A Visionary Expert in Shaping Women's Leadership Success
in Life Sciences Organizations
Dr. Zoran M. Pavlovic is a psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience in clinical research, pharmaceuticals, mental health and consultancy on psychiatry and neurology drug development and seven years of experience in leadership coaching, training and mentoring. He earned his MD and Board Certification in Psychiatry from the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Additionally, Dr. Pavlovic is a certified wellness and recovery coach by the Academy of Executive Coaching and certified executive coach by the Henley Business School. He also holds the International Coaching Federation (ICF) ACC credential. He is also a Fellow at the Institute of Coaching, McLean, Affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
His expertise extends into the corporate and life science sectors, where he offers exclusively designed leadership coaching programs for aspiring and current women leaders. Among these is his flagship 4H SWELL (States of Wellness) Well-Being and Self-Care Women Leadership Development Program, which emphasizes women leaders in the life sciences well-being across four key dimensions: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Health (Physical and Mental), Financial Health and Well-Being, and Inner and External Harmony.
Dr. Pavlovic has also created several branded, women-only leadership development programs including HEALS-4ME, focusing on building holistic, entrepreneurial, agile, and self-leadership mindsets, and the LEAD-STYCSKILLS program, which supports development of authentic and positive leadership styles and enhances. essential leadership competencies and skills.
He is the inventor of the 4S (stages) Leadership Development Mind Map a four-phase program. Each phase is carefully crafted to ensure holistic growth and long-term impact:
Step 1:
Highly Interactive Training: This phase delivers immersive, interactive training sessions that lay foundation for leadership competencies and skills focusing on practical applications and immediate engagement.
Step 2:
1-1 Coaching and Mentoring: The participants receive individualized support tailored to their unique challenges and aspirations through personalized coaching and mentoring, fostering deeper insights and leadership confidence.
Step 3:
Self-Coaching and Self-Mentoring: In this self-guided phase, participants develop self-coaching and self-mentoring skills, empowering them to sustain their growth proactively and independently by practicing self-reflection, journaling, and self-motivation.
Step 4:
Micro-Training, Micro-Coaching, and Micro-Mentoring: To ensure the program's long-term effectiveness, this phase provides ongoing, bite-sized coaching, training, and mentoring sessions customized for specific upcoming challenging situations in the workplace. These micro-interventions reinforce learning and support continuous leadership development well beyond the program's end.
This phased approach ensures that participants not only gain specific leadership mindsets, competencies, and skills but also integrate, maintain, and enhance them, thus boosting their long-lasting success and progress so they can thrive in their leadership careers.
With over a decade of meditation practice and training on the Mindfulness tools at the Center for Mindfulness Medical Center University of Massachusetts, Dr. Pavlovic integrates contemporary secular with ancient Buddhist mindfulness practice. This holistic method addresses individual and organizational challenges, fostering grit, resilience, self- and other compassion and growth mindsets.
Dr. Pavlovic consults with organizations specifically on management of the chronic stress and burnout prevention. He is an expert in the field of neuroscience-based training, coaching, self-coaching and mentoring and serves on the editorial boards of esteemed journals like Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment.
As an accomplished writer, Dr. Pavlovic shares insights on platforms such as Forbes Coaches Council, Life Science Leader, Brainz Magazine and Institute of Coaching McLean Affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Through his company, Heruka Lifesciences & Health Innovations, he continues to transform the lives of high potential female employees (HIPOs), emerging, first-time and senior women leaders in the lifesciences industry.
