Miriam Fugfugosh, Center for Creative Leadership, Senior Faculty
Miriam is the lead facilitator for the WomenLift Heath East Africa journey. She is a content designer and facilitator, she focuses on topics of leadership, inclusion, self-awareness building, team effectiveness and dialogue. She has founded and contributes to various programmes in women’s leadership enhancement internationally. For over 25 years, Miriam has contributed to learning opportunities for professionals in the public and private sector. She has worked with clients in the fields of peace enhancement, governance, global health systems, community resilience and human rights with individuals associated with national ministries, international organizations, foundations, NGOs, civil society and international corporations. Miriam works in multicultural, multinational, and multilingual environments across four continents with individuals of varying educational and professional backgrounds, and in various positions of hierarchies. A proud mother of two young men, Miriam was raised in Djibouti, is Somali-American and Swiss. She is fluent in English and French, and proficient in Spanish.
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Redefining Work/Life Balance for Women Leaders in Public Health
PowerUp Workshop Series
The PowerUp Workshops series are free and open to mid-career women working in public health in all the regions we work. The workshops are hosted virtually, focus on developing leadership skills, and fostering meaningful connections between women leaders in health within a regional context. The topics rotate with each workshop. We encourage women leaders in public health in each region to join us, and use these workshops as an opportunity to learn, engage with other women leaders, and build community.
WomenLift Health in partnership with WILAN is hosting an interactive virtual workshop to provide mid-career women working in public and public health in Nigeria with the information and tools to move towards a more productive and sustainable way of managing the boundaries between their work and personal lives.
Women leaders in public and public health are dealing with complex challenges, competing demands, fast-paced work environments, and the burden of domestic responsibilities without additional resources or support. The challenge of balancing work and personal priorities has been heightened following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
“Balance” may suggest that “work” is competing with “life,” implying that one is always working against the other, rather than functioning in harmony, often evoking a tightrope walk between the two. This workshop aims to reframe this notion into a more integrative and harmonious approach, rather than striving for a neat 50/50 split.
This session aims to provide mid-career women leaders working in public and global health in Nigeria with the information and tools to move towards a more productive and sustainable way of managing the boundaries between their work and personal lives.
PowerUp Objectives:
This session will help you develop a more sustainable approach towards maintaining harmony between your work and personal life. You will:
- Explore your preferences and how you prioritize your life;
- Understand the strengths and challenges associated with your personal priorities and preferences; and
- Identify and build a more harmonized approach that is tailored to your preferences.
Registration Details
21 May @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm WAT
Please note that in order to enroll in the session, you should complete all sections of the registration form.
You are eligible for the workshop if you meet all of the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman
- Has 10-25 years of work experience and/or identifies as someone in mid-career in their institutions*
- 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 Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)
This virtual workshop will be conducted in the English language and is free of cost.
WomenLift Health PowerUp Workshops are interactive. By signing up, participants agree to participate in the full session, which includes plenary discussions and breakout group activities.
Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, as spots are limited.
*Although women at all career stages are welcome to register, we believe participants who are at the mid-career stage will benefit most, as the content of the workshop has been designed with mid-career women health professionals in mind (10–25 years of experience working in the public health sector). If the number of registrants exceeds our capacity, women who are within the preferred experience range will be given priority.
Registrants should await an email confirming their spot in the workshop. Please check your spam folders if you did not receive an email.
Miriam Fugfugosh, Center for Creative Leadership, Senior Faculty
Miriam is the lead facilitator for the WomenLift Heath East Africa journey. She is a content designer and facilitator, she focuses on topics of leadership, inclusion, self-awareness building, team effectiveness and dialogue. She has founded and contributes to various programmes in women’s leadership enhancement internationally. For over 25 years, Miriam has contributed to learning opportunities for professionals in the public and private sector. She has worked with clients in the fields of peace enhancement, governance, global health systems, community resilience and human rights with individuals associated with national ministries, international organizations, foundations, NGOs, civil society and international corporations. Miriam works in multicultural, multinational, and multilingual environments across four continents with individuals of varying educational and professional backgrounds, and in various positions of hierarchies. A proud mother of two young men, Miriam was raised in Djibouti, is Somali-American and Swiss. She is fluent in English and French, and proficient in Spanish.
Find her on LinkedIn and X (Twitter)
PowerUp Workshop Series
The PowerUp Workshops series are free and open to mid-career women working in public health in all the regions we work. The workshops are hosted virtually, focus on developing leadership skills, and fostering meaningful connections between women leaders in health within a regional context. The topics rotate with each workshop. We encourage women leaders in public health in each region to join us, and use these workshops as an opportunity to learn, engage with other women leaders, and build community.
WomenLift Health in partnership with WILAN is hosting an interactive virtual workshop to provide mid-career women working in public and public health in Nigeria with the information and tools to move towards a more productive and sustainable way of managing the boundaries between their work and personal lives.
Women leaders in public and public health are dealing with complex challenges, competing demands, fast-paced work environments, and the burden of domestic responsibilities without additional resources or support. The challenge of balancing work and personal priorities has been heightened following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
“Balance” may suggest that “work” is competing with “life,” implying that one is always working against the other, rather than functioning in harmony, often evoking a tightrope walk between the two. This workshop aims to reframe this notion into a more integrative and harmonious approach, rather than striving for a neat 50/50 split.
This session aims to provide mid-career women leaders working in public and global health in Nigeria with the information and tools to move towards a more productive and sustainable way of managing the boundaries between their work and personal lives.
PowerUp Objectives:
This session will help you develop a more sustainable approach towards maintaining harmony between your work and personal life. You will:
- Explore your preferences and how you prioritize your life;
- Understand the strengths and challenges associated with your personal priorities and preferences; and
- Identify and build a more harmonized approach that is tailored to your preferences.
Registration Details
21 May @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm WAT
Please note that in order to enroll in the session, you should complete all sections of the registration form.
You are eligible for the workshop if you meet all of the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman
- Has 10-25 years of work experience and/or identifies as someone in mid-career in their institutions*
- 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 Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)
This virtual workshop will be conducted in the English language and is free of cost.
WomenLift Health PowerUp Workshops are interactive. By signing up, participants agree to participate in the full session, which includes plenary discussions and breakout group activities.
Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, as spots are limited.
*Although women at all career stages are welcome to register, we believe participants who are at the mid-career stage will benefit most, as the content of the workshop has been designed with mid-career women health professionals in mind (10–25 years of experience working in the public health sector). If the number of registrants exceeds our capacity, women who are within the preferred experience range will be given priority.
Registrants should await an email confirming their spot in the workshop. Please check your spam folders if you did not receive an email.
