WIB-National Webinar: Growing Your Career and Personal Brand in Life Sciences and Biotech

Today’s biotech market is extremely competitive and riddled with difficult career-growth obstacles. Some are within our control, others that are not. More than ever, networking and relationships dictate career success. This presentation provides participants these learning objectives:

• Identify the six keys to career development/transition success
• Build an impactful, results-oriented bio
• Learn how to develop a strategic network
• Understand where there are market opportunities for new career positions and how to approach them
• Gain insight into best practices for moving up within your organization
• Marketing yourself and communicating your value proposition
• Discover the value of your personal brand
• Learn how to become a thought leader and expand your market presence

Disclaimer: This event may be recorded. If so, there is a possibility your image and or voice may be a part of that recording. If you do not wish for your image to be included please turn off your camera.

Speaker Biographies:

Stefan Werdegar: Stefan’s experience spans over 20 years across client management, consulting, executive recruitment, training/development and sales. His industry experience has traversed the technology, biotech, healthcare and health information technology industries. In 2011, he changed careers to pursue his passion for helping build high performing leadership teams, as well as helping individuals grow in their careers. He has coached countless executives toward achieving career and leadership goals and helped to position them in the market with effective personal branding. Stefan has placed numerous executives in senior roles in a variety of organizations as an executive search consultant. Through his experience he guides organizations in building high performing teams. Stefan is currently Senior Consulting Advisor in the Healthcare Services and Technology practice at Horton International, a global retained executive search and management consulting firm. He also serves as Manager of Professional Development at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Additionally, Stefan is Founder and CEO of Career Sharma, where he provides career and leadership development coaching for individuals (Manager –C-suite physician leaders), and executive team development within the technology, life science and healthcare fields. Prior to this Stefan was Managing Partner with Quick Leonard Kieffer, a national healthcare executive search firm. He is certified in the Hogan Leadership assessment series and the Decision Style assessment. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at a number of regional and national association conferences on topics such as talent management, leadership, hiring and career development. Stefan is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Grace Lanni: Award-Winning Branding Influencer from Austin, Texas Founder and CEO of All About That Brand.
Grace continually stretches the cutting edge of personal/professional branding delivering keynotes at international events. Originally trained as a Bio/Electrical engineer, her first CEO venture was an online software solution. One of only two women to be venture funded at the multi-million-dollar level in Austin in 2000, Grace was featured in the Austin Business Journal, on KEYE, and won the KPMG Stand-Out Startup Award. Grace’s All About That Brand podcast is award-winning and her most recent book, The No B.S. Truth: What it Really Takes to Build a Successful Business, is an International Best Seller. Her next book focuses on what’s beyond the story brand in 2020.

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