Leadership Lab

Targeted webinars

For our quarterly professional development masterclasses, we bring in outside experts like executive coaches and authors to advise our members on key skills for our profession. These sessions offer fresh ideas and practical applications to help members navigate and excel in their roles. More details on our Q1 masterclass coming soon!

Q2 2025 Leadership Lab Masterclass
Building Trust & Leading Without Authority: Strategies for Team Cohesion and Engagement

Unlock the secrets to creating and leading high-performing teams with our comprehensive workshop. Whether you’re an aspiring leader or an experienced manager, this session is designed to provide practical insights and strategies for cultivating collaboration, identifying and nurturing talent, conducting effective performance evaluations, and boosting team motivation and engagement.

Q3 2025 Leadership Lab Masterclass
Networking Redefined: Lead with the Value You Can Contribute

As communicators, our role is often to work with C-suite and other executives on their narratives and messaging. We don’t usually think of ourselves as brands. But with the changing environment and industry consolidations, it’s never been more important to be in the driver’s seat in communicating the value we can provide. And the best time to do this is not when we need it.

Join us in September for an interactive workshop led by Monique Kelley, Associate Professor of Strategic Communication, Boston University’s College of Communication and CEO and Founder of Monique Kelley Consulting, LLC. For the past two and a half years, Monique has been working with Fortune 100 and global biopharmaceutical companies as a fractional communications head solely through word-of-mouth, organic posts/storytelling on LinkedIn and networking. Not one cent spent on paid advertising or a website. She has been at full capacity with clients and often refers companies to trusted former coworkers, creating win-win opportunities

Monique is currently writing a book on relationship-based networking to encourage others to lead with the value they can contribute and conducting workshops, like this one, for her clients.

Whether you like networking, cringe at the thought of it or already do it effectively, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn something new with regards to showing up for your network.

Corporate Advisor Series

This two-month program is tailored for senior biopharma communicators aiming to strengthen their influence. Facilitated by executive coach Carly Goldsmith, the series explores leadership through three lenses: leading the business, yourself, and others. Participants also receive two one-on-one coaching sessions to address unique challenges and refine their approach.

You Should Apply If You’re a Communicator Who …

• Is in upper middle-management or are a first-time executive leader
• Has several years of supervisory experience under your belt
• Seeks a “safe space” sounding board and real-world knowledge sharing (not only the wins, but the hard truths, too)

At-a-Glance What You Get

• Six one-hour facilitated meetings with a cohort of up to 18 senior peers
• Two private one-hour executive coaching sessions
• Two small-group pod discussions with a subset of peers, for in-depth relationship-building

Program Synopsis
As the original premium offering in Ticket to Biotech’s Leadership Lab program, the Corporate Advisor Series is back in 2025!

This program highlights the comms function’s evolution toward a strategic corporate affairs role by exploring leadership in three parts: leading yourself, leading others, and leading the business.

Executive coach Carly Goldsmith will facilitate a blend of interactive executive development and practical application sessions that empower senior professionals from agency, consultancy, and in-house backgrounds to challenge conventional preconceptions, augment your critical business advisory skills, and enhance your effectiveness in decision-making roles.

You’ll also meet individually with Carly for two one-hour coaching session to address any specific challenges, further improve personal leadership skills, and directly apply learnings from the workshop.

What to Expect: ROI

• Exclusive Networking: Connect with other veteran biopharma communicators facing similar challenges, sharing learnings and best practices.
• Executive Professional Development: Capitalize on small-group leadership coaching to hone competencies tailored to the unique demands of our highly specialized profession.
• Enhanced Leadership Influence: Gain skills to position the comms function – whether you’re an individual contributor or lead a large team – as a key decision-making partner.

Program Schedule

Module 1: Self-Leading
Evolving Comms roles means that more and more will be demanded of us. A rapidly changing, complex and ambiguous world requires communicators to increase self-awareness and self-management. By fostering self-trust and embracing vulnerability, we can cultivate positive and sustainable practices and embrace a growth mindset. Reflecting on the beliefs and doubts that might be holding us back, we’ll learn strategies for increasing the self-management and confidence required to meet these demands. In week 2, Carly will guide a practical applications lab where participants can discuss both learnings and fears, from managing stress to imposter syndrome.

