
HBA's Woman of the Year Podcast Series
Maureen Regan, managing partner of Regan Campbell Ward-McCann and the 1997 Woman of the Year, says it’s difficult to distinguish personal from professional roadblocks when you start a business.
Tamar Howson, former director of worldwide business development at SmithKline Beecham, says women must have the self-confidence to demand a life outside of the office.
Charlotte Sibley, a senior vice president for Shire, says she’s been hired, fired, upsized, downsized, promoted, demoted, and acquired-but through it all has learned some very important lessons.
In 1996, Kathy Giusti was diagnosed with a then-incurable cancer. Instead of giving up, she decided to fight back by establishing the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
Meryl Zausner, CFO of Novartis North America, says that when it came to traveling for work, leaving her son was hard, but coming home was even harder.
Live life on your toes, not your heels, says Lynn O’Connor Vos, CEO of Grey Healthcare Group, and you’ll always be ready for opportunities.
Over a 30-year career, there were many bumps in the road-especially as a woman and as a minority, says Sarah Harrison, former vice president of customer strategy integration for AstraZeneca, and CEO of H&S Enterprise, Inc.
Lynn Gaudioso, president of Ivanhoe Strategies, LLC and a former vice president for Pfizer, says it’s easy to time correct for the gender issues that plagued pharma-but women need to confirm those rights.
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