Sue Lebeau

Nurses are health-care leaders and transformers. Nurses lead best when treated with care, respect and recognition, and when their voices are heard and heeded. As a career-long RNAO member and experienced chapter executive and board director, I am excited to continue to contribute to RNAO’s stellar nursing and health-care leadership.

From my days as an RNAO student representative, I expanded my scope and that of the nurses I led by completing my MScN and MBA with RNAO’s influence all the way.

I understand nurses’ experience from several perspectives. My broad health-care system experience spans being a northeastern and northwestern Ontario hospital CEO, being SEMEL OHT’s executive director, and decades of leadership in areas including home care, the NE LHIN, and the North Bay Regional Health Centre, as well as nursing experience in public health, sexual assault and domestic violence, primary care, and independent nurse practitioner (NP) practice. I have also taught nurses and NPs in post-secondary and post-baccalaureate settings.

My years of board contributions will benefit RNAO. These include NOSM University (Chair), ONE HITS, Kenora Rainy River Regional Lab Program, North Bay’s NP-Led Clinic, Victim Services and the Red Lake Francophone Association. I am a longtime Canadian College of Health Leaders chapter executive and member of its national Ethics Committee.

I am motivated by the privilege of enthusiastically supporting nurses across Ontario through responsive listening, generous knowledge sharing, deep empowerment, strong advocacy and resounding celebration. Here’s to a bright future as we contribute together to our nurses’ and patients’ wellbeing!