• Week 1: Interactive Executive Coaching Session
  Wednesday, April 9th @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET
• Week 2: Practical Application Lab
  Wednesday, April 16th @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET
• Small-group pod meeting
  Week of April 21st

Module 2: Leading Others
Whether leading a department of one or of many, biopharma communicators are building relationships down, up, across, and sometimes outside of the organization. Alignment with key stakeholders on our business function’s goals and objectives, strategy, and scope undoubtedly will become even more integral to our success with the evolution of our role. Carly will coach us on approaches to effectively provide feedback to colleagues, collaborate with others across the organization or client base, and develop staff to meet the expanded demands of both the business and the role in this changing environment. Our final practical applications lab will offer a space to reflect on the considerations and challenges of managing expectations, relationships, and teams.

• Week 3: Interactive Executive Coaching Session
  Wednesday, April 30th @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET
• Week 4: Practical Application Lab
  Wednesday, May 7th @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET
• Small-group pod meeting
  Week of May 12th

Module 3: Leading the Business
Whether you have seat at the table or are trying to get one, the ability to express a point of view and influence the direction of the business is critical. Carly will equip the group with new ways to advocate for the role Comms/Corporate Affairs can play in the success of the business. We’ll take a fresh look at opportunities to effectively advise leaders on what to do and where to invest to drive business goals and decisions, as well as how to educate key stakeholders — whether internal business partners or clients — on the most effective means of collaborating with our function. Our practical applications lab in week 2 will provide a supportive space for participants to share insights, experiences, and strategies for growth with one another.

• Week 5: Interactive Executive Coaching Session
  Wednesday, May 21st @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET
• Week 6: Practical Application Lab
  Wednesday, May 28th @ 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET

Two 1:1 One-Hour Individual Executive Coaching Sessions
In this customized 1:1 coaching session with Carly, you’ll have an opportunity to address any specific challenges you’re having, enhance your personal leadership skills, and directly apply learnings from the workshops. You’ll be able to schedule these sessions at your convenience between Modules 1 and 2 and between Modules 2 and 3, respectively. Details to be provided following program acceptance.

About Our Facilitator
Carly Goldsmith is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 20 years of experience coaching high-potential senior and emerging leaders and their teams. She is a versatile and trusted partner who supports leaders to create real impact and sustainable results through improvements in their effectiveness, cohesion, and performance. Compassionate and intuitive by nature, Carly’s style is often described as engaging, insightful, and empowering. Carly has coached leaders across multiple industries throughout the US and globally. In addition to her coaching, she has designed and facilitated in-person and virtual workshops, leadership development programs and team coaching engagements. Recent clients include Deloitte, Amazon, Charles River Associates, Verve, ImmunoGen/AbbVie, Teradata, Alnylam, Dragonfly, Broad Institute, Mass General Brigham, Dana Farber, Alexion, Morgan Stanley, SCAN Foundation, and Needham Bank.

Certifications/Credentials:
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
• The LVI 360 (Kaiser Leadership)
• The Hogan Suite
• Embodied Transformation (Strozzi Institute)
• Benson-Henry Stress Management & Resiliency Training program
• Fearless Organization Scan (Psychological Safety)
• Smart Collaboration Accelerator
• Team Coaching Core Program (Corentus)
• Team Diagnostics (Team Coaching International)
• Voices 360 (Korn Ferry)
• EQ-I 2.0 (MHS)
• MBTI

Frequently asked questions
What kind of communicators can participate in this program?
If you’re already a T2B member and have at least 10 years of biopharma comms experience, you’re already eligible to join. If you’re new to T2B, confirm your eligibility here and request to join here before registering for this program. Note that our spring 2025 cohort is limited to 18 senior biopharma communicators, and program acceptance subject to T2B organizer discretion.

Do you offer refunds?
Each submission will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, with full refunds issued only for any unapproved applications. Under no other circumstances will we issue refunds. Otherwise, the program fee is nonrefundable. In certain circumstances, we may be able to switch your registration with an alternate program candidate on the waitlist, though this is not a guarantee. Contact us at tickettobiotech@gmail.com for details.

Is there a waitlist?
Contact us at tickettobiotech@gmail.com and we’ll add you to the waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis.

What if I can’t join all six sessions?
We understand that things come up – no problem. We encourage you to catch up on key takeaways via our email recaps. (There will be no makeup sessions.) You’ll have the opportunity to schedule both of your 1:1 one-hour executive coaching sessions with Carly at your convenience in April and May, respectively.

Will workshop sessions be recorded?
To preserve confidentiality, the sessions will not be recorded, but we’ll provide session recaps to the cohort.

Applications open in February for the next offering of this popular series, which will kick off in April. Additional fees apply.