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

Epoch Education, Inc

•	Manage a leading diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy.
•	Create and implement all operational functions resulting in a significant improvement in revenue and profits.
•	Run all aspects of programmatic and administrative operations in collaboration with the CEO. 
•	Ensure excellent collaboration across departments and globally by removing roadblocks & solving problems.
•	Confirm effective systems, processes, and accountability for maximum mission impact as expressed via measurable results.
•	Lead organizational unity and commitment to strategy and tactics.
•	Coach team leaders to be maximally influential.

Learn more about Epoch Education! From products to platform to people, we’re happy to answer your questions. Contact us today!
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Chief Operating Officer

ClickBridge Consulting

•	Successfully coach compassionate companies through the challenging leap from start-up to next-level profitable business. Provides a deep immersive strategic implementation of interpersonal and technological assistance needed for successful interactions live and online.
•	We drive new customers and clients to brick-and-mortar businesses using digital marketing and advertising techniques. 
•	Full-service digital advertising agency, omni-platform content, and streaming video producer.
•	Apply unique and highly effective media strategy driving a local business and drastically increase their exposure for a variety of products and services in a matter of months resulting in significant customer growth. 
•	If you are a business interested in improving your reputation, getting more recognition and exposure, and are in a position to handle more customers, then contact us today.

Founder and President

Collins & Associates

•	Responsible for day to day management and functioning of a preeminent multi-million-dollar accounting firm. 
•	Managed Human Resources, Marketing and Financial Operations as well as updating key functions of payroll and accounts receivable.

Essential Discovery

•	Led global field operations, including consulting, alliances, and client programs. 
•	Developed and executed discovery and document review services - ensuring that the highest caliber of contract attorney teams were available for client projects.
•	Established start-up and drove it to a seven-figure top line with a 37% margin within 2 years. 
•	Marketed an entirely new category of business to major law firms and Fortune 500 companies. 
•	Managed over one hundred employees.
•	Frequent Speaker on litigation and discovery management.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

• Responsible for the overall day-to-day case and trial management of major ITC and complex litigation matters.
• Managed all aspects of discovery, including document collection and review, supervision of large teams of contract attorneys, creation of electronic discovery database, and motion practice in numerous venues.
• Drafted a wide variety of pre and post-trial briefs on myriad issues.
• Conducted and defended fact and expert depositions.
• Successfully briefed voluminous summary judgment motions on several issues.
• Prepared expert reports.

Legal Counsel

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) were once considered obligations by many firms, given no more than lip service, with doubtful or non-existent impact on the bottom line. Susan Callender not only makes it her mission to demonstrate the dynamic value of DEI but has the real-world experience to prove it. As a respected business leader and consultant, she can claim what few business coaches can—clear results. She’s enabled multiple companies to achieve over $1 million in revenue since initiating her consultancy over ten years ago, but her most impactful decision came in 2019 when she accepted the role of Chief Operating Officer at Epoch Education, Inc. With Callender’s guidance, one of the foremost DE&B consultancies in the country achieved profitable growth despite the challenges of COVID-19.

Callender has built a career leveraging her experience as a corporate litigator and consistent success as an entrepreneurial investor and executive to serve as a mentor and guide to start-ups and emerging businesses. Her background provides the perspective and knowledge that it’s possible to embrace DE&B and use it as a clear competitive advantage.

Susan Callender believes that instituting a responsible culture of belonging is both motivational to employees and impactful to a company’s growth.

If you would like to know the strategies and get the tools to create more belonging in your organization reach out to us at Epoch Education and start the conversation.

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