Are You Ready To Redefine What It Means To Be A Nurse Leader In Today’s Dynamic Healthcare Environment?
The Synova Advanced Nurse Leader Certification offers a learning experience that will help you realize your potential as a neonatal or perinatal leader in driving both organizational and unit success. Six pillars of advanced educational curriculum provide you with the tools and frameworks to effectively lead innovation and manage change. You will explore various leadership styles to become a more strategic leader, equipped to build and inspire high-impact teams and drive quality and safety. Your in-depth learning journey will include live virtual lectures by expert faculty, group mentoring, and individual self-reflective exercises, culminating in a Leadership Implementation Plan presentation to a review board that includes Synova Executive Advisory Board members.
Program Objectives
With this certification, you’ll embark on a journey of authentic leadership, fostering self-awareness, quality communication, and the creation of healthy work environments. The ANLC will allow you to:
- Deepen your leadership prowess in targeted areas including mentorship, wellbeing, community, culture of quality and safety, strategy and operations.
- Strengthen your commitment to the profession of nursing through the synthesis of key leadership domains.
- Enhance your connectivity to the nursing community by modeling strategies for both personal and workplace wellbeing.
- Advance your professional influence and network reach as a nursing leader through dynamic mentoring relationships.
The ANLC is designed to challenge both Perinatal and Neonatal Nurse leaders to excel at the highest level. While the ANLC is not currently accredited with organizations such as ANCC (Magnet designation), Synova’s leadership certification program approaches nurse leader certification in a new way. Rather than focusing on a traditional certification exam – testing leaders on what they already know – the ANLC provides opportunities for leaders to learn and apply essential concepts found in the 6 program pillars, while exploring the intersection of equity and authenticity in each of these pillars.
Perinatal & Neonatal Focus
Designed specifically to address the unique challenges faced by nurse leaders in perinatal and neonatal care. The ANLC is the first program of its kind to focus on the unique and strategic competencies related and requisite to perinatal and neonatal nursing leadership.
Innovative
A groundbreaking certification that stands apart from traditional programs, designed to transform leadership. Group learning and individual mentoring provide a unique and valuable strategy for supporting current and future nursing leaders.
Rigorous, Yet Achievable
With an 87% completion rate, this certification is designed to challenge and prepare leaders for real-world success.
Expert Faculty
Learn from distinguished leaders in the field who are deeply invested in your success and professional development.
Personalized Support
ANLC faculty provide dedicated guidance, offering tailored support to meet the specific needs of perinatal and neonatal nurse leaders.
Collaborative Learning
Our community-based learning environment fosters peer-to-peer collaboration, creating a rich space for shared knowledge and growth.
Educational Pillars:
The Advanced Nurse Leader Certification (ANLC), Neonatal (ANLC-N) and Advanced Nurse Leader Certification – Perinatal (ANLC-P) are awarded to neonatal and perinatal Nurse Leaders that have demonstrated dedication to deepening their expertise in areas of Mentorship, Community, Well-being, Culture of Quality & Safety, Strategy, and Operations. Additionally, the ANLC leaders are also able to demonstrate the values of authenticity and equity as they apply these essential principles in leading their teams.
The virtual program consists of the following curriculum:
Click the pinwheel petals to learn more about our educational pillars.
Program Benefits:
The Advanced Nurse Leader Certification program is an incredible return on investment for leaders and their organization as they learn how to operationalize critical elements into their leadership practice. When individuals are involved in leadership development, the benefits gained impact both the individual and the organization. Bottom line, effective leadership improves organizational performance.
Leadership development benefits are numerous and well documented, and include:
Improved Retention
High potential leaders are more likely to stay (2.4X) if they have leadership development programs that help them accomplish career goals and learn new skills.
Leadership Pipeline
Leadership development improves the pool of highly qualified leadership candidates, leading to attracting, engaging and retaining top talent.
Reduced Burnout
By reducing employee stress and improving job satisfaction, leadership development can prevent employee burnout and resulting turnover.
Organizational Success
Developing nurse leaders leads to better responsiveness to change, and improved strategic execution, creating organizations that are top financial performers.
Program Success Data
Compared with other certifications, the majority of ANLC learners reported that the program was more rewarding, more applicable to practice, and relevant to their current role.
of learners reported that the program met or exceeded their expectations, with 60% saying that the program exceeded their expectations
or more of learners reported that the program provides strategies for career advancement when compared with other certifications
of learners reported that the program is a stronger return on investment, when compared to other certifications
“This course provided a great framework for a practice change and allowed me to purposely pause a few times a month and give time and thought to my leadership practices. Many of the pillars provided new insight and I enjoyed the mentoring sessions where you can hear from and communicate with your peers and learn from each other’s triumphs and struggles. Again and again, it feels so refreshing to know and hear that you are not alone in this journey and that things you are facing are being faced by almost everyone else.”
Financial and Value Highlights
$2499 PER PERSON
Space is limited to no more than 25 leaders per cohort to ensure that personal support and attention can be provided to each learner.
Program provides nursing contact hours
Distinguished Expert Faculty: Faculty bring industry-leading, top-level expertise to both learning and mentoring sessions. ANLC faculty and staff engage with learners and are attuned to the needs and challenges of perinatal and neonatal leaders.
Culminates in a Leader Implementation Plan, bringing measurable, actionable, impactful work back to your organization.
Next Steps
To sign up for the next Advanced Nurse Leader Certification cohort, simply click here to access the registration form and submit your payment electronically.




