Episodes
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Real Time with WLP’s 31st episode features Kim Ferras, Senior Biopharmaceutical Representative at Amgen, speaking to the importance of Self-investment: How to make Physical Fitness a Sustainable Priority.
With over 20 years’ experience, Kim, speaks frankly with Virginia Fairbanks, Mental Health Specialist, Lundbeck, on how health and fitness can play a vital role in humanizing the workplace, and can lead to career growth and improving overall business results. Kim shares her philosophy of making physical fitness achievable and sustainable within one’s personal and professional life.
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This month’s podcast features Dyisha Reliford, VP, DEI Strategic Initiatives with Cencora, sharing why health equity is such an important topic that is re-emerging within our industry for our 30th episode of Real Time with WLP. In this podcast, Dyisha speaks with Angelina Braithwaite, Director, Strategic Client Engagement at Brunel where she shares her own personal journey and how it shaped her professional role in DEI and health based initiatives. Dyisha’s perspective is an opportunity for reflection on how leaders at all levels can instill change during this authentic and inspiring conversation.
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Episode 29’s podcast features Domenico Beneveneto, Vice President of the Canadian Business Unit at MIP, our second male guest in our Real Time with WLP series. In this podcast, Domenico speaks with Jody Franklin, Director, Partnerships & Commercial Sales, CPhA, where he shares his philosophy on how one’s own approach as a leader can create workplace opportunities for women to succeed. Take time to reflect on how women professionals can more proactively seize opportunities.
About Domenico Benevento
Domenico is a highly accomplished leader with nearly two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and medical consumables industries. Currently serving as the Vice President for the Canadian business unit at MIP, Domenico holds the reins in shaping the strategic direction and overseeing the commercial management of the Canadian division. Known for his customer and stakeholder-centric approach, he brings a distinctive perspective to problem-solving, ensuring that MIP's business aligns seamlessly with the needs of all those involved.
Domenico's journey began as an award-winning sales representative, demonstrating proficiency across diverse disease areas including Cardiology, Cystic Fibrosis, and Oncology. His versatility extends to contributions in sales, marketing, training, commercial operations and fostering collaborationswith government bodies, all aimed at enhancing healthcare accessibility through innovative solutions.
Valuing purpose-driven leadership, Domenico's strategic vision iscentered on driving performance and positive outcomes for MIP in Canada. He champions a collaborative, growth-oriented workplace culture, prioritizing the development and well-being of his team while maintaining an unwavering commitment to innovation and performance.
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Episode 28 is a special year-end podcast featuring some of our inspiring past guests (Christine Sakdalan, Chris Cummins, Dr. Carol Parker, Vanessa Roknic, Emma Charles, and Dana Singleton). In this final podcast of 2023, they reflect on what they wish they had known earlier in their careers and share these moments that will inspire you to take pause for your own professional reflection.
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This month’s Real Time with WLP podcast episode is with Dana Singleton, Senior Vice President & Sector Lead – Health at Edelman. In conversation with Jessica Lovett, Dana explores Finding Balance in your Life as a Rule, not a Goal.
She shares her view on the concept of balance, exploring its misconceptions and dynamic nature when managing different aspects of life. As a woman leader responsible for managing teams, she has practical guidance on achieving personal balance and on how she supports her teams with their own self-investment. Take a few minutes for yourself & listen to this thought-provoking conversation.
With more than 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare areas, Dana is responsible for the strategic development of multi-faceted communications campaigns, senior level client counsel and account direction. Dana excels at bringing together teams to execute integrated campaigns involving Edelman’s social and digital teams, paid & performance, earned media experts, and insights and analytics. Whether focused on planning, client relations or training, Dana is a team player who enjoys collaborating with colleagues in all sectors andspecialties.
At Edelman, Dana leads accounts for Novartis, Sanofi-Genzyme, GSK, AstraZeneca, Merck Canada Inc. Her extensive experience includes work in a diverse number of therapeutic areas including neurology, rheumatoid arthritis, atopic dermatitis, mental health, chronic pain, digestivehealth, cardiovascular health and diabetes. Throughout her career, Dana has worked with stakeholder groups including the Eczema Society of Canada, Crohn's and Colitis Canada, PKD Foundation of Canada, Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Arthritis Society.
On behalf of her clients, she and her teams have been recognized in Canada and internationally with industry awards from the Canadian Public Relations Society, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Canadian Marketing Association. Dana also serves as the Canadian lead for GWEN, Edelman’s Global Women’s Equality Network.
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In this episode of Real Time with WLP, Emma Charles, Senior Vice President- Intercontinental Markets, Bristol Myers Squibb and Cindy Woodcock from the WLP Mentoring Committee and Program Lead, Stakeholder Engagement at Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), talk about "The Critical Role of Authenticity as a Mentor".Emma describes what authenticity means to her and how it contributes to building positive relationships between mentors and mentees. We explore the “What If” approach and its impact on fostering authentic connections.
Emma Charles is Senior Vice President of Intercontinental Markets at Bristol Myers Squibb. In this role, Emma oversees a diverse region, with responsibilities for 70+ markets across the world, including China, Asia, Australia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, Brazil and the Middle East. Prior to becoming SVP of Intercon, Emma was Vice President, General Manager & Board Member of BMS Italy for over six years.
Before joining BMS, Emma spent more than nine years at Pfizer as Central European, Turkey & Israel Cluster lead, Head of Strategy & Business Development for Europe and Regional Lead of Rare Diseases and Neurosciences for Europe. She was with Janssen in both France and the U.S., leading commercial divisions within their neurosciences business. Emma began her career at Pasteur Merieux (now Sanofi Pasteur) working within their vaccine business as Marketing Manager of South East Asia and Global Brand Manager of Vaccines.
Emma is passionate about accelerating and expanding access of innovative medicines to patients and about fostering employee engagement that thrives on diversity, inclusion and a strong speak-up culture. Her biopharma career spans more than 25 years across commercial, corporate strategy and business development operations. Emma graduated from a leading French business school in Paris, in Marketing & Finance. Emma currently resides in Rome, Italy with her family.
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We invite you to listen to the newest episode of Real Time with WLP, Embracing the Unknown: Navigating Ambiguity for Innovative Success, featuring @Vanessa Roknic, Director, Digital Transformation & Innovation, Novo Nordisk and Diana Veronica Ferraez, Member of the Digital Committee at WLP.
Vanessa shares her insights on how leaders can create a culture that embraces ambiguity and encourages innovation. Discover practical strategies to help up-and-coming leaders navigate ambiguity successfully.
ABOUT VANESSA ROKNIC
Vanessa Roknic has built a solid reputation for transforming organizations by identifying customers’ pain points, ideating viable solutions, and leading high-performing teams to execute. She leverages her R&D background coupled with expertise in front-end drug development and regulatory compliance toinform digital innovation and transformation from initial problem identification to creation of a total solution.
Vanessa champions innovation across global enterprises through complex problem solving, strategic partner engagement, high-performance team building
In her current role as Director, Digital Transformation and Innovation for Novo Nordisk, Vanessa leads the operations and expansion of the company’s firstinternal innovation incubator: Apis Labs. She builds novel partnerships with internal groups and external academic institutions to accelerate the volume andvelocity of the innovation portfolio.
Throughout her 8-year tenure with Novo Nordisk, Vanessa progressed from clinical project management roles first in Australia and then in the US, to newly formed roles in business performance and commercial innovation. She met the executive team’s mandate to pioneer a Proof of Concept (PoC) innovation incubator that drove rapid, incremental, and iterative experimentation to identify innovation opportunities.
Vanessa holds an MBA from Colorado State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Microbiology / Immunology and Genetics from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She completed Drug Development Product Management training at UC San Diego.
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In this episode of Real Time with WLP “Imposter Syndrome: Time to Change the Narrative”, Dr. Carol Parker Walsh, Founder and Owner of Carol Parker Walsh Consulting, speaks with Tamara Lovi, Chief Business Officer at ROSE LifeScience Inc., about the different types of imposter syndrome and how women can manage it.
Dr. Carol Parker Walsh is the founder and owner of Carol Parker Walsh Consulting, is a boutique strategic advisory, coaching, and training and development firm specializing in helping organizations and leaders unlock their innovation potential. They provide services in foresight strategy, coaching, facilitation, and leadership development.
Dr. Parker Walsh is an award-winning master-certified executive coach, personal brand strategist, TEDx speaker, and 3x Amazon best-selling author. A sought-after international keynote, Carol is a Fellow of the Harvard Institute of Coaching and a published member of the Forbes Coaches Council, Newsweek Expert Forum, Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, and Entrepreneur’s Leadership Network, the resident career expert on ABC’s AM Northwest Morning Show.
Dr. Parker Walsh is a 2009 Iris Award & Women of Achievement winner. She was selected as one of the 100 Dynamic Leaders of the Year by Exeleon Magazine in 2022, and DotCom Magazine awarded her company the 2021 Impact Company of the Year Award. In addition, her podcast, The Midlife Career Rebel, was named one of Mac’s List Top Career Podcasts for 2022.
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Join us on an inspiring episode of Real Time with WLP! In this captivating discussion, Dr. Joan Fallon, visionaryscientist as well as the Founder & CEO of biopharmaceutical company Curemark, sits down with Dorothy Czylyski, Partner & President at No Fixed Address Health (NFA Health), to unveil her life's mission of championing the health and wellbeing of children worldwide.
Discover how Dr. Joan Fallon fearlessly embarked on an extraordinary path of leadership and sheds light on the transformative impact she's making by challenging the status quo. Prepare to be inspired by her passion for changing lives through reimagining innovation.
ABOUT DR. JOAN FALLON
Joan holds over 300 patents worldwide, has written numerous scholarly articles, and lectured extensively across the globe on pediatric developmental problems. A former Assistant Professor at Yeshiva University in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. She holds appointments as a Senior Advisor to the Henry Crown Fellows at The Aspen Institute, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin & Marshall College and The Pratt Institute. She currently serves as a board member at the DREAM Charter School in Harlem, the PitCCh In Foundation started by CC and Amber Sabathia, Springboard Enterprises an internationally known venture catalyst that supports women–led growth companies and Vote Run Lead a bipartisan not-for-profit that encourages women on both sides of the aisle to run for elected office.
She served on the ADA Board of Advisors for the building of the new Yankee Stadium and has testified before Congress on the matters of business and patents.
Joan is the recipient of numerous awards including being named one of the top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020 by Goldman Sachs, 2017 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year NY in Healthcare and received the Creative Entrepreneurship Award from The New York Hall of Science in 2018. Joan also recently published her first book, Goodbye, Status Quo: Reimagining the Landscape of Innovation in January 2022. Now as a respected business leader, doctor, and academic, Joan is driven to share what she has learned and the perspectives that brought her success.
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In this episode of Real Time with WLP, Terri Drover, Director-General, Health Products Stewardship Association, inconversation with Angelina Braithwaite, Senior Client Partner- Brunel, shares how navigating a 30 year career in pharma set her up for a leadership role in a globally recognized Association made up over 140 pharma and pharmacy based members, forging environmental stewardship and sustainability for Extended Producer Responsibility Programs.
Terri candidly shares her journey leading her to leadership, and more importantly the impact she is making by navigating allyship, building alliances and offering advice to newcomers in the pharma industry.
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In Episode 21 of Real Time with WLP, TJ Geddis, Senior Commercial Director at EmpowerPharm speaks with Millie Davis, Negotiation Consultant with Scotwork North America. Millie addresses how optimizing your negotiations skills will help achieve both your professional and personal goals. As an expert in ‘deal coaching’ with top Fortune 500 Executives, she offers practical advice on how to recognize negotiation opportunities when seeking out a new role, responding to requests for non-promotable work, or when simply saying ‘no’ is difficult.
ABOUT MILLIE
Millie Davis is in her fifth year as a negotiation consultant with Scotwork North America, where she has helped five of the seven largest pharma companies optimize their dealmaking. Before joining Scotwork, Millie was a key dealmaker herself, serving as the Vice President of Business Development for the MarketStar, an Omnicom agency, as well as in several roles for Microsoft’s retail and channel sales.
For more information or guidance on sharpening your negotiation skills you can reach Millie at [email protected] or utilize the resources below.
Scotwork's Complete 2022 Articles (Digital Book) - This links to the complete set of front-line negotiation insights and illustrations from Scotwork in 2022. Search the book based on frequent negotiation questions.
https://www2.scotworkusa.com/Scotwork2022DigitalBookWLP
"Lessons From Lasso" by Millie Davis - This article by Millie Davis describes how to stay flexible during a negotiation and draws inspiration from Ted Lasso.
https://www.scotworkusa.com/negotiation-blog/2021/lessons-from-lasso/
"Know When to Negotiate" by Brian Buck - This article by Scotwork North America CEO Brian Buck describes the three conditions that must be present for a negotiation to be possible.
https://www.scotworkusa.com/negotiation-blog/2023/know-when-to-negotiate/
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In this episode Chris Cummins, General Counsel Canada at GSK in conversation with Jessica Lovett, VP Business Development and Digital Innovation at Innomar Strategies shares his perspective on allyship and being an ally for women leaders. Chris opens up about his journey and growth as an ally and how to move past good intentions into action.
