Lori Armstrong, RN, NEA-BC, CEC

CEO & Chief Clinical Officer 
Inspire Nurse Leaders® 

Dr Lori Armstrong is CEO and Chief Clinical Officer at Inspire Nurse Leaders® and Inspire Healthcare Leaders®.  Inspire specializes in educating and growing healthcare leaders to become their best while enabling them to achieve great outcomes for their teams, the patients and families they serve, and their organization.  

For over 25 years, Dr Armstrong held executive-level and senior leadership roles at top hospitals, including Stanford Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, and New York Presbyterian.  

Academically, Lori earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice-Executive Leadership at Drexel University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School's Executive Leadership Program. 

Lori serves on several national boards and is the recipient of multiple awards, including Silicon Valley Woman of Distinction and the Jennifer L Howse Leadership Award.  

Lori earned the elite global recognition as a Certified Master in the Leadership Challenge, one of the world’s most widely used leadership operating systems.   

Most recently, her passion for the link between patient/staff outcomes led Lori to create the IMPACT group coaching program and the on-demand Nurse Leader Academy (NLA). Both are designed to help leaders achieve top decile performance.