The Your Worthy Career® Podcast
For women in the Pharma and Biotech Industry
If you're someone who wants to find out just how good your career can get and how much of a difference you can make in this industry, you're in the right place.
Welcome to Your Worthy Career, the podcast for women building meaningful, high-impact careers in pharma and biotech.
New episodes the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month.
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This is where I break down how careers in pharma and biotech actually work. I write about the hidden rules of promotion, why working harder stopped moving you forward, and how to position yourself so the right people finally notice. Insider strategy, backed by research, for the woman who is ready to strategically grow.
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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.
