For many of us, planning begins by examining what we are working on, thinking about next steps, and maybe imagining an unanswered question from the…
Category: Careers
A number of my clients are now going through the process of promotion or tenure evaluation. None of these faculty understand the specifics about the…
Why Scientific Training Urgently Needs Reform
Posted in Biotech, Careers, Education, and Scientists
PhD degrees were originally granted to train students to conduct research in a specific field of study. Postdoctoral fellowships were instituted to help the PhD…
Is Your Lab Filled with Students or Scholars?
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Productivity, and Scientists
If you are the PI of a research lab, you probably have one or more people in your lab who want to be PIs but…
When I was speaking about leadership virtues to a group of junior researchers at a leading pharma company, audience members raised examples of eminent scientists…
It’s hard to develop your leadership and management skills in science if you have never seen what a good leader looks like. In my coaching…
Why is it so hard to change? We all want to do it, once we feel that discomfort between where we are in life and…
If coaching is all about helping you discover and achieve a better life at work and home, then trusting your dreams would seem to be…
The Boston Globe recently published an interesting article that provides a common sense account of why more women don’t go into science: they don’t want…