Kaja has a had a wonderful career journey that has led to to her current role in Singapore as the Asia Pacific-Japan Regional President of Organon. She has come to the region on the back of highly successful years in diverse working and geographical environments. Her ambition for the role is to improve the health of #women in big and small ways through effective policy making and strategic leadership on critical issues for the lives and health of women. Her leadership style focuses on creating a highly engaged and mission-focused organization with an emphasis on employee development.

Kaja’s journey in healthcare has taken her from the entry level through to a leading management role. She joined MSD in 1996 in Norway as a medical representative and went on to lead Commercial Operations at MSD Russia, become a Managing Director, first at MSD South Africa and then at MSD Netherlands, and held the role of Vice President and Human Health Strategy Lead immediately prior to her move to Organon.

Kaja has a demonstrable track record of success in each of her previous roles. She has overseen sustainable access innovations, the creation of enterprise initiatives as well as a commercial pillar in vaccines, and enormous growth in the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases space, Institutional Business in Africa, and MSD’s success in becoming the fastest growing pharmaceutical company in South Africa.

I am honoured to share her inspiring career story full of wonderful advice, strength, vulnerability and the cheat codes to be able to feel confident to take control of your career. Connect with Kaja here - she will be pleased to hear from you. Just mention this podcast.

If you are a leader in life science or STEM and would like to share your career journey, I would be delighted to interview you.

In addition to this, if you are stuck, have a blocker of some kind, are unsure of what to do next, I am happy to support you to overcome what ever it is that you face in your career. Everyone deserves to love what they do and I can help you pave the way to get there whether you are an individual, part of an association or a cohort in a small to medium start up, let's connect!

I am taking on new clients for Group coaching and/or 121 coaching irrespective of your location across the globe.

Here is where you can find me : jo@protoscience.com.au

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jomccatty/

Happy to connect with you, get to know you and add value to your life through helping you with your career.

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