Name: How to Build Bullet-Proof Resilience and Wellbeing (AMER)
Start: 2025-07-16T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-16T20:00:00+01:00

RL-Asma-Ali-How-to-build-bullet-proof-resilience-and-wellbeing - WeQual

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Stress happens. Thriving despite stress isn’t luck; it’s a skill.

Discover how small, simple changes can help you handle stress, boost your resilience and prioritize your wellbeing.

Guest speaker: Asma Ali, Head of US Established Products, Sanofi

Asma brings over two decades of experience in the healthcare industry and a personal passion for patient care. She’s led teams through transformation, managed stress in high-pressure environments, and knows how to set boundaries to protect what matters most. Her journey from pharmacist to executive gives her a grounded, people-first approach to wellbeing and resilience.

You’ll learn:

How to manage stress

Easy habits to boost your wellbeing

How to recover quickly when things go wrong

Tips to balance work and life, including how to say ‘no’!

Make these tips part of your daily routine. Both you and your team will benefit.

Asma Ali

Sanofi

Head of US Established Products

Asma Ali is the Head of US Established Products at Sanofi, where she leads the strategy, operations, digital marketing, and go-to-market transformation for a diverse portfolio of mature products across therapeutic areas, including diabetes, oncology, neurology, and osteoarthritis.

Since joining Sanofi in 2021, Asma has held several leadership roles, including within the US Market Access, Trade and Channel Management organization and the US General Medicines leadership team. She has been instrumental in driving digital innovation and business transformation across both specialty care and general medicines, enhancing access and improving experiences for patients, prescribers, and healthcare providers.

With over 25 years in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, Asma brings deep expertise in developing patient support programs, market access strategies, digital solutions, and data-driven insights. Her career began as an independent pharmacy owner and continued as a Walgreens pharmacist, fueling a lifelong commitment to patient-centered care.

Asma holds an MBA from the University of Oklahoma and is a licensed pharmacist in multiple states, having earned her pharmacy degree from The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. She’s also a proud Longhorn.

Outside of work, Asma lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey, with her husband Mir, their three children Ahsan, Yaseen, and Aisha, and their two cats, Aloo and Gobi. She is an active member of her local community and has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations.

Ovin Mohan

WeQual

Director of Leadership Development

Ovin Mohan has coached over 1000 senior leaders representing the world’s largest companies. As a result, he is recognized as a “Brilliant” (CPO – JustEat), “Exceptional” (CTO – Prologis), and “Amazing” (CFO – Holcim) Executive Coach.

He has created award-winning coaching programs for Apple and received five-star feedback from 360-degree Coaching at Christie’s for leaders C-suite -2. He is a guest lecturer on various MSc programs focusing on strategic leadership development. He advises on a Board that informs the training for the leading coaching training company in the US. Ovin has led large-scale leadership development programs for NATO, the NHS, Barclays, and HSBC and has lived and worked in Chicago, NYC, Valencia, and London.

He was previously Head of Leadership Development, managing the largest CMI centre in the UK, delivering and assessing leadership capabilities up to PhD level. He also designed the curriculum for the Institute of Leadership and Management at L7 (MSc equivalent), which received an “Outstanding” award from ILM.

As a former athlete, in both martial arts and football, his approach to leadership development is driven by teaching deliberate practice of tools, providing feedback to refine those skills, and holding the highest standard of competitive accountability. This is further strengthened by his master’s in occupational psychology.

Emma Hicks

WeQual

VP of Memberships and Programs

Emma is an experienced strategic leader, specializing in professional development at C-suite and senior management levels. With a track record for delivering solutions across a broad range of global sectors and industries, Emma brings a wealth of experience and a deep passion for continuing professional development.

Emma is a Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Learning Performance Institute (LPI), holds certifications from the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Association for Talent Development (ATD), and is a former Education Committee member at the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa).

Outside of WeQual, Emma has a young family (8-year-old Joshua, 6-year-old Jasmine, and a recent ‘furbaby’ addition, Monty the cockapoo), who keep her equally busy, active and above all grateful.