How to make effective transitions in your professional life?

Making transitions - from academia to industry, from one job role to another, from Ph.D. to Postdoc - can be challenging to navigate.

This week's episode of When Science Speaks (link in comments) features Katherine Sugarman, M.D., a physician with more than 25 years of patient care and executive pharmaceutical experience in oncology, global regulatory affairs, global medical affairs, and related areas.

During this week's epsiode, we discuss a range of career issues, such as:

- How to approach major decisions that can alter your direction in life - The first time Katie made a radical change in the course of her life as an undergrad at Harvard University.

- Why change can be so frightening and how to manage fear of the unknown and leaving behind the familar

- How Katie approaches such high-stakes decisions

- The scariest career change Katie has made in her professional trajectory

- Katie's best advice to someone wrestling with a major career choice