In this Wicked & Agile Interview, we'll be speaking with Jehan Al Fannah to examine Agility in action in hospitals in the Middle East during COVID.
Jehan Al Fannah currently defines her profession as a transdisciplinary practitioner. She started her career in the healthcare sector in Oman as a clinical pharmacist and worked closely with sick children, their parents, and a diverse group of healthcare providers. Later in her career she moved into healthcare organizational performance improvement, sustainability, quality, and patient safety.
Professionally, Jehan is passionate about breaking boundaries beyond the scope of a defined profession. Transdisciplinary practice is about dealing with the complexity of a daily professional life in the knowledge era. It is about overcoming the compartmentalization of knowledge that creates boundaries to integrated problem solving. Healthcare especially, is one of the most complex work environments. It oversees the birth and demise of human beings all in one day and the dilemmas of the in-between. This calls for agility, creativity, imagination, stretching our professional expertise and challenging our lifelong assumptions and personal values.
Outside the professional world, Jehan is passionate about hiking, climbing, canyoning and abseiling the vast mountains! They remind her of using her physical intelligence beyond the scope of the cognitive intelligence of the knowledge era, to handle pain, scarcity and to toughen up!
Curious about how Agile can serve our local communities? I am interviewing Jehan about her Wicked Problems to help make transparent where Agilists can serve and support our local communities.
About Wicked & Agile Interviews:
We meet with key Agilists and Leaders – like Jehan Al Fannah – making big impact in their communities to learn valuable and inspiring insights through the personal experiences they share with us.
The vision of the interviews is to provide an understanding of how agile can help our communities and corporations in Wicked Problems and for our community and corporation leaders to help Agilists understand how they chip away at gnarly Wicked Problems.
At the end of each interview, our guests share their top Wicked Wisdoms.