Building Agile Leadership for a Volatile Market, Engaging Your Workforce Through Downturn & Uniting People Through Change with Clarity, Community & Culture
Funding pressures, regulatory shifts, global competition, and relentless layoffs are redefining the pre-commercial biopharma landscape. In this climate, agile, transparent, and people-first leadership is critical to keeping teams engaged, culture strong, and organizations moving forward.
LEAP HR: Emerging Biopharma is the only meeting built for senior HR leaders in this space. Over three days in Boston in November 2025, likeminded peers united who understood each other's challenges shared proven solutions, and offered each other support with navigating disruption, adapting with resilience, and doing more with less.
Our attendees left equipped with fresh strategies to strengthen culture, re-energize their workforce, and lead through uncertainty with clarity, community, and confidence — ready to take on 2026 and beyond.
LEAP HR: Emerging Biopharma is a rare platform for learning and sharing among a vibrant collection of ambitious minds across biopharma. It will ignite your thinking – to push the boundaries of today while turbocharging your growth mindset in order to create the people and culture realities of tomorrow – while fuelling your transformative spirit.
Debbie Durso-Bumpus, Chief People Officer, Blueprint Medicines
LEAP HR: Emerging Biopharma is the “go-to event” for people leaders from the life sciences industry. It is an opportunity to join other like-minded individuals who seek to drive positive change with fresh, practical approaches. LEAP HR is informative and inspiring.
Mary Morris, Head of Human Resources, Silicon Therapeutics
Our experience in an emerging biotech is different to those in other stages of development. The challenges and opportunities we face require unique strategies. Learning from my peers at LEAP HR: Emerging Biopharma allows me to broaden my perspective and identify new and creative paths forward.
Laurie Politz, Head of People Operations, Finch Therapeutics
Explore the 2025 Event Guide
- 25+ Emerging Biotech HR Leaders Sharing Real Life Case-Studies
- A Strategic Pre-Conference Focus Day to Help You Build The Workforce of Tomorrow
- 9+ Hours of Networking with 150+ Likeminded HR Peers Who Understand the Niche Challenges of Working in Emerging Biotech
- Interactive Speed Learning & Speed Networking Sessions to Help You Build Consultative Relationships with Your Peers
Among the Most Future-Focused C-Suite HR Leaders Sharing Case Studies in 2025
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