Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Avet provides high quality generic medicines that help patients and practitioners achieve affordable healthcare solutions. Our global supply chain network is built around centers of manufacturing and scientific excellence to provide you with the highest level of quality, safety, value and service in generics.

Head of Supply Chain

#EverydayLeaders Interview Series

What's the Most Effective Leadership Tool?

Brady Pyle had great advice...

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I often tell leaders that your most powerful leadership tool is a mirror

You need to start by knowing yourself, your strengths and weaknesses

I like to surround myself with people who are different from me in a variety of ways--how they grew up, personality and communication style, and leadership strengths

I also regularly seek customer feedback about the performance of my team members

Brady Pyle

Bill Castengera had this bit of advice to new and emerging #leaders:

It is easy to get caught up in tasks, but people want leaders who slow down, listen to concerns and take actions that address those concerns.

The question of whether we should push our employees or pull our employees can be a tough one.

Have high standards. If you lead correctly, your employees will want to do their best to match or exceed those standards.

Bill Castengera

1906

Nuka Foods is a privately held firm that manufactures the highest quality cannabis-based tablets.  Its 1906 brand of plant-based tablet and chocolate experiences are market leaders in this emerging industry.

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Oversight of supply from seven strategic internal manufacturing sites focused on the North American markets.  Program manager for a transformational shift focused on fixing foundations and inventory optimization with 11 initiatives incorporated within.

Director, Supply Planning

Change Management Lead for an SAP Implementation.  For this long-term project, I have responsibility for project communications, stakeholder engagement, business process change impact, change readiness, organizational alignment and training for a more than 10,000 end user base.

Director, Organizational Change Management

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (Teva) is a global pharmaceutical and drug company. It develops, produces and markets generic drugs in all treatment categories.

Director, Supply Chain Planning

Teva Animal Health, Inc. is engaged in the research, development and manufacture of veterinary pharmaceutical products for North America and the worldwide animal health community. Teva Animal Health is the largest US manufacturer of generic pharmaceutical formulations for the animal health market, and our proprietary brand line, DVM Pharmaceuticals, leads the industry in the development of companion animal dermatological products and nutraceuticals.

Director, Supply Chain

RPI Lally School of Management

Member of external advisory board for the Master of Supply Chain Management program at the Lally School of Management.

Located in the heart of Upstate New York's Tech Valley, the Lally School of Management is the business school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. We develop aspiring business leaders who have a passion for innovation with the ability to work across business functions.

Supply Chain Advisory Board Member

The Refractive Thinker

The Refractive Thinker is a new, innovative outlet for doctoral scholars who want to publish their research. It is unique because it meets the critical standards of peer-reviewed literature while still appealing to readers outside of the world of academia. 

Vol. VIII: Effective Business Practices for Motivation and Communication
Ch 4: Five Steps to Navigating the Social Exchange Perspective Landscape

Download at no cost at:  http://goo.gl/wpnKbu

Contributing Author

Hospira

Manager, Capacity Planning and Project Management

Hospira is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company driven by its vision of Advancing Wellness™. Bringing proven leadership and experience, Hospira provides solutions to help improve the productivity, safety and effectiveness of patient care.

Supply Chain | Capacity Planning Manager

Section Manager, International Deployment

Supply Chain | International Deployment

Systems Analyst, Centralized Materials Management Group

Supply Chain | Systems Analyst

Supply Chain | Materials Manager

Supply Chain | Section Manager, SVP Finishing

Supply Chain | Section Manager, Materials Management

Supply Chain | Material Control Supervisor

Section Supervisor, Materials Management, Large Volume Parenterals

Supply Chain | Section Supervisor, Materials Management, LVP

Manufacturing Supervisor, Propofol Filling

Supply Chain | Manufacturing Supervisor, Propofol Filling

Supply Chain | Manufacturing Supervisor, Actiq

Corning Incorporated

Corning Optical Fiber, part of Corning’s Telecommunications segment, invented the first low-loss optical fiber in 1970 and today remains the worldwide market leader, offering a full line of single-mode and multimode optical fibers for all network applications.

Positions Held:
New Technology Receiver (Project Engineer / Production Management)
Shift Supervisor

Production Engineering and Manufacturing Supervision

GE Silicones

GE Silicones, Inc. offers specialty silicones, such as silicone surfactants, emulsions, catalysts, organomodified, and reactive fluids. It serves personal and household care, coatings, paints and inks, crop protection, textiles, oil and gas, paper, food and beverage, tissue and nonwovens, automotive, furniture and bedding, appliances, and shoes markets.

