Welcoming Grazina Berry, new Overcoming MS CEO | S2E19

On this episode of the Living Well with MS podcast, we welcome Grazina Berry the new CEO of Overcoming MS. Grazina is passionate, driven and committed to making a positive difference to the lives of all communities and helping Overcoming MS achieve its goal to reach everyone diagnosed with MS around the world. 

Topics and timestamps:

01:10 Can you tell our audience and the Overcoming MS community a bit about yourself personally so we can get to know you? 

03:23 You’ve held senior leadership roles at other charities, most recently as CEO of the Aplastic Anaemia Trust. What challenges have you encountered so far? 

06:18 What’s your personal philosophy on the place a charity like Overcoming MS should have in the communities it serves? 

07:14 What do you think Overcoming MS offers to people with MS? 

08:56 What are some of the challenges in your new role at Overcoming MS in terms of continuing the work it does, but also charting a new direction for the future?  

10:16 What opportunities would you like to embrace and explore in your early tenure at OMS? 

14:11 If you were to look ahead, where would you like to see Overcoming MS in a few years’ time? 

14:42 Is there a big difference in running a charity that’s in the MS space against some of the other areas that you’ve worked in before? 

15:49 What are you most excited about in your new role as the Overcoming MS CEO?  

16:17 Can you share something from your life that happened to you that left you thinking, “oh wow, we live in an amazing world”? 

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• About The Aplastic Anaemia Trust 
• About Overcoming MS
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