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Myth Busters: Getting Promoted in Pharma/Biotech

January 24, 2024

There are some common MYTHS out there about what it takes to get promoted in the Pharma/Biotech industry.

If you have been trying to get promoted without success or want to get promoted this year, you won’t want to miss this episode. I’m diving into 5 common myths people have about getting a promotion.

I won’t just share the myths but I’m going to bust them too so you can stop focusing on the wrong things and get promoted faster.

P.S. This is a 3 part myth series! Tune in next week as I share myths about improving your current job.

What you’ll learn:

  • 5 myths about what it takes to get promoted in the Pharma/Biotech industry right now
  • How these myths are keeping you focused on the wrong tasks and preventing you from getting promoted
  • After I bust each myth, I’m sharing what to do instead so you can get promoted faster

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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.

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