A Leadership Development Program for Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry

• Activity Number: 343
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Biopharmaceutical Section
• Author(s): Paul H. Berg*+ and Christopher M. Glitzer and Walter W. Offen and Shanthi Sethuraman and Gary R. Sullivan and Yoko Tanaka and Sandra L. Toledo Marquette and Ilker Yalcin and Aarti S. Shah
• Companies: Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company
• Keywords: leadership ; career development ; pharmaceutical industry

Abstract

Developing leaders with scientific, therapeutic area, and business knowledge is essential for statistics organizations in the pharma industry. We built a leadership development program with three main goals: (1) improve statisticians' ability to lead and influence innovation, knowledge management and operational excellence; (2) get statisticians involved in critical business decision making across the value chain; and (3) attract, develop, and retain the best leaders. The first part of the program is targeted to all statisticians; it includes a competency database, examples of leaders in statistics, and leadership seminars. The second part of the program is targeted to statisticians with high leadership potential; it includes 4 multi-day, highly interactive events that include exposure to other internal and external leaders. Assessment of leadership skills is surveyed periodically.