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Dive into STEM Impact with Jennifer Dominic (Part 2)!
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Dive into STEM Impact with Jennifer Dominic (Part 2)!

#founder #successstories #womeninstem In this second part of our interview with Jennifer, we dive into her Social Enterprise Wenite. A platform dedicated to nurturing the potential of students and professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and sectors. Jennifer shares how Wenite is empowering individuals to lead with innovation, contribute to global progress, and create a thriving interconnected network that shapes the future of STEM industries; through the unique offerings of exclusive programs, diverse resources, and industry insights. ▪︎Connect with Jennifer: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-dominic-5a82a7b9/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniifer_xx/ 📩 - wenite.academy@gmail.com ------------------ ▪︎Follow/Get in touch with Wenite LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wenite/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenitestem/ Website: https://www.wenite.co.uk/ ------------------ ▪︎Resource mentioned in the interview: https://www.coursera.org/ -------------- ▪︎About inSTEM inSTEM is a platform dedicated to empowering students and young professionals with access to the boundless career opportunities available within the STEM field. Through compelling narratives, mentorship, thought leadership insights, we empower individuals to unlock their full potential and forge their unique paths in this dynamic field. ▪︎Follow/Get in touch https://www.instagram.com/instemblog/... / instemblog https://www.linkedin.com/company/inst... 📩info@instemblog.com
From Labs to Leadership in STEM – Meet Scientist and Founder, Jennifer Dominic (PART 1)
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From Labs to Leadership in STEM – Meet Scientist and Founder, Jennifer Dominic (PART 1)

#stemcareers #successstories #womeninstem ▪︎Disclaimer: All thoughts, views and opinions expressed in this interview belong solely to the guest, and not necessarily to the guest's employer, organisation, committee or other group or individual. -------------------- Jennifer is a healthcare and life sciences leader, passionate about bringing medicines and vaccines to patients. Her roles have spanned R&D, Strategic Planning and Commercial Marketing and Social Entrepreneurship. She is also the founder of a career-focused social enterprise called Wenite, she dedicates much of her time to help the next generation of students and early career professionals understand the variety of careers available in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths #STEM wearing multiple hats such as CEO, CFO & CMO for the last 5 years In this interview, we explore her inspiring career journey, delving into how a financial hurdle during her preparation for higher education forced her to pivot, ultimately revealing a multitude of paths to achieve her desired impact. She shares how her diverse roles, from clinical labs to marketing, all contributed to a singular mission: improving patient access to life-saving medications. We'll also discover how getting involved in strategic initiatives at work can position you for accelerated career progression. But that's not all! Make sure you tune into Part Two where Jennifer shares how she’s using her expertise and experience to power a social enterprise (Wenite) that is making waves in the STEM world. ----------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:55 Icebreaker 01:54 Academic Journey 04:44 Taking a pause to clarify the right university degree that would help achieve desired impact 06:33 Bioscience vs other Science degrees 08:18 Making impact in the life sciences and healthcare sector 12:43 Making a career pivot from technical role to business role 17:59 Setting up the first (in Europe) Employee Resource Group for employees of African Descent at work ------------------ ▪︎Connect with Jennifer: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-dominic-5a82a7b9/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniifer_xx/ 📩 - wenite.academy@gmail.com ------------------ ▪︎Follow/Get in touch with Wenite YouTube: @wenite LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wenite/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenitestem/ Website: https://www.wenite.co.uk/ ------------------ ▪︎Resource mentioned in the interview: https://www.coursera.org/ -------------- ▪︎About inSTEM inSTEM is a platform dedicated to empowering students and young professionals with access to the boundless career opportunities available within the STEM field. Through compelling narratives, mentorship, thought leadership insights, we empower individuals to unlock their full potential and forge their unique paths in this dynamic field. ▪︎Follow/Get in touch https://www.instagram.com/instemblog/... / instemblog https://www.linkedin.com/company/inst... 📩info@instemblog.com
Career Journey Insights: Becoming a Managing Director/ General Manager (bio-pharmaceutical company)
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Career Journey Insights: Becoming a Managing Director/ General Manager (bio-pharmaceutical company)

