In Spring 2020, a pioneering group of life sciences people leaders decided that trying to work out how to respond to the people challenges presented by the pandemic in isolation just wasn’t an effective use of their time.   

Given the fact that everyone was facing the same challenges, they quickly realised it made much more sense to work together with their peers throughout the year to tackle the challenges they shared. This is why Searchlight was created.  

It wasn’t enough for them to just be part of a tactical email list or rely on their existing ‘speed-dial’ network. This group recognised that they were also being presented with once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink the way HR is done in life sciences in a post-pandemic world.  

Whether it’s ever-present challenges like those of rapid scale, cultural evolution or doing more with less, or emerging issues like pay transparency, next-generation leadership development or AI, there’s a never-ending list of challenges coming around the corner that we need to be prepared for.  

Searchlight has been created by the industry, for the industry to provide the most proactive, future-focused life sciences organizations with a structured, strategic, year round opportunity to get the whole HR organization to inspired, energized and ready for action.