Christine Ann Miller has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of Melinta Therapeutics since August 2020. Ms. Miller is a global pharmaceutical veteran with more than 20 years of experience in life sciences.She directed more than 50 product launches that generated over $300 million of new annual revenue, closed numerous business development acquisitions, and built a robust five-year development and acquisition product pipeline. Before Sandoz, Ms. Miller spent over a decade at Actavis (now Allergan) and its predecessor Watson Pharmaceuticals where she led the preparation of numerous product launches and held leadership roles in both R&D operations and supply chain management.Christine started her career at Merck as a chemical engineer and procurement analyst and earned an MBA and a Master’s in Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.In this episode, we discuss:·     The root of Christine’s purpose and how where she came from inspired her journey.·     How knowing her purpose helped achieve goals and climb the ladder throughout her career.·     The redefinition of power through knowing it actually sits within you– you don’t have to chase it, or take it from someone else to be powerful.·     How, as a CEO, Christine has faced both political challenges and professional challenges to her power and has used her strength of purpose to intentionally stay in her power.I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Please let me know your thoughts! Connect with Christine MillerWebsite: https://melinta.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinemiller95/ Connect with Dr. Sharon MelnickWebsite: https://www.sharonmelnick.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmelnick/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ron Carucci is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty-year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, turnarounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth, he has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents. In addition to being a regular contributor to HBR and Forbes, he has been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Inc, Business Week, Smart Business, and thought leaders. He has helped CEOs, their executive teams, and senior executives tackle some of the most complicated transformations in spaces like biopharma R&D, Silicon Valley tech startup scaling, global culture change, and food science innovation. He has helped build leadership pipelines for global Fortune 100 companies, and accompanied executives on major career transitionsIn this episode, we discuss:·   What is power and why its important·   The biggest 'abuse' of power is not using it when you have it ·   What women do right when it comes to using their power to get results in organizations·   How to become your own version of a good, powerful leader, regardless of how those before you acted·  How transparency and honesty create conditions where everyone acts the right way in companiesI hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have.Please let me know your thoughts! Connect with RonWebsite: www.navalent.comBook: www.ToBoHonest.netConnect with Dr. Sharon MelnickWebsite: https://www.sharonmelnick.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmelnick/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sandra Pepera is a career diplomat and international development professional. Before joining NDI as its director for Gender, Women and Democracy in 2014, she spent thirteen years as a senior officer at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), including leading programs in the Caribbean, Rwanda-Burundi and Sudan. Prior to joining DFID, Sandra spent time in British domestic politics; lecturing in political science and international relations at the University of Ghana; and as a political analyst in the Political Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has a portfolio of skills and experience which include strategy development, political and risk analysis, diplomacy, general management and corporate governance.Birgitta Ohlsson serves as the National Democratic Institute’s director of political parties. She has over twenty years of experience as a leader at the national level in political parties, leadership, feminism, civil society and foreign policy She entered politics formally in 1999 when was elected president of Liberal Youth of Sweden. In 2002, she was elected for as a member of the Swedish Parliament, where she served until 2018, serving in numerous leadership roles, including in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and as her party’s spokesperson. Between 2010 and 2014, she was the Swedish Minister for European Affairs and Democracy issues, serving as a strong international voice on gender equality, democracy and LGBTI-rights. She has also been the President of the women´s wing of the Liberal Party (2007-2010) and founded an independent Feminist Network, Felira, in 2003.Sandra Pepera and Birgitta Ohlsson of the National Democratic Institute talk about their work trying to get more women into the electoral process around the globe. We dish on:What it was actually like for Birgitta to be 'in power' as a Government Minister and Parliamentarian  How they are working with male politicians who have been in power for years to convince them to support getting more women into elected office   What women can do if their power frightens male politiciansHow they each got 'in their power' to do this world-changing workI hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Sandra and Birgitta are leading the way for women in politics and analyzing how they can be strong in political power.Please let me know your thoughts! Connect with Sandra PeperaSandra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrapepera?National Democratic Institute on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NDIWomenConnect with Dr. Sharon MelnickWebsite: https://www.sharonmelnick.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmelnick/Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSharonMelnickLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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