Leadership amid uncertainty — guide for migrapreneurs facing Covid-19

Usman Iftikhar
Catalysr
Published in
7 min readApr 8, 2020

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Covid-19 has engulfed the whole world in a very short-period of time. It has come with health and financial challenges for everyone, and has particularly hit hard at elderly people, other disadvantaged groups and those who are immunocompromised.

I have personally lost friends and family members across the globe to this deadly virus and came very close to catching it myself a few weeks ago.

Almost every news source is talking about it and everyone has become an overnight expert in epidemiology. In Australia in particular, there’s also been a lot of confusion because of the quickly changing nature of advice by various states & territories, often conflicting with the advice of the federal Government — alongside a maze of new support packages for individuals/families/business etc.

If you’re a migrapreneur in Australia, like myself, you are probably fighting through grief, anxiety, other health & financial challenges.

Our whole team at Catalysr started self-isolating and went fully remote from early March. We have also moved all our existing and new programs at Catalysr online — with the aim to keep as much of the same user-experience and support as possible in these uncertain times.

So I wanted to write a guide to share how I have been answering the following questions that are coming up for me as we have been navigating this journey thus far.

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Usman Iftikhar
Catalysr

CEO at Catalysr| Head of Growth & Partnerships at SpaceBase| 2020 Stanford GSB alum| 2019 Obama Leader Asia Pacific| 2018 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year