Next Generation Bioscience Leaders

Next Program Date: February 1-5, 2010 Claremont, California

Next Generation Bioscience Leaders will help your company tap the skills, energy, and motivation of your talented women scientists as they learn to become strategic business leaders.

This distinctive week satisfies the need many companies have for setting talented women scientists and professionals on the path toward lasting and strategic contributions to the enterprise.

Why This Program?
This dynamic collaboration brings together the synergy of two of the country's leading institutions:

1. The Keck Graduate Institute (part of the Claremont Colleges consortium) - experts in developing business leaders in bioscience
   
   
2. Smith Executive Education for Women - experts in strategic leadership development for women

Program Highlights

1. Female participants will gain important real life "lessons learned" about functional areas critical to the success of a life science enterprise
   
   
2. Information will be disseminated from both the tactical as well as the strategic perspective
   
   
3. The week is designed to assist high potential female managers to develop a strategic mindset
   
   
4. High potential women will learn lessons critical to organizational and career success
   
   
5. Next Generation is an opportunity for participants to step back from the day-to-day to learn from pioneering women in life sciences
   
   
6. Participants will have valuable networking opportunities with peers and industry leaders
   
   
7. Next Generation is designed to help participants develop more confidence in their ability to make business decisions

Ideal Candidate
Next Generation Bioscience Leaders is a management development opportunity for women six to twelve years into their careers who are ready to assume higher-level management or leadership positions.

Key Take Aways

• Gain a comprehensive view of the life science industry today and tomorrow - imparted by senior female executives who live it daily
  
  
• Learn how women who have been trained to be great scientists can learn to become strategic business leaders
  
  
• Understand how female executives have progressed on their career paths and how their corporate contributions have become more valuable to their organizations
  
  
• Explore functional areas critical for success in biotech - finance, human assets, product life cycle, strategy, competition, operations, technology, marketing and more
  
  
• Develop significant opportunities for mentor relationships among participants and faculty