Kyobutungi reflects on the things she considers to be an indicator of success for her leadership at APHRC

At #DDwithMaqC™, leaders and practitioners in the development, global health, impact investing, human rights, social justice fields share their stories, journeys, inspirations, and aspirations in life and careers. The unscripted auto-biographical approach allows for deep reflections on lessons and issues. One conversation at a time, one story at a time, we amplify unsung voices and experiences, share solutions, and causes, provide examples and insights that explain and humanize development in a way that helps “us” and “others” to “get it” or “plug-in”, as relevant.

Dr. Catherine speaks on how #APHRC has communicated, modeled and drove institutional culture change

At #DDwithMaqC™, leaders and practitioners in the development, global health, impact investing, human rights, social justice fields share their stories, journeys, inspirations, and aspirations in life and careers. The unscripted auto-biographical approach allows for deep reflections on lessons and issues. One conversation at a time, one story at a time, we amplify unsung voices and experiences, share solutions, and causes, provide examples and insights that explain and humanize development in a way that helps “us” and “others” to “get it” or “plug-in”, as relevant.

Dr. Catherine discusses the organizational shift that #APHRC undertook towards achieving a workforce that appreciates work-life balance, speaks up and maintains excellence althrough.

A chance 360 feedback and leadership coaching session to assume my role as ED revealed to me my 3 phases of leadership and what needed to happen to next (at an individual and organizational level)

At #DDwithMaqC™, leaders and practitioners in the development, global health, impact investing, human rights, social justice fields share their stories, journeys, inspirations, and aspirations in life and careers. The unscripted auto-biographical approach allows for deep reflections on lessons and issues. One conversation at a time, one story at a time, we amplify unsung voices and experiences, share solutions, and causes, provide examples and insights that explain and humanize development in a way that helps “us” and “others” to “get it” or “plug-in”, as relevant.

Catherine narrates the lead up to her becoming the Executive Director at APHRC

At #DDwithMaqC™, leaders and practitioners in the development, global health, impact investing, human rights, social justice fields share their stories, journeys, inspirations, and aspirations in life and careers. The unscripted auto-biographical approach allows for deep reflections on lessons and issues. One conversation at a time, one story at a time, we amplify unsung voices and experiences, share solutions, and causes, provide examples and insights that explain and humanize development in a way that helps “us” and “others” to “get it” or “plug-in”, as relevant.

Dr Catherine reminsces about the different phases of her leadership journey. In this phase, she explains that much as she was growing in her leadership and metrics were showing success in many ways for the organization, the pressure got to her and she became no-non-sense and closed her self out.

Dr Catherine reminsces about the different phases of her leadership journey. In this phase, she was kind and firm, yet honest. She gives very interesting examples of how this played out.

Kyobutungi explains how while busy leading the Health theme at APHRC, she also let go of research practice and focused more on research leadership.

At #DDwithMaqC™, leaders and practitioners in the development, global health, impact investing, human rights, social justice fields share their stories, journeys, inspirations, and aspirations in life and careers. The unscripted auto-biographical approach allows for deep reflections on lessons and issues. One conversation at a time, one story at a time, we amplify unsung voices and experiences, share solutions, and causes, provide examples and insights that explain and humanize development in a way that helps “us” and “others” to “get it” or “plug-in”, as relevant.

Funders fund people, places and projects - Kyobutungio explains the challenges she and APHRC have had to overcome and how they've built in lessons from these to get good success in research funding as an institution over the years.

Journey back with Dr. Catherine on how she built her research portfolio around non-communicable diseases and became established as a leading researcher in that area.

At #DDwithMaqC™, leaders and practitioners in the development, global health, impact investing, human rights, social justice fields share their stories, journeys, inspirations, and aspirations in life and careers. The unscripted auto-biographical approach allows for deep reflections on lessons and issues. One conversation at a time, one story at a time, we amplify unsung voices and experiences, share solutions, and causes, provide examples and insights that explain and humanize development in a way that helps “us” and “others” to “get it” or “plug-in”, as relevant.