- The future leaders actually need to be bold,
courageous, fearless
in this time of changes.
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- Gab, you've worked in leadership positions in numerous
biopharma companies.
How has that shaped your approach
to leadership in your current position?
- Yeah. I've spent my entire career in life science
more than 20 years.
I started in a manufacturing facility
and then, you know, I move into headquarters, right?
So I really experience the organization from, you know,the edge to, you know, the center.
And I think this helped me actually
to understand the complexity of a big pharma
and how to operate into a very complex environment
and really the opportunity to understand how
technology can help connecting, right, the different parts
of organization and create value across
the entire value chain.
- If you would advise other leaders
and maybe specifically other CDTOs,
what are your top three pieces
of advice in the current environment?
- The current environment is very volatile.
I think we are living in
incredible timings, actually.
The geopolitical tensions, the macroeconomic environment,
the pressure on the health care systems, pressures, also on your,
on the performances, right, of our companies.
My advice is to being a leader
that could encompass basically three different aspects
of, of being a leader.
The first one of course, be a functional leader,
be committed to deliver value for the organization.
The second actually add is a new add, is
actually being a people leader.
All our organizations are changing very rapidly,
and I think we need to consider how the,
the workforce right, will evolve over time.
And the third one is actually being a digital leader.
It doesn't mean be a technology or a technologist,
but actually embrace a new mindset, focused on customer,
on value creation, on long-term value generation,
about the speed, agility, but also resiliency.
And so this is a moment where, you know,
we need a new generation of leaders
that can really help our, our organization to
be future-ready and create value for long term.
The future leaders actually need to be bold, courageous,
fearless in this time of changes, need to
take measured risks, challenge the status quo,
actually reimagine the boundaries of what is possible,
and drive changes and innovation.
And ultimately in these turbulent
times that we are living, consider
challenges as not boundaries or guardrails,
but as an opportunity to reimagine the organization
and to to drive innovation and value creation.
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