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PRESS RELEASE

Pistoia Alliance Expands Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Program to Offer Rare Cross-Industry Collaboration Opportunity and Encourage Industry Transformation

Three-month program for life science industry will tackle unconscious bias against gender, race, age, and neurodiversity

Boston, US, November 30, 2022: The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has expanded its popular Women in STEM Leadership Program to include other underrepresented communities in a new 2023 initiative. The three-month program brings together leaders from life science and large pharmaceutical companies to offer an unmatched opportunity for participants to network and learn how they can better support D&I initiatives within their teams and companies. Longer term, the Alliance aims to build an alumni community of graduates from the program who will advocate a fairer working culture with more equal opportunities at a global scale. Both Pistoia Alliance members and non-members are invited to sign up for the new Diversity & Inclusion in STEM Leadership program, which starts in January 2023.

 

“While many companies have their own DE&I initiatives, our program offers a rare opportunity for leaders to share and compare their perspectives cross-company and globally, as well as benchmark their progress against the rest of the industry,” commented Anca Ciobanu, Program Lead at the Pistoia Alliance. “A major point of praise from our Women in STEM program was how the Pistoia Alliance was able to create a safe space where participants felt able to discuss both their experiences and how DE&I programs could be improved. Approaching these issues like a community helps leaders understand the similar challenges underrepresented groups are facing across the industry, and enables us to solve them faster, together.”

 

Initially, the Alliance chose to tackle the lack of women in STEM leadership positions, who make up only 16% of management and 3% of CEOs. Following the success of this program and at the request of members, the Alliance has expanded the focus to tackling other areas of inequality, including age, race, and neurodiversity. The fourteen-week virtual program takes an action-orientated approach, including role plays and scenarios that seek to uncover unconscious bias. Participants will work together to find solutions so that they are better prepared to overcome challenging situations for themselves and their team members.

 

“The program is like a vaccine – we expose leaders to trial situations to understand the root causes of how inequality manifests in the workplace and to uncover unconscious biases. Then when the participants experience these scenarios again, they know what the most appropriate action is – whether that’s being an ally or intervening themselves. Change has to come from the top down for life sciences to build a more inclusive culture,” added Ciobanu. “By the end of the program, each leader will be equipped to better support diversity programs at their respective companies. But we don’t want the program to simply end there – the Alliance will invite alumni to different events to meet other participants. To truly increase diversity we must keep the conversation going and continue collaborating on best practices.”

 

If you are interested in enrolling for the January cohort or helping to support or fund Pistoia Alliance’s Diversity & Inclusion in STEM Leadership program, please send an email to Diversity@PistoiaAlliance.org. For more information on the Pistoia Alliance, visit https://www.pistoiaalliance.org/.

 

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About the Pistoia Alliance
The Pistoia Alliance is a global, not-for-profit members’ organization made up of life science companies, technology, and service providers, publishers, and academic groups working to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare R&D. It was conceived in 2007 and incorporated in 2009 by representatives of AstraZeneca, GSK, Novartis, and Pfizer who met at a conference in Pistoia, Italy. Its projects transform R&D through pre-competitive collaboration. It overcomes common R&D obstacles by identifying the root causes, developing standards and best practices, sharing pre-competitive data and knowledge, and implementing technology pilots. There are currently over 200 member companies; members collaborate on projects that generate significant value for the worldwide life sciences R&D community, using The Pistoia Alliance’s proven framework for open innovation.

 

Media Contact:
Spark Communications
+44 207 436 0420
pistoiaalliance@sparkcomms.co.uk

 

Tanya Randall
Global Communication & Public Relations Lead, Pistoia Alliance
+44 7887 811332
tanya.randall@pistoiaalliance.org

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Posted on November 30, 2022 by Yasheaka Oakley
Categories: Diversity, Pistoia Alliance News

Tags: collaboration, diversity, pistoia alliance, Women in STEM


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