Working in Life Sciences: Talent Recruitment, Retention & Engagement

This week, Stacey is joined by Robin Toft to talk about the challenges of attracting and hiring top talent, tactics for building and retaining a workforce, and the technologies that are changing the ways we recruit, hire, and train our teams. Stacey and Robin also discuss which areas are in the most demand, talent management strategies, career path planning, and much more.

Resources from this episode:

Talent 2020: Surveying The Talent Paradox From The Employee Perspective: The View From The Life Sciences Sector https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/mx/Documents/human-capital/Talent_2020_LifeSciences.pdf

WE CAN: The Executive Woman's Guide to Career – on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/WE-CAN-Executive-Womans-Advancement/dp/1949635031

WE CAN: The Executive Woman's Guide to Career – on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43533323-we-can

We Can Rise Community https://wecanrisecommunity.com/

About Our Guest:

Robin Toft is the founder and CEO of Toft Group a ZRG Company, where she combines a deep inside knowledge of the life science industry with a passion for building game-changing management teams. A champion of diverse executive teams, Robin has built a reputation for recruiting women and minorities into top roles and helping the life science industry overcome unconscious bias in hiring. Having successfully sold Toft Group to ZRG Partners, Robin co-founded We Can Rise in 2020, a B-corporation aimed at helping aspiring female executives to confidently reach their potential while achieving balance and collaborating to build healthier companies that change the world. Prior to founding Toft Group in 2010, Robin served 20+ years as a biotech executive. Robin’s first book entitled WE CAN, The Executive Woman’s Guide to Career Advancement, is recognized within the list of 100 Best CEO Books of All Time by BookAuthority and won Gold for Best E-book in the International Business Awards. In the American Business Awards for 2020, Robin won Gold in the three major individual categories of Lifetime Achievement, Maverick of the Year, and Woman of the Year. She also won Gold for Most Innovative Woman of the Year in the Women in Business Awards for 2020.

Robin currently serves on the boards of T2 Biosystems, Syapse, California Life Science Association (CLSA), The Clearity Foundation, and LEAD San Diego. Robin holds a B.S. in Medical Technology from Michigan State. Voices in Validation brings you the best in validation and compliance topics.

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