The Growth Engine - Setting Foundations for Tomorrow
sponsored by ISPE Women in Pharma
Join us for a two-day Women in Pharma Summit titled “The Growth Engine – Setting Foundations for Tomorrow”.
Day 1 features an interactive workshop, including an Insights Discovery personality assessment.
Day 2 is a full-day summit bringing together WIP’s four pillars – Personal Growth, Professional Growth, Social Impact, and Shaping the Future of Pharma—through engaging workshops and panel discussions.
The agenda is designed as a “Growth Engine” journey, guiding participants from personal reflection to innovation, skill development, and ultimately meaningful impact.
The program also includes a networking dinner to foster connection and exchange.
Day 1
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What to Expect
In today’s international and fast-paced work environments, effective collaboration across functions, cultures, and personalities is a key success factor. This workshop empowers participants to better understand themselves and others, and to translate this insight directly into their daily work.
Participants will learn how to leverage their strengths more consciously, adapt their communication to different styles, and turn diversity within teams into a tangible advantage. This leads to clearer communication, fewer misunderstandings, and more productive collaboration.
By combining self-awareness with practical application, the workshop delivers insights that have an immediate and lasting impact on individual effectiveness and team performance.
Additionally, an intercultural perspective on communication and collaboration will be integrated.
Preparation for Participants
Before the workshop, participants receive access to the Insights Discovery online questionnaire and their individual Insights Discovery profile.
A short e-learning module introduces the key concepts of the model, ensuring that all participants share a common foundation. This allows the workshop to focus on what matters most: practical application, exchange, and reflection.
Participants are invited to review their profile in advance and bring their observations and questions, ensuring a highly relevant, interactive, and impactful learning experience from the very start.
About Intermedio & Trainer Profiles
Intermedio has been supporting organizations for many years in strengthening communication, collaboration, and cultural competence of their individuals and teams. As certified Insights Discovery practitioners, we combine personality development with intercultural expertise, particularly in international settings.
Our approach enables participants and course leaders to better understand the interplay between personality and cultural context, leading to more confident decision-making and more effective collaboration.
Franziska Knechtenhofer
Systemic organizational consultant, certified adult educator, coach
Franziska supports professionals and leaders in development and change processes with a strong focus on communication, intercultural collaboration, and team dynamics. Her workshops are known for their clear structure, practical relevance, and engaging delivery.
Noureddine Yous
Intercultural communication trainer, cultural expert, author
With a background spanning France, Algeria, and Switzerland, and over 20 years of international leadership experience, he brings deep practical insight into global collaboration. His sessions combine clarity, depth, and an accessible, engaging style.
Further information: https://intermedio.ch/en/about-us/
Day 2
featuring presentations by
Nadine Nembach
International Advisory Board Member at EWMD (European Women’s Management Development)
- EWMD International Corporate Member Team Coordinator
- Former EWMD International Co-President
- Graduate Psychologist
- Certified Trainer, Coach & Facilitator
- Owner of N2 Consulting & Training
- 25+ years in Leadership 4.0, Resilience, & Customer Delight
Your Network Is Your Net Worth
A strategic approach to networking is necessary, which includes bridging across sectors and joining a structured community. With a wide variety of international, national and local activities, we allow our members to network across sectors and with structured activities. Networking Is Not a Luxury. It Is a Career Strategy.
Vanessa Akpore
Capital Projects and Portfolio Management at Takeda
Vanessa Akpore is based in Zurich and oversees a global capital portfolio within Takeda. She is recognized for delivering operational excellence, strengthening investment governance, and driving measurable value across complex networks.
Impact in Action – Driving Meaningful Change Within and Beyond the Workplace
Be inspired by real stories of how individuals and organizations are turning purpose into action and creating meaningful impact within teams and across communities. This session shares practical ideas to spark change and empower you to make a lasting, positive difference in your workplace, networks, and beyond.
Dr. Karsten Pietron-Kattmann
Owner of k2p PharmaCon – Organizational, Strategic and Technical Consulting
With more than 25 years of international leadership experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and operations, Karsten Pietron-Kattmann brings a rare combination of strategic vision, operational depth, and passion for transformation.
