Over the last 33 years, Gaylene Xanthopoulos and her team at The Leadership Edge have worked with over 1000 life science companies and over 7500 leaders from those companies to develop their leadership and commercial excellence.
Gaylene is passionate about developing greatness in others and surrounding herself with people who share her values and who she would enjoy having over to her home for dinner.
In this in-depth conversation, Gaylene shares her deep insights into what it takes to be successful and fulfilled as a CEO of a life science company in 2022 and beyond.
Some highlights of our conversation include:
1:35 – Who is Gaylene Xanthopoulos?
3:53 – Living an integrated life
4:39 – Hero, Hardship and Highlight
8:54 – Developing an Integrated View of Life and Leadership
16:18 – The relationship between work and fun
18:53 – Life is too long to do what you hate
21:26 – Creating an environment of purpose, meaning and fun
25:10 – Seeing the value of vision, culture and values
28:42 – Where are the life science leadership role models
29:32 – CEOs need a cheerleader too
32:25 – Great science isn’t enough
34:52 – Successfully move from lab to leader
39:32 – Awareness is key to great leadership
42:01 – Being a Life Science CEO in 2022
47:09 – Leading in a remote work world
49:11 – The conversation every CEO should have
To connect with Gaylene on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaylene-xanthopoulos/
To learn more about The Leadership Edge: https://theleadershipedge.com/