DIA 2025 Global Annual Meeting

Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate

This session will present two contrasting approaches to workforce development which address the challenges in attracting and retaining the ideal talent. First, what can pharma learn from other industries who have developed a remote, agile and on-demand talent base responsive to changing needs. Second a case study in meeting the challenge of extraordinary growth in product pipeline and expansion by implementing an integrated, multi-faceted, workforce development ecosystem in collaboration with academic institutions and other manufacturing companies that also builds and sustains the local economy.

Learning Objectives

Discuss how to maximize agility and attract the best talent to get the critical work of drug development and manufacturing done; Identify novel approaches to developing and retaining a skilled workforce capable of meeting the needs of a highly regulated industry; Recognize how the organization can achieve unprecedented agility by embracing the Future of Work tools and methodologies.

Chair

Denyse Baker, RAC

Speaker

Far Beyond Remote Work: NASA, The Ford Motor Company, and The New World of Work - Opportunities for Pharma
Sheila Mahoney Jewels, MBA

Looking Internally and Externally to Optimize Workforce Development
Dedric Day