ABOUT CHRIS
Chris joined GSK in 2014 and has served in several commercial and legal roles. Chris is currently General Counsel for all of GSK’s commercial operations in Canada. He has an amazing wife, two spectacular boys and a passion for learning and mental health.
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Our first podcast of the year is ready!
Real Time with WLPinvites you to listen to “DEI&B as a Catalyst for Impactful Change” with Christine Sakdalan, VP and US Head of Commercial, Mental Health at Boehringer Ingelheim as well as CEO of the non-profit organization Momentum & Value for People of Color (MVPOC). Virginia Fairbank, with Lundbeck and our Diversity and Communications team member at WLP, hosts this thoughtful conversation.
In this new episode, Christine Sakdalan shares how she embraces and sponsors authentic diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and her strategies to promote belonging and change in the short and long-term within the workplace.
About CHRISTINE SAKDALAN
Christine Sakdalan is VP and US Head of Commercial, Mental Health at Boehringer Ingelheim. Previously, she led the development of market access and payer strategy, customer experience, end-to-end patient solutions, and strategic business operations as Head of Franchise Strategy and Customer Solutions for the Janssen Pharmaceuticals Neuroscience business. Christine’s prior roles include VP of Marketing / Interim GM at Amgen for the Bone / CV business unit, where she built a world-class commercial organization. Prior to Amgen, she spent more than 7 years at Novo Nordisk leading the company’s evolution to patient-centricity. She started her career at Novartis where she advanced to Executive Director in market research and then to Executive Director of Marketing Innovation Pipeline.
As a strong advocate for DE&I, Christine is also the co-Founder, CEO, and Board Chair for MVP (Momentum & Value for People of Color). She created the vision, structure, and resources for this organization dedicated to providing young people of color with mentorship, strategic networks, leadership development, and internship opportunities. Since its launch In January 2021, MVP has engaged more than 100 leaders as mentors and several companies as internship providers.
Christine completed executive education and leadership programs at Stanford University and The Wharton School. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University. A former Board member of the Google Healthcare Advisory Board, she currently serves as a Council member with the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG).
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In our final podcast of 2022, we have compiled some of the Best Advice we have heard this year and sharing it with our listeners.
Episode 18 is a special year end podcast featuring some of our past guests (Cloe Caron, Tina Graves, Amy Gomez, Sarah Robertson, Helen Kontozopoulos, and Catherine Harrison) and the advice that they feel inspired and helped shape their own career paths in our industry.
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Akwa combines strategic expertise and project management skills with superior global and local marketing knowledge obtained from close to 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. Overseeing the execution of campaigns and development of strategies within pre-commercial, inline pipeline, and launch spaces for brands in numerous therapeutic areas, Akwa’s portfolio of clients has included AstraZeneca, Pfizer, BMS, ViiV HC, GSK, and UPMC. As a senior business leader Akwa earns accolades from clients and coworkers for her own dedication, as well as her ability to draw the best from those around her.
She currently carries out two roles as WPP Global Client Lead for GSK and Managing Director – EMEA at TANK Worldwide based in London, UK. Akwa continues to deliver for existing clients while developing new agency opportunities in the EMEA region.
In conversation with Joanna Wilson, Global Client Lead at Edelman, Akwa shares the importance and impact of the role of diversity and inclusion that leaders can foster within their organizations. And, in turn, empowering our leaders of tomorrow.
Take a few minutes for yourself & listen to this empowering conversation.
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Striving for excellence while accepting human fallibility is at the heart of Human Centered Leadership, the 16th episode of Real Time with WLP.
Catherine Harrison, President of Purple Voodoo in conversation with Jessica Lovett, VP Business Development and Digital Innovation at Innomar Strategies introduces leaders to the concept of real skills to foster belonging, interconnectedness, and community to solve the problems of tomorrow.
Catherine Harrison has decades of experience as both a corporate professional and a multi-disciplinary artist. This gives her a unique perspective on realizing strategic, creative, and progressive outcomes, and enables Purple Voodoo to provide authentic and straightforward cultivation of ideas and solutions for individuals, small businesses, or large corporations. Catherine is a certified professional coach, expert facilitator, behaviour change specialist, seasoned team leader and strategic connector of dots. All of her work has an underlying focus on mindfulness, adaptability and accountability.
