Culture Connect Roundtable
The T2B Culture Connect Roundtable brings biopharma communicators together to engage and excite one of their company’s most important audiences: Employees! This roundtable serves as a space for professionals across corporate, internal, agency, and consulting roles to exchange ideas and navigate the strategies and sometimes complex dynamics of employee engagement.
Now open! Apply for one of the five spots on the inaugural Culture Connect Roundtable.
Roundtable objectives
- Create a dedicated forum for biopharma communicators to focus “inward,” examining how to drive deeper connections with both current and prospective employees.
- Explore the full scope of employee engagement, including culture, trust, and internal communication.
- Facilitate knowledge-sharing around key employee engagement topics such as building psychological safety, aligning leadership and employee priorities, and responding to socio-political dynamics.
- Empower biopharma communicators to more effectively partner with leaders and cross-functional colleagues to shape an engaged and committed workforce.
Why join
- Leverage your enthusiasm for supporting employees and cultivating great workplaces into a forum for impactful conversations and shared insights.
- Play a leading role in shaping best practices for the biopharma industry on how to foster a culture of collaboration, motivation and productivity.
- Build meaningful connections and elevate your reputation as a thought leader within T2B’s community of 800+ communicators.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants must have:
- A passion for employee engagement.
- The ability to volunteer 3-5 hours/month to co-create quarterly Culture Connect events and monthly resources for the broader T2B community.
- The drive to participate in quarterly roundtable team meetings and contribute ideas and feedback.
- An active T2B Pro membership.
About the chair
Meredith Kiernan, Managing Director, Brand Experience, Waterhouse Brands
Meredith is a seasoned healthcare communicator who has advised some of the industry’s most compelling companies as they build their corporate reputations across life stages from start-up to commercial. Meredith joined boutique life science agency Waterhouse Brands as employee #2 in 2017 after leading integrated marketing and brand strategy engagements for companies of all stages and sizes at Real Chemistry (formerly W2O Group).
Today, as the Managing Director, Brand Experience, Meredith is Waterhouse’s in-house subject matter expert on corporate and employer brand strategy and activation. Approaching every engagement from a brand-first mindset, her specialties include positioning businesses, products, and initiatives for launch/relaunch; synthesizing customer, competitive and market insights into meaningful brand narratives and experiences; and helping her clients create and implement successful employee engagement marketing and communications programs.
Current and past clients include Adverum, BioMarin, Cardinal Health, Cerus Corporation, Exelixis, GBT, Intuitive Surgical, Kyverna, MyoKardia, Nurix, Pardes Biosciences, Principia BioPharma, Proteus Digital Health, Resilience, Twist Bioscience and Vaxcyte.
Apply
Applications are now open and close on February 10, 2025. Each member term is for one calendar year.
“The Culture Connect Roundtable partners with the T2B community to explore the transformative impact of corporate culture on employee engagement, company differentiation and business performance.”