An exclusive interview with David Peacock, currently President, Asia Pacific who recently transitioned from, Managing Director (General Manager), MSD in the UK and Ireland. David shares in this interview with his chief of staff (Jennifer) his journey on becoming a managing director since he graduated with his first degree. Over the course of his career, David has gained a broad set of leadership experiences, including: serving as the chief of staff for the office of the chairman, president and CEO of Merck & Co; serving as chief financial officer for MSD in Japan; leading the company’s business in Hong Kong & Macau; and successfully delivering in a variety of other commercial roles based in Japan, Vietnam, Singapore and the United States. Following business school, David spent time in Australia working for Bain & Co., a global strategic management consultancy. During this time, he also co-founded NUUN & Co., which develops and markets tablet-based electrolyte products. David received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, completed course work at the London School of Economics and has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Illinois. To find out more about what the role of the managing director / general manager looks like, watch the first part of David's video with his directorate team here: https://youtu.be/pBvqSLmazKg For more videos on various careers you can explore with a STEM background or within the STEM sector - visit our channel and subscribe! Check out our website and contact us if you have any questions: www.wenite.co.uk Thank you for watching.
A Day in the life of A Chief of Staff Executive Director for Europe and Canada in Bio-Pharma
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A Day in the life of A Chief of Staff Executive Director for Europe and Canada in Bio-Pharma

Robert John (Rob) Executive Director Strategic Planning, Chief of Staff Europe and Canada (EUCAN), MSD Human Health Rob began his CoS role in early 2021 having previously been responsible for Commercial Operations of our Oncology business across EMEAC. Focused on pan regional activities, processes and initiatives Rob works across the leadership team and markets to help ensure we can meet our goals for patients & MSD. His two previous positions in Oncology, initially for Mid-Europe (MER) and then EMEAC, centred on aligning and planning the activities needed to successfully launch KEYTRUDA in successive tumours including Go To Market planning, May/Nov FC submissions and overall leadership team governance. Before joining the region Rob worked in various roles within the MSD UK organisation including Marketing Operation & Channel strategy driving investments and capability building for our channel mix and digital customer engagement. Rob joined the industry in 2004 at AstraZeneca having graduated from the University of Bath in the UK with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Biology. Rob lives in Manchester UK with his wife Nicola, and young children Sophie & Alexander, outside of work Sophie & Alexander certainly keep him busy but when time permits he enjoys running and developing his amateur cooking ability! Rob believes in the vastness of learning - there is no clear career path, he explored instead of putting the pressure on himself to follow a straight path. Watch this interview to find out a day in this current role. All views shared in this video are personal views of the interviewer and their guests.
A Day in the life of A Corporate Affairs Executive Director in Bio-Pharma
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A Day in the life of A Corporate Affairs Executive Director in Bio-Pharma

Jo is a senior corporate communications professional who has worked domestically and at an international level. She is expert in devising and delivering integrated internal and external strategic communications and public affairs campaigns to support commercial objectives within complex organisations and across geographies. She is equipped with the ability to deploy the most appropriate communications channel according to the stakeholder. She is a strategic thinker with strong business, leadership, inter-personal and team management skills, used to operating at board level and advising CEOs. Jo currently leads MSD UK’s Human Health integrated communications and policy business unit, setting its policy and internal/external communications strategy and priorities, in line with the UK business strategy. She leads a team of over 20 professionals, working across MSD’s UK footprint, managing internal communications, social and digital media, government relations and stakeholder engagement. In this role she is responsible for ensuring that the political, policy and customer environment is enabling access to MSD’s medicines and vaccines, as well as managing our reputation. In partnership with Leadership Team colleagues, she also focus on the communication of our business transformation and employee engagement. Her prior experience includes working for Bayer, J&J and public affairs consultancies. Watch this video to find out what a typical day is for her and how she appreciates her work!
Being a founder & Switching careers and roles across STEM
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Being a founder & Switching careers and roles across STEM

Meet Jennifer & Adama, founders of Wenite & The Catalyst in Me (TCIM) as they talk to each other candidly about their passions for helping others and their career paths. Jennifer is a Healthcare and life sciences leader passionate about bringing medicines and vaccines to patients with a background in R&D Clinical Research, Cross-Enterprise Strategic Planning and Commercial Marketing. Key roles have spanned across: Lab Research, Clinical Quality Management, Clinical Research Monitoring, Chief of Staff for the UK and Ireland and currently leading MSD UKs Oncology Commercial Strategic Alliances. A strong advocate of diversity, equity and inclusion, Jennifer leads the League of Employees of African Descent (LEAD) EBRG for the European region as well as the UK chapter where she is currently based. Also, the founder of the career-focused social enterprise called Wenite, Jennifer dedicates much of her time to help the next generation of students and early career professionals understand the variety of careers available in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths #stem Adama is the Founder of a life science careers and science communication blog (The Catalyst In Me / TCIM for short). She spreads awareness on the different careers out there and encourages readers to engage with science topics on a regular basis. Her professional background covers both clinical and preclinical research. Her research interest are mainly cardiovascular where she has studied health outcomes of patients and worked on projects that advance the development of new therapeutic treatments
A Teaching Biologist with Investigative interests in Molecular Ecology
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How to become a senior lecturer in biology (animal science) and run a small business?
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How to become a senior lecturer in biology (animal science) and run a small business?

