The Conscious Biotech Exec: Recent Episodes
Claudia Villa Moore
A podcast that brings together inspiring industry leaders to discuss diverse career options that are available in the biotechnology industry. Every month, I will share insights from conversations with top leaders, highlighting their career journey and lessons learned, to help you understand what it takes to break into the biotech industry and learn to lead. If you are looking for advice to help you break into the industry, thrive in your career, and find meaning in your work, join me and let’s learn together from some of the best leaders in biotech!
Ritika Dhanda joins Claudia to talk about Regulatory Affairs Roles. Additional topics include:
✔ Mastering Skills for Success: From entry-level to senior roles, we'll uncover
the essential skills that'll propel you in the right direction.
✔ Turning Setbacks into Growth: Learn how to transform career challenges
into opportunities for personal and professional development.
✔ Company Values and Self-Confidence: How misaligned company values and
practices can contribute to imposter syndrome and how the right
environment can foster self-belief and confidence.
✔ Derisking Medical Product Development: Explore the game-changing
impact of early Regulatory Affairs input in mitigating risks and derisking the
medical product development.
This episode highlights different paths to becoming a clinical project manager. Listen as Kerrin Young and Claudia Villa Moore provide insights into
- The qualities sought in Clinical Project Manager (CPM) candidates and their hiring process.
- The essential skills needed to succeed in entry-level CPM roles.
- Skills required to advance into senior CPM roles.
- Therapeutic and product alignment.
- Skill transferability from other roles.
Listen as Kerrin shares his career journey from a Data QC role to a Director in Clinical Operations who hires and manages clinical project managers. He talks about his educational background, shares tips for finding a new role in our competitive market, and how to develop a broader network to increase access to opportunities and increase chances of landing a new role.
Listen as Ketaki shares her career journey and insights to help you understand the role and skills to focus on if you want to become an in-house CRA and advance in your career.
Ketaki Ghate and I, each have more than 14 years of experience working in the biotech industry, our perspectives apply to roles at Medtech, Pharma, and large CRO companies.
In this bonus episode, I answer all your questions about Clinical Research careers including entry level roles, entry level salary, career growth, and more!
In this bonus episode, I answer your questions about compliance careers including entry level roles, entry level salary, career growth, and more!
Key takeaways:
- To be successful in compliance, you need to know how to navigate through a crisis. Navigating through a crisis requires a high level of emotional intelligence to get to know and understand the people you lead.
- Emotional intelligence in application can help you:
- understand where the strengths and weakness of your team lie and how they complement one another.
- foster an environment where ideas are heard, and people aren't afraid to speak up.
- create a plan and be flexible enough to change direction, humble enough to accept when you've made a mistake, and courageous enough to correct your mistakes.
- If you're going to worry about anything, worry about what you're going to live for. Always remember that some things are worth dying for, for everything else, you need a plan.
If you're interested in helping others, and creating policy and strategies to support teams that bring life changing medicines to patients around the world, consider a career in Compliance!
Listen in to the latest episode of The Conscious Biotech Exec for advice from Tina Soulis and learn from her journey to becoming the CEO & Founder of Alithia Lifesciences.
Key takeaways:
- What you do in your role can be easily taught, but if you want to lead you must be willing to listen, empathize, keep an open mind, and create safe spaces for you and others to learn and grow together.
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Prioritize culture and task fit over a title, it can help you avoid situations where you’re only given tasks no one else wants. Figure out the tasks you enjoy most, and look for a manager/team culture that will allow you to focus on those tasks.
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Unlike technical skills, EQ skills are not reinforced in school or in our homes especially for those of us who came from low income or marginalized groups so it's important to make time to work on these skills so we can move beyond just entering new spaces.
Are you moving into an HR role or into a position where you will be leading teams?
Listen into the latest episode of the Conscious Biotech Exec for advice from Monica Pleasant and learn from her journey to becoming the Director of HR for Medtronic Neurovascular, a global leader in medical device development.
A few key takeaways from the episode:
- If you're going to lead people, get to know them. If you want to get to know people, learn to listen. If you want to help people, ask more questions and listen with empathy.
- Find a mentor who has time, will have your best interest in mind, and has strong skills that are complimentary to your weaknesses. If you don't know your weaknesses, make time to find out.
- Work on those soft skills, they are just as important as technical skills. It's harder to master EQ/soft skills because unlike the technical skills you learn in your role and can be easily taught, it requires a change in behavior that only comes with a significant level of self-awareness, time, and intentionality.
- Belonging is an output of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Your teams won't get a sense of belonging if any of these inputs are missing.