paraphrase: Nursing leaders must build a culture and facilitate innovation. In addition, an established culture influences what kind of leadership is possible. The cyclical relationship among culture, leadership, and innovation must be understood. Most integral to leadership is an acknowledgment that leadership must thrive at all levels of an organization.2 Innovation cannot be achieved alone; it must be inspired and ignited within all members of a team, particularly in health care and within nursing leaders. Leaders are responsible for building a culture and influencing innovation by role modeling key individual- and system-level leadership concepts. The individual-level concepts of inspired leadership and resilience, and the system-level concepts of transformational leadership, social capital, and change management are critical components for building a culture of innovation. Nurse leaders from multiple practice settings collaboratively designed a framework for innovation based on these core individual- and system-level concepts