Stacy Lindborg

What resonates really deeply with me, and it's been a central part of how I've led across my entire career, is more servant leadership.

That really is ultimately ground and humility.

Thank you.

It's a delight to be here.

I really step back and I think about where the journey began.

It really started with a phenomenal company.

So Eli Lilly and Company.

I was there for almost half my career.

And I think that where you start and who you're exposed to is

really can set you off on a different course.

And I was given the opportunity very early in my career.

And I think as you leave great companies, you also see how different they are.

So Lilly is, I think, phenomenal in thinking about people and development and really setting perhaps expectations long beyond you can expect, especially earlier in your career.

And they gave me just a series of opportunities that taught me that I had formal training, I had industry knowledge that I was accumulating, and I had the ability to really think at a macro level, as well as really getting to know drug development.

And I really think that's what started it.

I was very early given an opportunity to step into more of a leadership capacity for a blockbuster that was a product that took

Uh, the lead revenue driving for Lilly after Prozac went off patent and was asked to take over the schizophrenia brand for Zyprexa.

This is, you know, a product that reached, I think 4.7 billion in peak sales and we were languishing in schizophrenia sales.

So as a young PhD, I found myself with marketing staff, really talented commercial guys reporting to me, the manufacturing.

capacity and then R&D and developing new indications.