Having just commemorated its 70^th anniversary, leading healthcare company VIVIAN established a new concept, rooted in decades of expertise, experience and a strong professional network. “Vivian Academy is all about empowerment; empowering our own people, our partners in the industry, our stakeholders and our wider communities for more informed healthcare,” say HANNAH CREMONA, strategic lead advisor of this project and YAN GRIMA, General Manager at Vivian.

VIVIAN is a long-standing healthcare company with seventy years’ experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. The company thrives through the constant nurturing of relationships with all its stakeholders especially healthcare professionals, and pharmacy, laboratory and clinic owners in both the private and public sectors.

“We have extensive knowledge to share, and we believe that through this knowledge, the Academy will not only ensure that the public is better informed, but we will also be contributing to a more informed and therefore, a stronger industry,” explains Hannah.

“In fact, we thoroughly feel that empowered and informed patients are more likely to have a clean bill of health and more positive health outcomes,” added Yan.

Hannah continued to explain “As leaders in contributing to public health awareness over the decades it is only natural for the company to want to formalise its efforts, expertise and network through this academy. In fact, Vivian Academy is being built on three empowerment pillars: its people, its partners and stakeholders and the general public.”

Through the Vivian Academy, the company will continue to invest and offer all its employees with personal and professional development through various group training, workshops, coaching and mentorship.

“We look at this initiative as a vehicle to nurture more pride and loyalty in our team,” added Yan.

“However, considerable investment is also dedicated each year to empowering and educating our frontline partners namely the doctors and pharmacists, with whom we have a very special rapport. In the near future, in fact, this initiative will also be extended to our distribution partners.”

“Finally, Vivian Academy brings together its professional network of experts, and in-house expertise to fill knowledge gaps to the public with workshops and courses. We aim to become a hub of empowerment.”

Vivian Academy will seek to become an accredited centre for Continued Professional Development (CPD) for various healthcare professionals.

Vivian’s maxim ‘Together through Life’ reflects the company’s work and the products it delivers alongside the support and empowerment of people at all stages of their life.

“Now, the Vivian Academy is the next level of empowerment, driven by our philosophy that the more informed people are, the better their decisions, which is crucial especially when it comes to healthcare,” added Hannah.

“Vivian Academy may be ‘new’ as an academy however it is rooted in a history rich in educating, empowering and engaging all concerned stakeholders at every level before and beyond our everyday work,” she concluded.