Surviving, Thriving, and Advancing Your Career... While Enjoying Yourself

In this launch webinar for the HERizon Leadership Network, you’ll learn how to build a successful, resilient, and fulfilling career, while enjoying the journey, through the perspective of a biomedical researcher with over 40 years of experience.

In this webinar, you will:

• Understand how to navigate career decisions by aligning your professional goals, personal priorities, and willingness to compromise

• Learn practical strategies to build confidence, establish independence, and promote your work without alienating colleagues

• Gain insights into handling setbacks, discrimination, and challenges while continuing to grow and enjoy your scientific career

In this session, presented by HERizon Leadership in partnership with Bitesize Bio, you'll hear the strategies and approaches developed by Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg during her more than 40 years in biomedical research. These strategies enabled her to fully enjoy doing science while becoming a contributing member of the scientific community.

Selected by the HERizon Leadership Network for her depth of experience and inspiring career journey, Dr. Ostrand-Rosenberg, will reflect on the values and decisions that have shaped her path. While individual careers differ, this session will highlight core principles that can help researchers grow, adapt, and find long-term satisfaction in science.

Having a successful and satisfying career in almost all fields requires a mixture of creativity, confidence, competence, motivation, drive, ingenuity, persistence, and patience.

It can also require facing frustration, discrimination, setbacks, and a lack of opportunities.

There are various issues you need to think about when deciding on career choices. For example:

(i) What are your goals, both professionally and personally?

(ii) How ambitious are you?

(iii) Do you have geographic limitations?

(iv) Do you have a support network?

(v) Are you willing to compromise?

(vi) Do you want to become a leader in your field?

(vii) Are you willing to pursue opportunities?

(viii) Are you willing to stand up for yourself in difficult situations?

To advance yourself, it’s very important to have confidence in your abilities and establish yourself as a valued and independent contributor to your field. You need to promote your work and yourself in a fashion that gets you known in your field but doesn’t alienate your colleagues. Social skills and communication skills are essential.

The HERizon Leadership Network is a not-for-profit interest group dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and under-represented individuals in drug discovery. It works to break down barriers, open doors to opportunity, and amplify women’s voices in a field where their contributions might be overlooked.