Nigeria Signature Leadership Journey for Women 2025 (Fully-funded)

WomenLift Health, in partnership with the Women in Leadership Advancement Network (WILAN), is launching the inaugural Nigeria Leadership Journey.

In this fully-funded, 12-month Leadership Journey, they provide mid-career women the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.

Program Details

The Signature Leadership Journey is a transformational learning and development experience that brings together mid to senior career women working across multiple disciplines, fields, and sectors in health. This Journey is aimed at creating the mindset shift needed to solve complex challenges that we are facing in global public health today. The program imparts contextualized tools and frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in public and global health face today.

Participants engage in two in-person experiential learning residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), in addition to virtual learning touchpoints, virtual group mentoring, virtual one-on-one coaching sessions, and importantly, a self-directed leadership project – all the while being supported by their Leadership Journey community and experts in the health sector. Alumnae will be part of a lifelong network of allies at local, regional, and global levels who continue to support each other and new cohort members (for example, as mentors) and to advocate for women’s leadership.

Costs of Leadership Journey

• The program is free (all program costs, including travel and lodging, are covered).

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Eligibility for Leadership Journey

• Applicant must identify as a woman.
• Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national level in Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)
• Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health.
• Reside and work within Nigeria.
• Must be a national of Nigeria.
• Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey.

They require participants to be living in the West Africa Standard Time for at least 75% of the program as they believe time zone compatibility is essential to your ability to participate at the touchpoints and to engage with your peers within and outside of the sessions. WomenLift Health is committed to selecting diverse cohort members, representing different sectors (public, private, academia, NGO, philanthropy, Research and development), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds.

Also Check : Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) Fellowship Program 2025-2026 (Fully-funded)

Application

The 2025 Nigeria Leadership Journey will take place from June 2025 – April 2026. Before applying, check the dates and timing of the sessions to ensure that you would be able to attend all touchpoints. All touchpoints are mandatory to attend while the JourneyPLUS events are optional. The in-person residences involving travel include the 3-day Immersion (25 -27 August, 2025) and the 2-day Lift-Off (9 & 10 April, 2026).

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