for high achieving Women Working in Pharma and Biotech
The Exception: Be the Leader Pharma and Biotech Can't Overlook.
A live training for women already in pharma and biotech who want to answer what's next, get a new job, a promotion, or to be a confident and exceptional leader.
SEPTEMBER 22 TIME: 11:00am ET Zoom
Your Guide: Melissa Lawrence, former Pharma Talent Development Leader | M.A. Organizational Psychology | Best-Selling Author | CEO & Founder, Your Worthy Career®
What's actually keeping you stuck?
It's not always the most qualified woman in the room who gets promoted.
It's the one who knows how to position her value in the way this industry rewards.
You've watched it happen. Someone with less experience, a shorter track record, fewer results than you — and they get the role. The visibility. The opportunity you've been positioning yourself for.
This is a solvable problem. And the solution has nothing to do with the market, the timing, or how good your boss is.
It has everything to do with three specific things almost no one in this industry teaches — because they don't have the insider strategy or they are looking out for the company's best interest, not yours.
This training is where you find out which area(s) are holding you back from the career growth you desire.
This for you if:
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It's probably for you if...
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You're a woman in pharma or biotech at the Principal Scientist, Manager, Associate Director, or Director level — and something feels off. You're undervalued, underleveraged, or unclear on what comes next.
You're ready to do an honest diagnosis — so you can address the root cause.
You want to be told what to do without doing the diagnostic work yourself.
You're looking for resume tips, LinkedIn hacks, or interview scripts.
You're early in your career and still building foundational experience.
You're exploring pharma roles, but don't work in pharma or biotech yet.
You're tired of generic career advice that wasn't built for this industry, this leadership, or this market.
You've done everything right — the degrees, the results, the extra work — and you're still not where you expected to be by now.
Hi, I’m
The difference between career coaching and insider knowledge.
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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What women in Pharma and Biotech achieve when they implement what you'll learn:
Real women. Real roles. Real results.
Quality Assurance
Katherine identified her dream job and got promoted.
"Working with Melissa has helped me drive the impact I want to have in my career. I used to be chronically indecisive; now, I make decisions with ease. I am experiencing unprecedented wins every week. Melissa's unique coaching style has completely transformed the way I show up to (and outside of) work."
-Katherine
Principal Scientist, Process Dev.
Brena Tapped into new leadership praise.
"I'm confident in my decision making. I'm carrying myself differently as I talk to my own core leadership in the company. Both my CEO and my direct manager have seen the idea of leadership potential in me. I'm literally getting the ability to do all of the things I've asked."
-Brena
Immunology Leader
Christina got 2 competing offers for promoted roles.
"Working with Melissa helped me get two competing job offers after being impacted by a layoff. I realized that ultimately I am in control of achieving the results I want from my career. Not my boss, not my coworkers, not my team."
-Christina
Alliance Management
Swathi moved out of the lab and into office management.
"Working with Melissa, I now understand my work style, and equipped with the tools to be effective with other work styles; know my anchor points for success in the chosen career path; successfully transitioned into business and management space with great excitement for what is to come."
-Swathi
Ready?
The market or your company is not the variable that determines your outcome. Your strategy is.
Live training with certified expert, author, and pharma and biotech insider.
