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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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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Your Worthy Career® has 200+ episodes for women in Pharma and Biotech who want more from their careers. Hosted by Melissa Lawrence, Certified Career and Leadership Coach with 15+ years in the industry, the show shares insider strategies to get clear on your next move, land promotions, and lead with confidence.

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The WORTHY method is grounded in organizational psychology and years of coaching results inside this industry. It is a six-component framework that develops the external strategy (direction, positioning, visibility, and relationships) and the internal leadership (how you communicate, how you lead, how you own your value) at the same time.

Most career development addresses one side. This builds both. That is what changes your trajectory and turns the visible path into your hidden door.

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