Transformational Thinking For Health Leaders - from Fiona Day Consulting
A podcast that will help you meet your most complex leadership challenges. This podcast - from Registered & Chartered Coaching Psychologist and Master Practitioner Coach & Mentor Dr Fiona Day - will transform your perspectives.
It will help you become a more effective and creative leader, with a deeper understanding of yourself and your own world of work. Fiona interviews other medical and public health leaders, generating thought-provoking, and dialectical dialogues.
You'll hear inspirational stories and real-world insights which will help you do your own best work now and into the future.
Expect open and honest discussions with both emerging and established health leaders and to hear their career stories, the journeys that led to their current positions – including the twists and turns and how they made decisions along the way.
You’ll also hear how medical and public health leaders balance multiple roles inside and outside of work, their reflections on health leadership, and their own insights and learning over the years.
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Transformational Thinking For Health Leaders - from Fiona Day Consulting
21 - Dr. Ahsana Nazish
In this episode, I speak with Dr Ahsana Nazish, a public health leader whose work bridges hospital management, health systems, and policy. She leads a network of primary care filter clinics across Punjab, delivering screening and treatment for liver and kidney diseases while pursuing her Doctorate in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Ahsana shares her remarkable journey from being the first woman in her family to study medicine to leading large-scale healthcare programmes in Pakistan. She reflects on the challenges of digital transformation in rural healthcare, building trust through partnerships, and navigating leadership as a woman in complex cultural and professional settings.
We explore how vision, resilience, and mentorship can transform systems and how data, innovation, and collaboration can strengthen global health for the future.
If you are a health leader passionate about equity, impact, and system change, this episode will leave you inspired by what is possible when courage meets compassion.
Contact Ahsana
ahsananazish80@gmail.com
Reflective Practice Questions
- How does your personal leadership journey influence the systems you choose to change?
- What barriers — cultural, organisational, or internal — have shaped your leadership, and how have you navigated them?
- Where could deeper partnership working strengthen the impact of your current projects?
- How might evidence and data support your next leadership decision?
- What does courage look like in your context at this moment in your career?
If you’re interested in exploring coaching or learning more about leadership in healthcare, visit my website, where you’ll find a wealth of resources tailored to medical and public health professionals. Sign up for my newsletter to receive 3 hours of free CPD through the Health Career Success Programme and access a range of articles, tools, and guides to support your career journey.
Dr Fiona Day is able to help you thrive like no one else. She is the only Coaching Psychologist in the world with a background in medicine and public health. Her coaching practice is grounded in evidence. Over ten systematic reviews demonstrate the benefits of workplace coaching. Coaching psychology, the science of potential, performance, and wellbeing, has an even greater impact. Book a free confidential 30 minute Consultation with Fiona here.