To connect with Catherine visit CatherineHarrison.com or PurpleVoodoo.ca
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“Intrapreneurship” – Recognizing and Supporting its Value Within Your Organization, presents a great conversation between Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-founder & Chief Technical Evangelist, ODAIA Intelligence and Jennifer Meldrum, President of Women Leaders in Pharma and Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Peak Pharma Solutions Inc.
In this episode, Helen shares the difference between entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship and how leaders and intrapreneurs can succeed in their organization from a strategic and tactical perspective.
Helen co-founded ODAIA in 2018, an AI-powered commercial insights SaaS platform for Pharma companies. As Chief Technical Evangelist, Helen brings her understanding of artificial intelligence, customer analytics and digital transformation to drive ODAIA’s thought leadership efforts, ultimately helping pharma teams adopt AI in their work and leverage data science and AI to achieve a competitive advantage.
She has been teaching product development, design, and entrepreneurship for 9 years at the University of Toronto in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences.
Helen co-founded UofT's Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab (DCSIL), an incubator that supports students and faculty to commercialize their innovations in emerging technologies.
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In this episode, Sarah Robertson, Communications and Transformation Strategist, shares with us how to navigate through ambiguity and perform under pressure with a balanced approach to leadership.
Sarah has a passion for communicating with purpose and creating possibilities. She builds strategies that enable transformation, close trust gaps, accelerates transitions, and drive engagement. She has a strong track record of delivering results and building communications capacity. Sarah has navigated major U.S. and Canadian public health crises, class action & litigation, U.S. bankruptcy proceedings, mergers & acquisitions, and has overseen social responsibility mandates for large organizations. Sarah knows that words matter and guides organizations and leaders to choose them carefully. She was recognized in 2021 by Ragan and PR Daily as one of the Top Women in Communications (Crisis Navigator).
While she leverages her more than two decades of experience to work on organizations’ toughest challenges, she’s a lifelong learner: in addition to her Bachelor’s Degree in English Language & Literature from The University of Western Ontario and her Post-Degree Certificate in Public Relations from Humber College, she has completed numerous executive courses and certifications: Yale School of Management, the International Association of Business Communicators, Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, Council for Continuing Pharmaceutical Education, and the Niagara Institute. She recently completed the Indigenous Canada program through the University of Alberta and is pursuing a certificate in Positive Workplace Culture with Dalhousie University.
She currently volunteers as: Vice President of Women Leaders in Pharma; a member of the Corporate Leadership Council for College to Congress in Washington DC; strategic advisor to the Chair of the Board for Over the Bridge; Communications Chair on the Canadian Public Relations Society Nova Scotia Board; and judge for IABC/Toronto’s Ovation Awards program. Her views on Communicating in Canada were recently published in the fifth edition of Robert L. Dilenschneider’s “The Public Relations Handbook” for US readers.
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In this episode, Dr. Cheng shares a profound perspective on how we can become further aware of biases in our daily practices. She discusses the importance of the Med Ed Pledge (www.theMedEdPledge.com), and how to activate change.
Dr. Cheng is an Endocrinologist at Trillium Health Partners and Unity Health Toronto and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She has been involved with the development of the Diabetes Canada clinical practice guidelines since 2003 and served as Chair for the 2013 version. Currently, she is an Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Diabetes and immediate Past-Chair of the Professional Section of Diabetes Canada. In recognition of her contribution, she has received the national Charles H. Best Award and the Gerald S. Wong Service Award from Diabetes Canada.
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In this episode, Amy Gómez, SVP Diversity Strategy at Klick Health shares her experience implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion best practices inside and outside of the organization. The “Empowering Inclusion in Healthcare” will cover different angles of diversity and inclusion that sometimes can be missed.
Amy is a cross-cultural marketing thought leader and a champion for health equity with over 20 years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies and leading not-for-profits communicate effectively with diverse consumers. Amy spearheads the creation of relevant and impactful communications for the segments driving growth in the U.S. today: Hispanic, Black, Asian and LGBTQ+, and develops global cross-cultural strategies that drive relevance across markets. She leads the Cross-Cultural Marketing capability for Klick Health, the world’s largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences, and spearheads the company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.
She has worked with a wide variety of health and non-health clients, including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, The American Heart Association, Janssen, Merck, Nestle, Citbank, HBO, Marriott and Progressive Insurance.
In 2021, Amy was honored by the PM360 ELITE Awards The 100 Most Influential People in the Healthcare Industry in the “Transformational Leader” category.
In May 2022, Amy was honored by Clio as a 2022 Health Innovator, which honors the behind-the-scenes leaders pushing healthcare marketing forward.
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