Nicole Petersen

Nicole Petersen

Director Of People Development Renown Health
Nicole Petersen

Nicole Petersen is the Director of People Development at Renown Health, where she leads enterprise learning and leadership development, and drives career growth strategies to strengthen organizational culture and performance. Known for her people first philosophy, Nicole designs and scales development experiences that empower individuals and elevate leadership capability across complex systems. Nicole is a nationally recognized HR leader, named to Ragan's Top Women in HR (2026) in the Learning & Development Leaders category for her impact on advancing the future of work and building thriving, inclusive workplaces. She was also honored as a 2026 Women of Achievement by Nevada Women's Fund, recognizing her meaningful contributions to her organization and community through leadership, mentorship and impact. A certified executive and career coach, Nicole brings a practical, human-centered approach to leadership—helping leaders navigate change, build trust, and unlock potential. Her work is grounded in a deep belief that lifelong learning and the power of intentional development can transform both people and organizations.

Monday, September 21

5:35 PM Boardroom A: Intergenerational Learning — Honoring Experience While Building New Capability

Healthcare organizations carry five generations in their workforce with starkly different relationships to technology, hierarchy, learning, and change. Treating development as a uniform experience ignores the reality that what builds capability in a new-graduate nurse is not what builds it in a 25-year veteran charge nurse. 

  • Designing learning pathways that honor the accumulated expertise of experienced clinicians rather than inadvertently signaling that everything they know needs to be replaced 
  • Building intergenerational knowledge transfer structures that move institutional wisdom into organizational memory before it walks out the door 
  • Using AI-assisted personalization to create adaptive learning experiences that reach every segment of the workforce without proportionally scaling L&D headcount or budget 

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