2024 Workshop Calendar

Curated for each member of your HR team

As part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight membership, your whole HR team can gain access to regular workshops, each of which has been carefully curated and separated into functional cohorts, ensuring hyper relevant and beneficial actionable takeaways for each attendee. 

These expert-led sessions are designed to be an immersive learning experience, jam-packed with exclusive, never seen before content that you won't see anywhere else, offering deep insights and innovative ideas specific to Life Sciences people challenges.

Connect and network with like-minded professionals and industry leaders, gain invaluable go-to thought partners and diverse perspectives. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge, expand your professional network, and stay ahead of the curve.

2024 Meeting Calendar:

October

  • Date: Thursday, October 3
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Talent Acquisition Leaders
  • Topic: Scaling Talent Acquisition: What Next Gen Org Design Principles do we Need to Apply
  • Key Takeaways:
    • What efficiencies can be added as we scale our organizations to ensure we remain as lean as we need to be?
    • What lessons can we learn from our attempts to scale in the past? What’s worked? What’s not? What’s needed?
    • What traditional thinking needs to be challenged as we scale to allow us to develop an efficient, effective next generation talent acquisition function?
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

  • Date: Thursday, October 10
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Strategic HR Leaders
  • Topic: Emerging Biopharma Coffee Connect Facilitated Meeting
  • Key Takeaways:
    • What are the biggest challenges, strategic questions or stubborn problems you are currently facing which you’d benefit from input from your peers to help solve?
    • Bring it to the coffee connect session, and we’ll ensure you’ve get input from similar sized companies who may have faced similar challenges in the past
    • The informal, semi-structured nature of the session is designed to allow candid exchange of experiences and opinions in a safe space of hyper-relevant peers
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

  • Date: Tuesday, October 22
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Total Rewards Partners
  • Topic: What’s Next for Pay Transparency & How do our Approaches to it Need to Evolve?
  • Key Takeaways:
    • How has the conversation around pay transparency developed since the first legislation was introduced in 2023?
    • How does our approach need to evolve in the future as new legislation emerges across the country and around the world?
    • How has our approach to equipping leaders to have the conversations required to succeed here developed and what’s still needed for us to be truly successful?
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

  • Date: Thursday, October 31
  • Curated for: Life Sciences HR Business Partners
  • Topic: Managing Disruption & Times of Rapid (& Sometimes Unexpected) Change in Biopharma
  • Key Takeaways:
    • How does life sciences HR need to set itself up to drive the innovation needed to address today’s disruption and rapid change?
    • How transparency, agility, focus and mind-set are four key pillars of adaptive HR leadership enabling you and your business to thrive in times of change
    • The importance of taking a human-centered approach to deal with business disruption and significant change in life sciences
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

November

  • Date: Thursday, November 7
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Strategic HR Leaders
  • Topic: Activating AI in Life Sciences HR interactive deep dive: Leadership and Culture
  • Key Takeaways:
    • Defining and enabling new leadership practices to drive the positive culture change critical to thriving in the age of AI inside your organization
    • Identifying the most critical areas which can make or break whether a transformation, reinvention or change effort is successful
    • How generative AI can help life sciences organizations of all sizes effectively navigate the change process at each step of the way

 

  • Date: Thursday, November 21
  • Curated for: Life Sciences HR Business Partners
  • Topic: CHRO Q&A: 3 Key Habits of effective Life Science HRBPs
  • Key Takeaways:
    • Habit 7: Demonstrating digital fluency for an AI-centric future
    • Habit 8: Balancing data, business and strategy with empathy, humility and humanity
    • Habit 9: Learning the art of expansive listening to drive effectiveness
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

  • Date: Thursday, November 14
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Talent Acquisition Leaders
  • Topic: What New Skills Will TA Leaders Need Tomorrow & How Do We Build Them Faster?
  • Key Takeaways:
    • How are the most progressive life sciences organizations retooling their talent acquisition functions with the skills to deliver future-ready performance?
    • Why TA leaders don’t always embrace the skills they need for the future and what should we do about that?
    • What are the new skills that we’ll need to develop inside our teams to allow us to scale in a digital life sciences industry?
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

  • Date: Thursday, November 28
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Strategic HR Leaders
  • Topic: Emerging Biopharma Coffee Connect Facilitated Meeting
  • Key Takeaways:
    • What are the biggest challenges, strategic questions or stubborn problems you are currently facing which you’d benefit from input from your peers to help solve?
    • Bring it to the coffee connect session, and we’ll ensure you’ve get input from similar sized companies who may have faced similar challenges in the past
    • The informal, semi-structured nature of the session is designed to allow candid exchange of experiences and opinions in a safe space of hyper-relevant peers
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

December

  • Date: Tuesday, December 3
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Total Rewards Partners
  • Topic: How Can We Unlock the Potential Presented by Gen AI in Total Rewards?
  • Key Takeaways:
    • In what ways do we think AI can be a strategic partner to us in developing and delivering a next generation total rewards strategy?
    • What challenges do we expect to face in the application of gen AI to total rewards and how might we be able to overcome them?
    • What lessons have been learned from those who’ve already leveraged AI to transform their approach to total rewards?
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

  • Date: Thursday, December 5
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Strategic HR Leaders
  • Topic: Activating AI in Life Sciences HR interactive deep dive: Turning Theory into Practice
  • Key Takeaways:
    • Dig deeper into the key themes we’ve addressed over the past 5 modules with the subject matter experts who have led them in a facilitated discussion session
    • Get answers to the questions which remain that stand between you and putting the new ideas you’ve gained into action in your operating environment
    • Find out how you can overcome the most common hurdles you’re likely to face at each step of your journey from AI experimenter to AI leader
  • Date: Thursday, December 12
  • Curated for: Life Sciences Strategic HR Leaders & HR Business Partners
  • Topic: Turning Generational Diversity into a Generational Differentiator
  • Key Takeaways:
    • What strategies have been tried to bridge generational divides in the life sciences workforce? What’s worked? And what’s not?
    • Best practices for engaging a multigenerational workforce: Tools for preparing your team and your organization for the future
    • Harnessing age diversity and encouraging mutual learning, cross-generational collaboration, and a culture that embraces similarities & differences across age groups
  • Join the Workshop
    • Register your interest in joining the workshop and gain a deeper understanding of the incredible value that comes with being part of the LEAP HR: Life Sciences Searchlight network. Your participation in the upcoming workshop is intended to give you a glimpse into the benefits of membership and by signing up, you are expressing interest in membership.

As such, the Network Enrolment Manager, Adam, will be in touch soon to discuss how the network aligns with your needs and interests and to facilitate your onboarding.

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