Amy Trueblood, BSN, PhD(c), RN

Amy Trueblood is the Founder and CEO of True Anchor Consulting, LLC. She has served as faculty with the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) since 2017 and assumed the role of Senior Director of Leadership Development in May of 2024. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and her PhD research is focused on identifying the second-victim phenomenon in nurse leaders after events in which staff or patients are harmed. Trueblood has served in progressive leadership positions in acute care, including in a CNO role, in both hospital and health care settings, and has experienced firsthand the various sources of distress, incivility, and work environment stressors facing leaders and staff in healthcare. She received her BSN from the University of Iowa, and an MS in Administrative Nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.