Your Worthy Career

Most of the women I coach in pharma and biotech are worried AI will eventually take their jobs. 

AI is risking your opportunities, but not in the way you think.

When you use AI for cover letters and resumes, the data show it lessens your chances of getting an interview or an offer. New labor economics research shows what that is costing you, and the opportunity.

When you use your own words, this can be your competitive edge and increase your chances of getting an interview and offer. In this episode, we are talking about how AI takes your voice and how now is the time to be more authentic and lean into the words only you can say.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Where AI is taking opportunities from you (and it's not your job)
• What the research says happens to AI-written cover letters
• Why sounding perfect doesn’t get you more interviews
• How to use AI as a tool without letting it take your voice
• Why now is your biggest opportunity to stand out by being you

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Should You Stay or Should You Go? In this episode, I walk through the signs that something has to change, and then the actual decision logic I use with clients who are weighing an internal move against a full exit.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The 7 signs it is time for a change
• Why feeling valued and being valued are not the same thing
• The two questions I ask before anyone decides to leave
• What it usually means when you are still asking the question
• The first step when you do not know what you want yet

Mentioned in this episode:

• Register for the training September 22nd: The Exception: Be the Leader Pharma and Biotech Can’t Overlook
• Enrollment for The Right Move Protocol is opening Sept 21-28. Learn more and join the waitlist.

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My client, Jennifer, spent four plus years as a clinical trial manager. Her leadership praised her, handed her work well above her level, and yet, her promotion didn't come. She had become too useful exactly where she was.

Jen came into The Right Move Protocol with a one year goal. In just one month she had a promotion she was not expecting. A short time later she identified her ideal role with her dream company. By using the skills she learned and applying her growth mindset she negotiated and accepted an Associate Director position in a therapeutic area she had been trying to get into for years. She did it while her family had more going on than she ever could have anticipated.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What "developed in place" really means, and why the praise is not progress
• Jen's 90% rule for deciding before you feel ready
• Why the part of the program she dreaded is the part that got her results the quickest
• What she says to anyone who thinks her results were luck or timing
• The negotiation truth that follows you from job to job

Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn here.

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You put together the strategy your VP loves, then your own manager tears it apart, and you're left standing in the middle with no one publicly on your side. Or your name isn't in the meeting where decisions about your own project get made, and you find out after the fact what everyone else already agreed to. 

In pharma and biotech, matrix teams and shifting priorities make this common, not personal, and most women read it as proof there's nothing they can do. That belief is the actual problem. This episode breaks down exactly what to do about it, so you stop waiting for the room to change and start leading it.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why conflicting feedback from your stakeholders isn't a dead end
• The real reasons you get left out of decision-making meetings
• How to get buy-in from a stakeholder who doesn't think like you do
• What radical responsibility looks like when no one seems to have your back
• The three-step shift I coach inside The Right Move Protocol every week

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In this episode, I sit down with Christine Hummel, a healthcare executive with 25 years across the pharmacy benefit manager side, retail and specialty pharmacy, distribution, and pharma manufacturing, including running US Trade and Channel for a major pharma company. 

Christine has hired teams, rebuilt teams, and decided who gets advocated for the next role many times over, and in this conversation she breaks down exactly what she looks for, and why so many high performers stay stuck chasing a title instead of doing what actually gets them promoted.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why chasing the next title can actually slow you down
• What Christine actually looks for before she puts someone's name up for a promotion
• The one question to ask yourself before you consider leaving your company for a title
• How to build a network that gets you noticed without waiting to be chosen
• Why AI belongs in your career strategy starting now, not later

Connect with Christine:

• Connect with Christine on LinkedIn here.
• Listen to the Root to Rising podcast here.
• Tune in to my interview on the Root to Rising podcast in the episode, How to Build a Career You Don't Need to Escape From, here.

Get the Book: Your Worthy Career: A Science-Backed Method to Build a Meaningful Career in Pharma and Biotech here.

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This week I'm bringing back an episode that I think speaks to what you might be going through right now.

