The Human CEO: Trauma-Informed and Empathetic Leadership
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24-Mar-2026
Leadership today demands more than strategy and performance. It requires presence, emotional intelligence, and the courage to lead with humanity.
Join us for a transformative session where YPOers will explore how trauma awareness and empathy are not “soft skills” but essential capabilities for future-ready leaders. The conversation will examine how stress, emotional fatigue, and unresolved adversity quietly shape executive decision-making, culture, and performance, and how these same challenges can become catalysts for post-traumatic growth. Discover how leaders can build resilient, psychologically safe, and high-performing organizations rooted in trust, accountability, and authentic connection.
You will exit this session with:
• Deeper insight into the emotional realities shaping leadership today.
• Practical strategies for cultivating resilient, engaged teams.
• Tools to identify burnout and strengthen emotional intelligence at scale.
• Frameworks that turn empathy into performance and presence into growth.
About the Speaker:
Navlika Ratangee is a GIBS MBA graduate and has completed Executive Education at Harvard Business School. She was recognized as one of Africa’s Top 10 Leaders to Follow in 2024 by CIO Views. Under her leadership, Lyra Southern Africa has earned multiple national awards for diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as industry recognition in health and pharmaceutical services.
Navlika’s approach blends psychological insight with strategic execution, empowering leaders to cultivate resilience, foresight, and adaptive thinking in an increasingly complex world.
Build the leadership skills today’s world demands.
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