Women in business and leadership with Sanofi and Joan Kuhl (CxOTalk #351)

A corporate leader and well-known author share valuable advice on career development for both women and men on this episode of CxOTalk with host Michael Krigsman.

Michelle Carnahan is the Head of the Primary Care Business Unit for Sanofi. Michelle is responsible for commercial operations in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico) and Canada, which is comprised of Sales, Marketing, Market Access, One Trade, and Innovative Solutions. Michelle also sits on the Board of Directors for Onduo, a joint venture with Verily Life Sciences dedicated to helping people living with diabetes. She also serves as the Chair for Sanofi’s U.S. Country Council.

Michelle has a broad commercial background which includes substantial P&L accountability, extensive partnerships, significant organizational results, and strategic innovation work. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated her skills as a passionate, patient-centric leader who consistently holds herself and the organization to drive outcomes and better experiences for patients. She joined Sanofi in January 2018, bringing deep knowledge across many therapeutic areas including CNS, women’s health, musculoskeletal and diabetes. During her 25 years with Eli Lilly, she held progressively more senior roles in sales, marketing, human resources, and general management. Most recently, Michelle served as Chief Operating Officer for the International Business of Lilly, where she was responsible to drive the commercial operations and strategy.

Joan Kuhl is a champion for girls leadership and advancing women in the workforce. She is the author of Dig Your Heels In (April 2019) and Misunderstood Millennial Talent (2016). She is an international speaker and a consultant on talent management, career, communication and leadership trends. After 14 years in the pharmaceutical industry and as a college campus speaker, she launched Why Millennials Matter, a training, research and consulting company that focuses on raising awareness about the value of investing in the early career workforce and The Kuhl Company focuses on advancing women in the workplace in global corporations and business schools with clients such as Eli Lilly, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Discovery Communications, FINRA, Novo Nordisk, Viacom, the NY Mets, Columbia Business School and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. Her expertise has been featured in the NY Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Cosmopolitan and SUCCESS Magazine.

Joan is a #SheBelieves Champion for the U.S. Soccer Organization developing an academy to inspire girls and women to achieve their goals on and off the field. She is also a Contributor to Women@Forbes and currently serves on the board of Girls Inc of NYC. Joan has her BSBA from the University of Pittsburgh, an MBA from Rutgers University where she studied global management in Beijing and Shanghai, China and completed the Programs and Principles of Organizational Development at Columbia University.

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