C-Speak: The Language of Executives
PNC C-Speak: The Language of Executives, features frank and lively conversations on leadership and life. Hosted by Carolyn Jones, market president and publisher of the Boston Business Journal, far left; Jon Bernstein, regional president of PNC Bank; and Saskia Epstein, senior vice president, client and community relations, with PNC Bank, each episode profiles a well-known local business leader and explores their personal career path and today’s most pertinent business topics. Hear their stories, including pivotal highlights from their lives and forward-thinking insights. Listen here and subscribe to PNC C-Speak at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
C-Speak: The Language of Executives
Kendalle Burlin O'Connell, CEO and president of MassBio, on what it means to be a creative leader
Kendalle Burlin O’Connell relishes a challenge. That’s just what she got her first day leading the purchasing consortium in 2008 with the company now known as MassBio – when a vendor said she was “not the right person for this job” because she lacked experience in biotechnology.
Burlin O’Connell, an attorney, ended up negotiating what’s now MassBio’s largest supplier agreement. “I think that because I wasn't from industry, I was more brave and more willing to take risks in making a really big change at the time,” said Burlin O’Connell, now CEO and president of MassBio, a premiere biotech trade organization.
Burlin O’Connell details her experience with the company’s “amazing team” in this episode of the PNC C-Speak podcast.
Listen to the episode to hear more about:
•The company’s rapid growth in the span of a few years.
•MassBio’s commitment to DEI.
•Burlin O’Connell’s “hobby and guilty pleasure.”
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