From Expertise to Impact – Driving Change through Leadership & Collaboration
How we create influence and drive decisions in complex pharma environments, using reflection and real-life scenarios.
Lilia Sprich
Director Manufacturing at Pfizer
Lilia Sprich has over a decade of experience in pharmaceutical production, specializing in GMP environments and large-scale operations. Beside her actual role at Pfizer, she has held senior roles at Takeda and the Glatt Group, combining deep technical expertise with a strong focus on innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable manufacturing
GMP Production: From Development to Manufacturing
Eline Hendriksen-Middelburg
Director at Simon-Kucher
Eline Hendriksen-Middelburg is a Director in the Life Science division at Simon-Kucher, based in Amsterdam. She specializes in pricing, market access, commercial excellence, and strategy for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Since joining Simon-Kucher in 2017, Eline has advised (bio)pharmaceutical companies across Europe on a broad range of strategic topics, with a particular focus on the development, optimization, and implementation of pricing and market access strategies for both launch and in-market products across multiple therapeutic areas.
Alongside her expertise in pricing and market access, she brings strong capabilities in commercial excellence and is recognized as an expert on the Dutch market, with deep knowledge of the Dutch healthcare system, reimbursement landscape, and market access processes.
Prior to joining Simon-Kucher, Eline obtained her MSc in Pharmacy from Utrecht University and authored several scientific publications. In 2021, she completed the Professional Program in Healthcare Management at the Open Universiteit. Outside of work, Eline is passionate about healthcare innovation and balancing professional leadership with family life.
Preparing for market access success
- The crucial role of market access in pharmaceutical strategies
- The evolving market access challenges
- Key pricing and market access trends reshaping pharma
Eylem Demir Sentürk
Founder of “Women on Stage”
Eylem Demir Sentürk is a senior leader with 22 years of Regulatory Affairs experience across global pharmaceutical companies, including Actelion, Celgene, Vifor Pharma, Novartis and Bayer.
In 2020, she left corporate life to establish Women on Stage, a Swiss-based organisation dedicated to advancing Women in Pharma. Based on her own challenges during her leadership journey and the challenges she witnessed women face throughout their careers, Eylem created Sponsoring Women, a unique career acceleration program for Women in Pharma.
The program strengthens women’s executive presence, personal branding, salary negotiation skills and their visibility in the industry while connecting them with senior leaders who act as their Career Sponsors, advocate for them, provide access to hidden opportunities and prepare them for their next career step. At the same time, it brings the participants together with experienced managers who support and encourage them as sponsors, open doors to new opportunities and prepare them specifically for the next step in their careers.
Halil Capri
Executive Coach
Halil is a executive coach, breathwork facilitator, entrepreneur and one of the few coaches who bridges the worlds of high performance and deep inner work. His clients have included teams and leaders at organisations such as Roche, Sparkasse and Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois. What they all have in common: high external performance and an inner world that rarely gets the attention it deserves. His approach is direct. Just the most effective tools available to release what’s in the way and lead from a clearer, more grounded place.
Re:Connection with Breathwork
What if you could reboot your entire system in a single session?
No analysing. No figuring things out.
Just breath. Music. And real connection.
In this Re:Connection Breathwork session, we guide you through a deep breathing journey that releases emotional blockages, regulates your nervous system and brings you back into connection. With yourself and with others.
Bring your open heart or your doubting heart. All of it is welcome.
Key Details
Target audiance
Professionals with relevant professional experience, management staff with strategic responsibility and students who are currently in training and looking to enter the field.
Date
23.06.2026 08:00 am – 24.06.2026 10:00 pm
Location
MC3 Main Campus Convention Center
Hegenheimermattweg 167D
4123 Allschwil
Switzerland
Language
English.
Workshop size
The number of participants is limited to 75 in order to ensure an efficient exchange.
Participation fee
The fees are per participant:
Day 1 & 2
490,- € for ISPE members
790,- € for non-members – This booking option includes a one-year ISPE membership.
150,- € für studierende ISPE Mitglieder – Mitgliedschaften für Studierende sind kostenlos. weitere Informationen
Day 2
190,- € for ISPE members
490,- € for non-members – This booking option includes a one-year ISPE membership.
50,- € for student ISPE members – Memberships for students are free of charge. further information
Registration
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