CEO Pathways to Excellence Summit

CNE in Partnership with HCA Healthcare

The CEO Pathways to Excellence Summit is a two-day immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofit CEOs and Executive Directors focused on strengthening leadership and navigating today's strategic and organizational complexities. Through expert-led workshops, peer learning, and practical tools. participants will strengthen decision making, build leadership resilience, and gain actionable strategies to lead with clarity in a rapidly changing environment. This summit creates space for reflection, connection, and forward-thinking leadership equipping CEO's and ED's to drive sustainable impact for their organizations and communities.

March 26th & 27th

Ideal for CEOs or Executive Directors that have been in that role for 2 years or more. 

Thursday, March 26th  8 am – 5:30pm

• 8-8:30 am Networking Breakfast
• 8:30-10am - "Confidence Within: Empowering the Person Behind the Professional"
• 10-10:10 Break
• 10:10-11:40 – "Managing Difficult Interactions in High Stakes Moments"
• 11:40-1pm Lunch & panel discussion – Wellness/Burnout panel
• 1-1:10 Break
• 1:10 – 2:40 pm- "AI as a Teammate: How to Work Smarter not Harder" 
• 2:40-2:50 – Break
• 2:50- 4:20 pm "Building Innovative Teams Through Creative Thinking"
• 4:20-4:30 Closing remarks
• 4:30-5:30 Networking Event

Friday, March 27th 8 am – Noon

• 8-8:30 am Networking Breakfast
• 8:30-11:30- Peer Strategy Exchange- A structured, confidential space for nonprofit CEOs to receive high-quality peer feedback on a single organizational challenge. Each CEO presents one issue and receives actionable insights from a small group of  peer executives.
• 11:30-Noon-Closing Speaker: James Pond, President of the Governor's Early Literacy Foundation

Register by March 6th for Early Bird Rate

Price increases by $50 after March 6th

Registration deadline-March 24th