Nurse Leaders are required to have knowledge concerning professional values and an awareness of their perceptions and attitudes about diversity which include unconscious bias. Nurse leaders' alignment to professional values and their perceptions and attitudes of diversity affect decision making, which includes hiring decisions. Therefore, the present survey aimed to describe nurse leaders' existing beliefs of diversity and nursing professional responsibilities and explore the relationship among these and the intent to hire for diversity. This work is foundational to understand how factors of diversity and nursing professional role predict intention to hire and thus could improve nursing workforce diversity. Leaders were diversity optimists and have strongly aligned professional values. Leaders demonstrated positive relationships between behavior, normative, and control beliefs, suggesting they would consider or hire diverse applicants. Additional study is needed to determine if diversity optimists actually hire for diversity when qualified candidates are available.