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When we talk about wellness for women leaders, it’s not as simple as a self-care night.
Studies from Harvard Business School, Wharton, and more have shown that C-Suite stress literally reduces leaders’ lifespans — sometimes by as much as 3–5 years. And that number doesn’t factor in additional stress that comes along with caregiving, fertility, or menopause.
For women in senior leadership roles longevity and wellbeing requires a conversation beyond just “women’s healthcare” and “executive healthcare.”
That’s why Alina Ioani and our partners at Prenuvo are rethinking what it means to take charge of your health. They’re expanding the conversation around preventative care with their whole body scans, helping customers move beyond annual checkups toward what she calls being "the CEO of your own health."
Alina Ioani
We asked Ioani, Prenuvo’s Head of Partnerships, about the ecosystem she’s building to drive this systemic shift in healthcare, her advice for other women leaders navigating their own health and wellness decisions, and her personal pivot to purpose-driven work:
You lead partnerships at Prenuvo. Strategic partnerships with other healthcare services like Parsley Health, Sollis Heath, and Cenegenics have made Prenuvo’s full-body MRI scans more accessible while helping partners provide more comprehensive care. What is your approach for building strong partnerships in a way that benefits your customer?
Enacting a systemic change to our healthcare system does not happen overnight, nor does it happen in isolation. Our current healthcare system has spent the better part of the 20th century building infrastructure and incentive structures around treating disease rather than preventing it. Rewiring this takes more than offering a great product. This takes an ecosystem of partners equally committed to a different future of health.
Prenuvo’s offering — a proactive whole body MRI completed in under an hour — gives people an easy, safe and comprehensive approach to their health. Over the last four years, I’ve watched a genuine groundswell build around that approach. It wasn’t just patients embracing this technology, but institutions and organizations well beyond healthcare and wellness companies. Our partners span firefighter communities, employers, financial institutions, gyms, fitness brands, and professional sporting organizations. Collectively, they share something critical: a population that cares deeply about health and vitality.
On the clinical partnership side, our partners integrate our scans because they are already operating with a holistic philosophy. Prenuvo becomes the imaging backbone giving their physicians a powerful baseline, often before symptoms appear.
Across these partnerships, our approach is the same: alignment with our mission before everything else. We believe information is power and that the Prenuvo exam is the physical of the future.
What compounding factors and stressors make women leaders’ healthcare a different conversation than just ‘women’s healthcare’ or ‘executive healthcare’? How do those factors change the way that senior women leaders should approach their health and wellness strategy?
Senior women executives are confronted with several factors that create additional stress, such as motherhood and menopause. Pregnancy, postpartum, and then managing a family schedule require adjustments to the way we have traditionally managed our lives and work. Menopause is a highly complex, multi-year phase in a woman's life that affects sleep, sharpness, and hormonal shifts. These can impact their work output and how they manage their work. How do we handle it all? We do our best and adjust accordingly. For me, it’s important that I give myself the time and resources to ensure I am at my best. My advice is to build a great team to support you at home and at work. Keep yourself fit and sleep as much as you can. Make home time very intentional as best you can. All of this is easier said than done, but will help you keep up at least in my experience.
What misconception about the influence of women’s careers on their health is most prevalent? And given this opportunity to correct it on-the-record, what advice would you offer instead?
This is an interesting question. I think the main misconception is that demanding careers affect women’s health, including fertility, mental health issues, and burnout. But the research shows that employed women have better health outcomes than women who feel socially isolated. Working ensures financial independence and increases personal satisfaction. I know for me, my career has brought me much satisfaction.
How does your focus on preventative care meaningfully shift the conversation around wellness and longevity for women executives?
Preventative healthcare is truly a lifeline for all executives. It puts the power in their hands. As I have mentioned, information is vital for keeping everything on track. It allows us to come up with a game plan to ensure we stay on track. It allows us to be the CEO of our own health!
Longevity is so crucial — but it’s also being co-opted as a buzzword. For a busy executive trying to make the right decision for their health, what filter do you use to distinguish between ‘B.S.’ and ‘life-changing’?
Well, we need to do our homework. We have to ask ourselves what is scientifically proven? With Prenuvo, you have actual pictures of your body inside out. And you have the ability to speak to a medical professional about those results directly. When trying to suss out services that claim they are the next fountain of youth, read the details, find studies that show results, ask your medical professionals what they think of them. A core principle of preventative healthcare is putting the patient in charge. That agency also puts the onus on the patient to really do their homework.
You worked across law and finance before joining the team at Prenuvo. When did you know it was time to pivot, and what drew you to the health and wellness industry?
I enjoyed the many years I worked in law and finance in Paris and later San Francisco, but there was a time when I looked up and asked, “What’s next?” I came to a point in my life where the thrill of closing billion-dollar deals no longer seemed to fulfill me. Throughout my career, I’ve seen so many women taking charge of meetings, projects, and companies, but I realized that we don’t often do the same with our health. I found myself thinking not just about my career trajectory, but more about my body, my longevity, and my presence for the people I love. That’s when I joined Prenuvo. The mission deeply resonated with me — to be empowered and active agents in our own health. We have built an entire healthcare ecosystem around treating late-stage disease after it has already disrupted your life. Prenuvo is challenging that notion and betting on something fundamentally different: to catch conditions before they become a crisis. That’s the kind of mission I wanted to be a part of.
At Chief, we say, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.' What role has community played in your career journey?
I am a big believer in making connections. While these networks are crucial to the success of my career, I see them more as a way to build community. Many of the partners we’ve worked with have stayed part of our community and many women have come together to support one another.
At Prenuvo, that philosophy has played out in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. Some of our most powerful growth hasn’t come from traditional sales channels — it’s come from people who have experienced the scan, believed in what it meant, and used their voices to bring others in. It’s thanks to these high-reach voices that has made the community and movement around Prenuvo so powerful.
For me, this is the icing on the cake. Working with people and learning from them is the best part of the job!
