Light Her Path: Recent Episodes
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Stories to encourage women (and men) to inspire women at Roche to carve their path towards achieving their purpose, as well as career and personal goals. When we proactively and passionately light her path, we advocate for her, we build her confidence, and we enable her to unlock her potential.
Special Edition with Global DLT Female Leaders - Sharing their experiences on career path & development
In this week’s podcast episode, Ian Lim, Marketing Enabling Partner, speaks to Ann Costello, Global Head of Roche Diagnostics Solutions, Richeal Cline, Global Head of Quality & Regulatory and Silke Hoernstein, Global Head Strategy & Transformation to discuss how women’s career development has evolved in the organization over the past years in terms of opportunities, exposures, as well as challenges. The Leaders share their experiences on their career path and journey, the challenges they have faced in their career, the support they have received from their colleagues and how they have overcome the challenges.
In the next two podcast episodes, Ian Lim, Marketing Enabling Partner, speaks to Ann Costello, Global Head of Roche Diagnostics Solution, Richeal Cline, Global Head of Quality & Regulatory and Silke Hoernstein, Global Head Strategy & Transformation as they talk about how women’s career development has evolved over the past years in terms of opportunities, exposures, as well as challenges.
The Leaders share their experiences on their career path and journey, including their experiences on balancing work and their personal lives, and they provide insights on navigating opportunities for career development and increasing visibility and getting exposure at work post transformation.
How can we all foster an environment of allyship at Roche and take actions to be a good ally to our colleagues?
In this week’s podcast episode, Donna Therese Ong, Global Marketing Leader, speaks to Ahmed Elhusseiny, Pharma International Area Head for APAC, Noriko Hattori, Country Manager for Diabetes Care Japan and Richard Goh, General Manager for Diagnostics Taiwan to discuss the importance of allyship in creating an inclusive culture in the workplace. They share their experiences on allyship and the impact of their actions as allies to their colleagues.
Despite significant improvements in the last couple of years, women are still under-represented in science, technology and innovation, both in the academic and private sectors. This is due to a variety of reasons - be it the pre-existing prejudices that form glass ceilings, lack of info and exposure that limit the career opportunities and more. Come and join us to listen to the conversation among Farid Bidgoli, General Manager of Roche Pharma Thailand, Liu Haixia, Principal Scientist of Roche R&D Center (China) and Etsuko Mutoh, Head of IT, Roche Diagnostics Japan, to find out more.
As we strive to empower women at Roche so they can flourish and achieve their full potential professionally and personally, what's it like for our younger female colleagues? This week Abdul Qayyum, General Manager for Roche Diagnostics Pakistan, speaks to two young talented female colleagues from APAC as they share their experience navigating the workplace.
What is it like returning to work after being a caregiver to your elderly parents? How does it feel to be the only female Field Service Engineer (FSE) in your affiliate? How comfortable are you being your authentic self in a conservative culture? Tune in to learn more about gender biases through the lens of Asia Pacific.
Interview by Agnes Ho, with Bill Anderson and Lance Little:
Listen to our leaders share their vision and motivation behind IWN and our focus in Diversity and Inclusion with real life experiences and inspirational stories