“You cannot just change the mindset because from tomorrow on this is a new mindset. This is a journey. You need to create an experience.”

“Change is connected to how you organize yourself and where you spend your time. To focus and prioritize on what is really important. If I can be a good example to my leadership team, it’s something which has a very high likelihood to be scaled.”

“Being more efficient in your professional life you need to balance your energy level. It’s important that we do something to free up your brain energy. You cannot constantly be in the red zone. And it’s also not good to be only in this aerobic zone. The brain is the same.”

“As a teenager, I got this experimental lab and I went into the basement and developed this intrinsic passion and started to do a lot of experiments. Long story short, it didn’t work. So fast forward. I kept this pattern. I was driven by curiosity and later, much later, I understood what went wrong. It’s a nice operating principle which I appreciate a lot: Follow the science.”

“I decided to leave academia and join a company like Roche. That would multiply my impact by millions. That kept my motivation to join industry and leave academia. [Roche] is in a unique spot to integrate Diagnostics and Pharma and then we can talk about prevention and create a global healthcare system.”

“Many of us forget, everything starts in healthcare with Diagnostics. Moving forward we may be able to move it into prevention. That’s why I have a passion for Diagnostics.”

“If you have an opportunity to do something in a different way where you learn and meet other great leaders, this program is definitely worth it to be considered, because it is breaking out of the traditional way of learning and connecting.”

“We are designing scalability from day 1!”

“You have to come into this with the right mindset from the beginning that you’re going to shape this and you are going to redefine or define for the first time what these roles could look like. No one has done this before. It’s our chance to do it for the first time.”

“We are at this point where we can design what our jobs can look like, what our workflows and processes look like. We are part of this group of individuals that can creatively think about how we want things to work and how we want things to be shaped. That’s an exciting space to be in!”

“In the realm of artificial intelligence there’s a high degree already of skepticism, trust issues, and people generally worried about their jobs so it’s a space where you can’t come in there with, ‘It’s going to be amazing and we have to do this and it’s the right timing.’ It’s not a place where people can be told that this is what we need to do, where you simply mandate it and everyone from this day forward you use it."

“Without personal ownership at scale, you may get adoption rate up, but you won’t get that efficiency gain that you were expecting. That only comes when people really buy into it personally.”

“Sometimes constraints are a beautiful thing. Constraints allow you to think out of the box because you have to find a way out of it. Failure is not an option…no option of going back. I have to figure it out. And it’s quite amazing what people can come up with!”

“There is no option but to try. Unless you have tried it you will not know if it’s going to work out. You have to at least try it. I only ask for one thing. Whatever you’re doing, do your best. It carries through everything in your life.”

“Trust [given to others] builds confidence. They did a better job than I did because I trusted them. I set up a safety net, but now they are much more confident. They now say, “I’ve got this. I’m going to take care of this.” Give people their space to do their own thing. The only way to swim is to jump in the pool.”

“Sometimes you go through phases where things aren’t working out. You have to find your north star, to say, “Is this going to help me get closer to that? If not then let’s not worry about it.” We do so much in a day that doesn’t take us closer to it [our north star].”

“I don’t need anybody’s permission….we are the ones who hold ourselves back. We are the ones who say, “I won’t do that. I won’t go and ask this, etc.” No. The biggest permission you need is from yourself to say, “Let’s do it!” Have the courage. Once you have given yourself that permission, you’ll see that things are actually very different.”

“Have trust in yourself so others can build trust in you. While it may sound obvious, it is not.”

“Building trust and having trust in oneself takes time. It’s not just bringing in your skill sets, but everything that comes along with it."

"This group was able to build up trust not doing anything business related and then all of a sudden everything came up very quickly. We took so much care building trust that we could go with many other topics.”

“Practical ways to build trust? We need to find ways to get to know each other without an agenda. We can build no agenda-driven relationships. We will be working on something important and trust each other’s expertise regardless of where we come from. Trust in the core person regardless of what our business card says.”

Better healthcare to more patients faster. Faster is theoperative word.

If we can get back into people’s mindset, it would be agreat opportunity. For example I was talking with one of my colleagues and he was giving himself permission to be disruptive, to try to let go of restraints. If we can help peopleunderstand it’s not the fear of the unknown, it’s the opportunity of the unknown. It’s limitless on what we can do!

So often we feel like we’re in a stalemate when in realitywe’re not. It might be a small decision or a big decision, but it is important to ask, “Am I doing the right thing for me?” So many people don’t feel free.

A lot of people have great ideas and a lot of peopleinnovate. But what I’ve observed is that if you create a connection among people in parallel to innovating you not only have an idea but you have the power of the few. We’re moving together as a whole. So, it’s not moving together individually but moving together as a whole that gives me confidence we can achieve what others haven’t, even than if it was a great initiative.

Accelerating digital adoption, I’m getting into the heartsand minds of my customer and shutting out all the rest of the noise, creating that connective tissue. What technology do I need to really understand to remove the blocks? And probably more importantly, I need a lot more people inthis family to make it successful. So I spent a lot more time networking with those that have the same vision I do.

"Go where the conflict is. That's where you grow. I get a lot of energy working with companies and cohorts going after big problems."

"Coming from technology we tend to think the solution to every problem is technology. It's not the technology. Often times we're not even operating at the same plane. Something as simple as have we all oriented to the context? People jump into the problem and can't get out of it. It's really about how we as humans work together."

"My teams build technology for the Life Sciences industry. AI can revolutionize how we apply our work. When we go into these areas we think we just need to build this application. But the real world is messier than that. We're only here for so long. How do we make meaningful impact to make the world better?"

"The most impactful part of the journey is applying it to yourself. Not only our roles day to day, but how to leverage mindset to allow ourselves to innovate and make an impact."

"So much tremendous advances have happened in healthcare, but so much opportunity is in front of us. In order to get that we have to earn trust together to tackle this challenge in the world."

"What makes the difference to give you belief that we can achieve the big goal? It's the people."

Ex-Pfizer, Novartis, Merck executive and AI geek building what's next!

“My main concern was I’m going to be distracted from the work that needs to be done. I was doing the first commercial launch in 35 plus years of the company. So that was a big deal. I’m seeing this differently. I got frameworks and this is about mindset, having the right mindset to test and try. Because if not, this is not going to work.

Opening a big door for people that are curious about thisand not afraid of being replaced by technology or data. Taking that fear away is like helping them feel very familiar with these things. Sometimes they don’t know what they don’t know.

It releases you from the pressure of today and puts you in thenear future and helps you to navigate quick and frictionless.”

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“Sometimes you need to push yourself out of your comfortzone and try things that are different and experience some uncertainty. That’s where the magic happens.”

“You have to be in the intrapreneur mindset in digital adoption. How do you take the entrepreneurial mindset you might have in a small company and bring that within a big company for patients?”

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For digital acceleration there will be situations where youdon’t have all the pieces in place and we are afraid of what is going to come, whether we will fail. Look for someone who can help set you up for success and you just need to take the step forward. And you will achieve a breakthrough andwill open up a whole new world whether for the organization or for yourself. It’s another level of freedom and the impact is huge.”

"AI isn't going to care if you believe it, use it, or buy into it, it's going to change the future."