Speakers
Melanie Lee
Session
Join fellow mentors for an exclusive morning of high-level networking and leadership insight at Women in Biotech. Connect over an inspiring keynote address and engage in meaningful conversations with peers. Share experiences, build valuable connections, and help shape the next generation of leaders in biotech.
Melanie is a seasoned Executive and Non-Executive Director across Pharma and Medtech companies, including FTSE 100 biotech, large public and small venture backed boards. She has a strong background in corporate development of strategy in public and private companies to their next phase of growth and is widely connected across the global healthcare sector. Melanie is pursuing a portfolio career in life sciences focused on new technologies and innovation to transform the opportunities for human health and wellbeing.
Melanie is passionate about people development and in particular encouraging women to succeed as leaders and as Executives. She has always encouraged personal development and has provided support to young people, middle managers and new C-suite executives, to keep learning and honing their leadership skills.
She has worked as Global Head of R&D for pharma and medtech companies and has led as, CEO three organisations through substantial change in the commercial and charitable sectors.
Melanie considers that to reach the potential of human therapy, as is currently being developed and foreseen, we must empower patients and encourage their involvement in key decisions about their lifestyle and therapies.
She believes she is fortunate to really enjoy people and derives energy from interactions with those who are curious, capable and warm.
Michele blends her unique understanding of what constitutes leadership, business focus and being human in today’s world with her infinite passion and curiosity for learning and excellence.
Fortunate to have worked internationally with extraordinary clients in many sectors, cultures and functions both in Executive Search where she co-founded the Life Sciences sector and latterly in Leadership Development. She partners with individuals and senior leadership teams to help them build a healthy relationship to both success and power.
Michele seeks to excel in her business through using highly creative models and techniques underpinned by sound psychological and philosophical theory from thought leaders around the world. She believes no one source can provide all the answers to the existential and business questions of our time.
To maximize the business-critical leadership competency of influencing she balances the cognitive and emotional aspects of her work with somatic awareness, helping leaders cultivate greater leadership presence and to better understand their energetic imprint when under pressure.
She is an ICF accredited professional coach, qualifying with Newfield Network, USA and is one of the first business coaches in Europe to qualify as a Leadership Embodiment coach and trainer with Wendy Palmer, Embodiment International. The work incorporates the latest in neuroscience, mindfulness and somatic intelligence. She is also one of a cadre of executive coaches for CoachSource, a leading global coach provider. Additionally, she is a qualified Qi Gong teacher, which has been invaluable for leadership resilience support during these accelerated times of change.
When not alongside clients Michele regularly attends seminars and talks on growing trends of our time from adapting to AI to geopolitical shifts impacting business to examining our digital lives and behavioural changes in society and the future of work. She can also be found honing her analytical skills by watching too many Nordic thrillers, observing nature and animal behaviour in the wild, spending time with family, dog-walking, and practising Pilates and Qi Gong.