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

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Former BioPharma Talent Leader. Organizational Psychology expert. Career strategist 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. That's where my Master's in Organizational Psychology stopped being theory and started being a diagnostic tool.

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.

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