Process Safety Analyst

I profile the extraordinary work being done by #EverydayLeaders. Leaders from the front lines of industry

WHAT I DO: 

I’m on a quest to profile the extraordinary work being done by #EverydayLeaders.  Leaders from the front lines of industry.   

HOW I DO IT:  

I start genuine conversations with real people.  We discuss what it takes to lead people in the real world.  And I help them share or develop their wisdom. 

Over the last two years, I’ve interviewed and profiled dozens of people and published their stories in Volume 1 of the Everyday Leaders Series.  Here are few examples:

➡️ Kerry Wekelo on listening to your teams —  https://goo.gl/BgU8Ma 
➡️ Ross Wirth on asking the right questions — https://goo.gl/zKjf9H
➡️ John Reagan on the art of teamwork — https://goo.gl/UPRcGn

I also help Emerging Leaders discover their innate brilliance. We use a time tested framework to align your desires and preferences with your those of your peers, teams, managers, and organization. No tricks, no secret formulas.  But the techniques are so simple my 4-year-old could do it.

CURIOUS TO KNOW MORE?  

Let’s connect and see how we may help each other.

Dr. Ernest Jones

ambi.careers

🚀 Smart recruitment for the future of work.

At ambi.careers we don’t just hire, we architect talent ecosystems.
Our mission is to support companies, VCs, and professionals in building careers and teams that last.

🔹 Tech & Non-Tech Recruitment Agency → From engineers to sales & marketing leaders powering growth.
🔹 RPO & Fractional Recruiters → Embedded experts scaling hiring capacity with zero overhead.
🔹 Talent Marketplace → Curated global candidates, visible and hidden, ready to move.
🔹 VC Job Boards → Centralised jobs from portcos for better organizations and branding, with hiring analytics and a connected talent marketplace.
🔹 Career Education & Community (Reset de Carreira) → Tools, content, and mentoring to help professionals reset and grow sustainably.

👉 We serve both sides of the table:

For companies and VCs, we are the hiring infrastructure, from early hires to scaling dozens of roles.

For candidates, we are a career partner, giving access to jobs, communities, and frameworks to build meaningful careers.

We don’t fill roles. We create momentum.
Because talent is not just strategy: it’s the ultimate competitive advantage.

Trusted by Remote.com, Emma, Sequra, Rauva, Bounce, Powerdot, BHOUT, Paynest, Fintech Portugal, Startup Valencia, TechBarcelona, and growing across Europe, Brazil, and beyond.

Founder & CEO

AngelsWay 🔷

Angel Investor

Startup Lisboa

Startup Mentor

The Sales Gang

Thesalesgang.com is a non-tech-focused recruitment network. With an experienced and cool group of remote talent partners spread across Europe, we meet and vet the top 5% non-tech professionals available, so they can help startups and scaleups to expand their teams.

Founder

Luca

VP of People and Talent Acquisition

Demium

Demium is a pre-team & pre-idea startup incubator in Europe. We identify and develop best in class digital entrepreneurial talent and connect them with human and economic capital through our proven startup builder framework.

Launched in Valencia, with 100+ companies in portfolio, 8 incubators across Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Poland and Greece, 1000+ entrepreneurs in residence and a capital hub in London, we are now focussed on scaling Demium throughout south-western Europe and fulfil our ambition to launch 150 startups per year.

Country Head of Talent 

Michael Page

Associate Manager - Commercial & Marketing

Page Personnel

Manager -  Page Personnel Sales & Marketing, Retail Divisions

NEXXYS - Enterprise Intelligence

Solutions Manager

Reweb

Account Manager

Helping startups and scaleups to expand their teams across Europe and abroad 🌍

🚀 I help startups, scale-ups, and VC-backed companies hire smarter in Brazil 🇧🇷, Portugal 🇵🇹, and Spain 🇪🇸, three overlooked talent hubs with massive potential locally and globally.

Founder of @ambi.careers → a recruitment agency and talent community built for speed, quality, and saving founders time.

Yes, we use AI, but that’s no longer a differentiator. Everyone does. What sets us apart is what AI can’t touch: building trust, understanding culture, producing sharp content, and closing top talent fast. That’s where we win, and where our clients save the most time.

📖 Author of Reset de Carreira, a book and framework helping professionals rethink work-life alignment in the AI era.

👉 If you’re a founder, investor, or leader scaling in 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇪🇸 (or hiring from them to the world), let’s connect. DM me!

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