2022's World-Class Speaker Faculty of Life Sciences HR Leaders:






2022 Highlights

How Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals are reimagining how to effectively bridge multiple locations and match the speed of technological innovation with organizational innovation.

How Atara Biotherapeutics is enriching its wellbeing program and providing robust mental health benefits far beyond the national average resulting in drastically reduced absenteeism.

The 10x Genomic’s promise and how it has transformed performance management and provided new opportunities to its entire workforce within a fast-paced scaling environment.

How Silk Road Medical’s Cartwheel Culture has enabled it to retain a motivated team and driveinnovation in the face of ‘The Great Resignation’.

The way BridgeBio is putting their patients and people first through a robustdiversity, equity and inclusion strategy.

HR innovators at Gilead Sciences are utilizing relationships with universities to build interest in biotech career opportunities and externally cultivate talent.

How Codex DNA has broken away from the standard employee survey and embraced companywide transparency to align individualand company values and drive people purpose.

How Cue Health was able to grow tenfold in just one year and successfully scale to a global level almost overnight.

4D Molecular Therapeutics’ multifaceted ‘HR Cares Model’ and how it has been developed alongside their guiding principles to drive innovation and growth without compromising on employee experience.

How Calico Labs, a company without equity, is reimagining what it can do to compete with high-growth biotech start-ups in the Bay Area.
Hear what HR leaders have to say about attending:
“Now that we’re all facing very similar issues as a result of COVID-19, including the impacts of remote work, inclusion, wellbeing and mental health of our workforces, it’s never been more important for life sciences HR leaders to get together at LEAP HR: Life Sciences West and learn from each other” – Sheela Krothapalli, Head of People Operations, Verily
“Informative and inspirational. I was interested in the combination of senior HR professionals with the industry focus. I brought back a number of ideas which I’ve implemented right away.” – Nancy Fairchild, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Luminex
“An engaging, interactive conference where ideas and leaps are shared and examined. A rare opportunity to learn new things, validate what we might already be doing, and consider improving what we have in place.”- Luan Wilfong, Vice President Human Resources, Revolution Medicines
“LEAP HR: Life Sciences offered an excellent venue to collaborate and brainstorm with senior level HR practitioners. 10 out of 10.” - Erin Krolikiewicz, Lead, Talent Discovery, Research and Early Development, Genentech