Joe is a Senior Lecturer in Biology/Animal Science in the Life Sciences Section at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). He carried out his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at CCCU before obtaining a postdoctoral research position at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU), where he conducted research into applied insect chemical ecology, before returning to a full time position at CCCU in 2012. Joe teaches across the science programs from Foundation Level through to MSc and PhD. Joe's primary interest is insect ecology, and how science can be used to solve problems in agriculture and biodiversity conservation. His PhD examined the interactions between male-killing endosymbiotic bacteria and biological control agents, which included research into aspects of insect chemical ecology, molecular biology, genetics and pure ecology. Recently he has been working towards the world’s first implementation of insect pheromones to monitor rare and endangered insects. Joe also works in a more applied setting with the agri-industries, having spent three years as a research consultant for Thanet Earth, the UK's leading glasshouse grower https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/inspire/articles/summer2017/farming-for-the-future.aspx, and now runs a small mushroom growing business, Edible Kingdom, in Kent. For more on Joe's research, see his ResearchGate and GoogleScholar profiles; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joe_Burman Joe BURMAN | Doctor of Philosophy | Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury | Department of Geographical and Life Science A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. www.researchgate.net http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=b3UjFSYAAAAJ&hl=en Watch this video to find out how he navigated his journey after completing his first degree in Biosciences. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Access to all our content is FREE! – If you love our content, click that like button, comment and subscribe. Join our community and follow our socials! https://www.wenite.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/wenitestem https://www.instagram.com/WeNitestem/ http://linkedin.com/company/wenite https://www.facebook.com/wenitestem/
Bio(Chemistry), Clin Ops & Tech | How I Became A Clinical Technology Innovation Leader?
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Pharma To Tech | What is it like to work at Google?
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Pharma To Tech | What is it like to work at Google?

Matt Robertson - Interview Operations Lead @Google Matt Robertson currently works in Interview Operations at Google, leading a team in EMEA who optimise the interview process across Google. His past experience amounts to 12+ years in the Pharmaceutical industry, starting as a University Placement student, then progressing through to Clinical Trial Monitoring, Process Improvement and Business Operations. His last role at Roche was Head of Business Support - Country Clinical Operations, which included oversight of contract, finance, resource & vendor management - as well as Study Start Up. Matt has a huge passion for leadership, and wanting to see people succeed. He's a firm believer in people recognising their strengths and identifying their own transferable skills to pursue their career goals, whether that be traditional or less conventional routes. Watch this video to find out how he navigated his journey after completing his pharmaceutical science degree. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Access to all our content is FREE! – If you love our content, click that like button, comment and subscribe. Join our community and follow our socials! https://www.wenite.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/wenitestem https://www.instagram.com/WeNitestem/ http://linkedin.com/company/wenite https://www.facebook.com/wenitestem/ #tech #science #pharma
From Pharma To Tech - How I became an interview operations lead in a tech company?
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From Pharma To Tech - How I became an interview operations lead in a tech company?

Matt Robertson - Interview Operations Lead @Google Matt Robertson currently works in Interview Operations at Google, leading a team in EMEA who optimise the interview process across Google. His past experience amounts to 12+ years in the Pharmaceutical industry, starting as a University Placement student, then progressing through to Clinical Trial Monitoring, Process Improvement and Business Operations. His last role at Roche was Head of Business Support - Country Clinical Operations, which included oversight of contract, finance, resource & vendor management - as well as Study Start Up. Matt has a huge passion for leadership, and wanting to see people succeed. He's a firm believer in people recognising their strengths and identifying their own transferable skills to pursue their career goals, whether that be traditional or less conventional routes. Watch this video to find out how she navigated her journey after completing her pharmacy degree. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Access to all our content is FREE! – If you love our content, click that like button, comment and subscribe. Join our community and follow our socials! https://www.wenite.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/wenitestem https://www.instagram.com/WeNitestem/ http://linkedin.com/company/wenite https://www.facebook.com/wenitestem/ #tech #science #pharma

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