Brena is a Principal Scientist and member of my group coaching program, The Right Move Protocol® (formerly Beyond the Ceiling). She is sharing why she joined the group, what it's like on the inside, and the results she experienced that blew her mind. Tune in for this candid conversation about what it's like to work in the industry and the unexpected results she experienced when she invested in herself.

Brena’s views on this episode do not reflect the company she works for. These are her personal insights based on her experience and expertise in the Pharma/Biotech space and in her experience as my Coaching client.

What you'll learn:

• Why Brena chose to invest in her career even when she had reasons not to
• The power of having a community of like minded women to support you in your career growth
• How Brena landed her ideal job, built her confidence, and created more time with her family than she thought was possible
• The advice she wish she had earlier in her career and a message for anyone who thinks that the results she achieved aren't possible for them

Mentioned in this episode:

• Connect with Brena Williams on LinkedIn
• Enrollment for The Right Move Protocol® is open until July 16th. Learn more and schedule your consultation to join: www.yourworthycareer.com/protocol

Get the Book: Your Worthy Career: A Science-Backed Method to Build a Meaningful Career in Pharma and Biotech here.

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You did everything right, made it to the final round, and still got the call: number two. In a competitive Pharma and Biotech search, coming in second rarely means you failed. Often it means you are in the right arena, against strong people, with a process that is finally working.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What coming in second really means in a Pharma search
• The 5 things to do to rebound after you come in close but do not get it
• The one question to ask next time so you do not get surprised again
• Why your brain fixates on the offer instead of the progress
• How a "loss" can set up the role you actually want

If you are sitting in the waiting and the second-guessing right now, this one is for you.

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I coach women through interviews all the time. So when I had to sit in one myself, for the first time in over 12 years, I learned something I want you to hear. Even though interviewing is something I teach regularly, doing it myself, under pressure, with the outcome out of my hands, was a different experience. So I recorded a raw voice memo the moment I walked out, before I knew if I got in. In this episode I play you that unedited memo, then break down exactly what I did so you can do it too.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why I prepared with bullets instead of a script, and what I put on that list before I had my panel interview
• The kinds of questions I asked that took the interrogation feeling out of the room and got me real answers
• What I watched for across everyone I talked to, and what that one pattern told me about the culture
• The question almost nobody asks at the end of an interview, and why one interviewer lit up when I asked it
• Why the confidence I felt walking out had nothing to do with whether I got the spot

I received the outcome two months later. I'll tell you how it went, and why the answer matters less than you think.

REGISTER: The next Strategy Hour for Women in Pharma and Biotech is July 9th. Secure your spot here.

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Sitting on the fence feels like the smart move. You weigh the pros and cons, you do the research, you tell yourself now isn't the right time. But indecision is still a decision, and in a pharma career it has a cost. The promotion you're not sure you're ready for. The role you can't decide is right. The difficult stakeholder you don't know how to handle. 

Every time you stay on the fence to avoid the discomfort of the unknown, you make less progress and you quietly hand the opportunity to someone who decided faster. This episode is about why we do it, and how to get down.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What sitting on the fence really means
• The questions that expose the real reason you're not making a decision
• How to calculate the actual cost of indecision before it costs you in your career
• Where certainty about a decision actually comes from

Get the Book: Your Worthy Career: A Science-Backed Method to Build a Meaningful Career in Pharma and Biotech here.

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This episode is for the woman in pharma or biotech who has strong performance reviews, a supportive boss, colleagues who rave about her, and still can't get the move she wants. We're getting into the difference between activity and strategic visibility — why being known is not the same as being positioned, and how to fill the gap.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why you can be exceptionally well-positioned with your immediate team and completely invisible to the people who actually control what's next for you
• The difference between being valued and being someone the organization has a stake in keeping
• The nuance in visibility and positioning that can result in roles being created for you even when there isn't an allocated budget

Monday May 28th - Strategy Hour for Women in Pharma - Limited to 25 women. Register at https://yourworthycareer.com/strategy-hour 

Get the Book: Your Worthy Career: A Science-Backed Method to Build a Meaningful Career in Pharma and Biotech here.

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