Name: The Keys to Success in Any Role (EMEA)
Start: 2025-10-16T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-16T12:00:00+01:00

EMEA

Success isn’t tied to a title—it’s about how you show up, adapt, and create value wherever you are. In today’s fast-changing world, succeeding means thinking globally, acting strategically, and reframing challenges as opportunities.

Join Natacha Theytaz, Executive at Novartis and WeQual EMEA Award Winner (President Category, 2025). A seasoned board member and senior executive, Natacha has led complex businesses through crises. Previously in leadership at Roche, she has built trust at board level and transformed global assurance and risk functions.

Natacha is recognized for courageous leadership, integrity, and her ability to transform organizations while developing the next generation of talent. A competitive triathlete, she brings the same resilience and performance mindset from sport into business.

What to Expect

Hour One: Natacha’s candid lessons, crisis-tested leadership insights, and live Q&A on resilience, transformation, and values-driven decision-making.

Hour Two: Peer breakout sessions to reflect, exchange perspectives, and apply takeaways directly to your own role.

Key Takeaways

Embrace continuous learning to stay adaptable

Seek and use feedback to accelerate growth

Stretch beyond your comfort zones with confidence

Reframe problems to unlock new solutions

Build resilience in the face of change

Know when to say yes —and when to say no

Walk away with practical tools, real-world wisdom, and renewed confidence to succeed in any role—no matter your industry or stage.

Natacha Theytaz

Novartis

Executive

Natacha Theytaz is a purpose-driven senior executive and board member with over two decades of leadership across Switzerland’s largest multinationals. Most recently, she served as Country President Türkiye for Novartis, leading a CHF 600 m business with 2000 employees through crises such as hyperinflation and earthquakes.

With an open invitation to the Global Executive Committee of Novartis, as Global Head of Business Assurance & Advisory and acting Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer, she has shaped governance at the highest level. Earlier, at Roche, she transformed global risk and assurance functions, establishing trusted partnerships with boards and executives.

Beyond corporate roles, she has chaired audit committees, steered organizations through COVID-19 disruptions, and contributed to economic and healthcare reforms through board mandates.

Recognized with the WeQual EMEA Award (President category, 2025), she is known for her courageous leadership, integrity, and ability to transform organizations while developing the next generation of talent. A competitive triathlete, she brings the same resilience and performance mindset from sport into business.

Emma Hicks

WeQual

VP of Memberships & 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.

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.