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About this event

The Practice of Resilience in Leadership

Resilient behaviours and characteristics can be game-changing to culture, efficiency and the pace of progress in dynamic industries like ours. As individuals, developing these characteristics can be one of the most valuable things we do for our career and our future.

This session will introduce you to what Resilience actually looks like in practice, how we can proactively practice resilient characteristics, what self development feels like in reality and how to overcome it.

Alix’s presentation will be followed by a Q/A and then an opportunity to break out into further discussions.

Presenter: Alix Mackay, Director, The Life Sciences Marketing Academy

Alix Mackay is a specialist in life sciences marketing and communications, with a specific focus on start-up companies, spinouts and entrepreneurial academics. Alix is part of Scotland’s Industry Leadership Group for Life Sciences and regularly hosts national life sciences conferences and events for organisations including the BIA.

Alix’s background is in the biopharmaceutical industry, where she held a number of commercial leadership roles and launched Amgen’s therapeutic monoclonal antibody for the treatment of osteoporosis, a joint venture with GSK. More recently, Alix joined a team of military wives to become the first women in the world to retrace the iconic WWII mission, The Heroes of Telemark, 100km across Norway’s Hardangervidda mountain plateau – one of the most inhospitable environments on earth.

Organisers

WiSB - Connecting and supporting women and underrepresented genders across the world of engineered biology.

Supported by BuiltWithBiology, Potter Clarkson and the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre.