Deadline: 25 October 2024
The fully funded, 12-month India Leadership Journey is designed to provide talented mid-career women leaders in health with the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.
The program imparts contextualized tools and frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in global health face today.
Participants engage in two in-person experiential learning residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), in addition to virtual learning touchpoints, virtual group mentoring, virtual one-on-one coaching sessions, and importantly, a self-directed leadership project – all the while being supported by their Leadership Journey community and experts in the health sector.
At WomenLift Health, they work with an intentional focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and intersectionality, expressed through the approach, actions, values, internal processes, and the commitment to continuous learning. They believe that for leadership to be truly transformative, it must advocate for, give voice to, and represent women with diverse lived experiences.
Values
- Authentic Leadership: is discovered through a lifelong exploration of one’s self and purpose while building on awareness of and trust in one’s abilities.
- Inclusive Leadership: encourages an intentional exploration of power and privilege to reveal unconscious biases or systemic prejudices.
- Impactful Leadership: inspires gender equality and leads to better health through a crystalized understanding of the power of one’s leadership and the critical importance of developing others for greater impact.
- Strategic Leadership: is rooted in an understanding of one’s influence and how to leverage it to capture collective energy and facilitate change within institutions and the global health community.
Focus Areas
- Journey design focuses on eight essential leader competencies:
- Leader Identity: Projects a clear sense of self, including awareness and monitoring of the components that drive a leader’s intent, behaviors, and impact on others.
- Confidence and Courage: Demonstrates inner strength and reliance on one’s\ personal capabilities.
- Relationship Building: Applies an inclusive and discerning approach to developing new and existing relationships.
- Developing Others: Actively works to build the capacity of others by providing guidance and support, and fostering a healthy team dynamic in a concerted effort to grow the pipeline of diverse leaders in health.
- Ecosystem Mindset: Cultivates a broad vision, embraces transformational thinking and applies cultural intelligence in decision making.
- Leader Agility: Envisions the big picture and leads change processes with discernment and versatility.
- Resilience: Maintains the energy and mindset to lead as the best version of one’s self.
- Leadership Presence: Recognized as a respected and trusted leader in the organization.
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:
- You identify as a woman.
- You work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (Your work and partnerships serve populations at the national or regional level in India and may include practicing public health, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, supporting service delivery, or managing teams/departments or projects/grants in public health.).
- You have 10-25 years of experience working in public health in India.
- You are an Indian National and reside and work within India.
- Possess ease in written and verbal communication in English.
For more information, visit Womenlift Health.
