Leading pharma and biotech teams through constant change.
The pressures rarely come one at a time. Patent cliffs eroding revenue, portfolios shifting to specialty and precision medicine, payers and HTA bodies gating access, pricing under public scrutiny, AI arriving fast, and reorganization never far away. Any one of these would be a full agenda. You’re leading through all of them at once.
And you’re doing it with people — across science and commercial, across global and local — while patient safety, compliance and scientific integrity stay non-negotiable no matter how much pressure you’re under to move faster.
This programme is space to step back and sharpen how you lead through exactly that: the agility to stay clear under pressure, the credibility to lead across very different teams, and the steadiness to keep people with you through constant change. You leave with tools you can use on Monday.
You lead a team, function or business in a pharmaceutical or biotech organization, and you’re accountable for taking it through constant change. You already lead with authority — now you want the agility, judgement and reach to lead at the next level.
Develops leaders who can hold performance while guiding the organization through disruption — sharpening decision-making, cross-functional execution, and the leadership bench pharma’s next decade depends on.
The pressures are real and simultaneous: patent cliffs, portfolios moving to specialty and precision medicine, payers gating access, AI arriving fast, reorganization never far away. You cut through them to a clear view of what’s actually moving your business — and leave with the two or three shifts only you can lead.
You work on understanding stakeholder needs, patient pathways and customer journeys, and embedding customer-centricity into commercial strategy and daily execution.
You lead people who don’t speak the same language: scientists and clinicians who trust evidence and rigour, commercial teams who move on markets and speed. You work on bridging the two — earning credibility with both, translating between them, and getting them building the same thing instead of pulling apart.
Global strategy meets local reality, and you’re accountable across the gap. You strengthen how you align headquarters and affiliates, and how you pull the wider functions you depend on — medical, market access, regulatory, commercial — in the same direction without owning them.
Restructuring, cost pressure and shifting priorities wear people down, and your best scientific and commercial talent has options. You work on keeping teams motivated, engaged and performing through sustained change — and leading with a steadiness people stay for.
You pull it together into a concrete plan: the shifts you’ll lead, the capabilities you’ll build, the habits that keep you ahead. You leave ready to lead differently on day one.
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Get in touch with the MCE team to learn more about implementing this programme for your team.
Get in touch with the MCE team to learn more about implementing this programme for your team.
Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy
Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy
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