AI is Reshaping Pharma. The Women Advancing Aren’t Doing What You’d Expect.

I’ve been learning AI tools this year. Deliberately, with a specific goal: to eliminate administrative and routine tasks on the back-end of my business so I can create more human touch-points. To protect my voice, my thinking, and the relationships that are at the center of this work.

And here’s what I’ve discovered in the process: the faster the technical layer moves, the more the human layer matters.

That’s the conversation most people in industry are missing right now.

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I Don’t Want to Ask for Help

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Questions to Ask Before Looking for a New Job

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(MVP) How to Know if You’re Underpaid

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Application Red Flags

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Former BioPharma Talent Leader. Organizational Psychology expert. Career Coach for women in industry. Best-Selling Author of Your Worthy Career: A Science-Backed Method to Build a Meaningful Career in Pharma and Biotech.

Six years ago I left a 12-year career in Pharma and Biotech to build something that didn't exist: a coaching practice designed specifically for the women I used to work alongside.

I spent over a decade in Talent and Organizational Development inside global companies — AstraZeneca, Human Genome Sciences, and Emergent BioSolutions — watching how decisions about people were actually made inside real organizations, across real teams, inside real Pharma and Biotech culture. 

I heard the war stories nobody puts on paper. The patterns nobody names out loud. The reasons promotions happen, and the reasons they don't.

And I was also one of the women being talked about. I exceeded expectations and watched the path stall anyway. I did everything I was supposed to do — the degrees, the programs, the work — and still sat with the question of whether it was ever going to add up to what I actually wanted.

I know what is said when the room closes. Because I was in the room. And I know what it feels like to be the woman they are talking about. Because I was her.

Now I use my 8 years in government, combined 18 years working with Pharma and Biotech and the neuroscience behind organizational psychology to help you become the exception.

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