10,000 nurses are on boards by 2020, as well as raise awareness that all boards would benefit from the unique perspective of nurses to achieve the goals of improved health, and efficient and effective health care systems at the local, state, and national levels.
The NOBC publicly documents the progress being made to get nurse leaders on boards. The Coalition also wants to build awareness with public and corporate and nonprofit leaders that having a nurse as a trustee or board member on just about any board is a smart move toward achieving shared goals of improved health and efficient and effective health care.
Laurie Benson is the Executive Director of the NOBC. She has more than 35 years of experience serving as a corporate executive, founder,CEO, C-suite advisor, and multi-sector board member. Since 2009, she has served as CEO of LBS Unlimited. In this role, she served as an advisor to executives on issues such as board governance, innovation, strategy and high performance teams. She currently serves as a member of several corporate and non-profit boards in industries ranging from health care, finance,and insurance to manufacturing and technology.
Benson earned a bachelor’s degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2013, she was named one of UW Madison’s Distinguished Alumni and received the Chancellor’s Entrepreneurial Achievement Award.
Register your information about your board membership and/or interest in future service so the Coalition can compile a national database of nurses serving on boards, and ultimately help connect nurses with boards. Click here to register.