Leading a biotech organization can be described by some as complex, intriguing, transformational, stressful, and impactful. Sounds like a lot to manage, doesn’t it? Those who fill leadership roles in these organizations are tasked with going up against challenges and facing situations that are not fluid across all industries. Biotech can involve clinical trials, drug development, medical equipment, and a plethora of other aspects within the industry.

Building a tight-knit, strong, healthy company culture presents its challenges in environments where people work face to face together. With the Pandemic in 2020, it caused us to challenge our company structures by adapting to a remote-work team dynamic. With remote-work as the new norm, leaders across the globe are facing new challenges as it pertains to maintaining company culture. However, when those challenges are met, leaders and their teams typically experience a thriving company culture where productivity improves, innovation blossoms, and customer satisfaction increases very quickl

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In working with a variety of leaders, a handful will still sometimes roll their eyes when you bring up mental health awareness in the workplace, while others smile, nodd, and champion the movement. 

It’s not easy to jump into a leadership position, especially if it is your first time in a leadership role. As a woman, the challenges that come with being in a leadership position can be even more daunting at times than you may have originally expected. Leaders are the ones that everyone goes to with their challenges in hopes of coming up with a solution. So how can women leaders create their own support system that they feel comfortable turning to when the going gets tough? 

Workplace bullying has been more talked about recently than in prior years, and leadership teams have been doing a better, more effective job of preventing and eliminating it in the workplace. Workplace bullying can take place virtually anywhere, but if a zero-tolerance approach is embedded into a company’s culture starting at the top, it tends to be more effective as it gets disseminated far and wide throughout an organization and its team members.

Service-centered leaders put the needs of their people before profits by placing an emphasis on their teams’ wellbeing and personal and professional growth. We’ve seen more traditional leadership models accumulate authority at the top and deploy orders downwards throughout the organization.