Greta G. Cummings is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta; New Investigator, CIHR; Population Health Investigator, AHFMR, and an international leader in healthcare leadership science. She is principal investigator of the CLEAR Outcomes (Connecting Leadership, Education, & Research) Research Program. Her contributions to knowledge development about leadership practices and their impact on outcomes for nurses and patients have been acknowledged by the Canadian Nurses Association, from which she received the 2010 Order of Merit for Research. She has also received awards of research excellence from the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (2008), and the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (2008). She is a member of several international research teams, Past President of the Canadian Association on Nurses in Oncology, and President of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care (2010-2014).