Eileen Heller: Developing a Breakthrough Approach to Innovation in Healthcare and Life Science Industry

BeanStock Ventures shares in an impactful way its rich and unique medical device and software expertise to enable innovation within the healthcare industry. The company does this with the provision of consulting services such as software product development and regulatory consulting as well as software online regulatory training.

An Experienced Leader Focussed to Business Management

Eileen Heller is the Vice President Operations at BeanStock Ventures. Eileen's background is extensively focused on business operations management with an expertise in human resources, quality, compliance and strategic business management. Over the past 18 years, her specialty has resided with innovative engineering firms. Throughout her career, Eileen has consciously approached all experiences as lessons to grow from. Those experiences have formed her belief in a balance of traditional hard work alongside an aligned, diverse and learning culture.

Eileen believes that leadership in today's world requires a diversity of business management. Her career has offered her immense opportunities to be involved in all aspects of the business from sales and marketing, finance, legal, and administration. Eileen has always sought opportunities with a diversity of responsibilities and has prioritized being a contributing member of the leadership team in building the business.

Eileen says taking responsibility for one's career requires an alignment with strong, influential leaders. She was fortunate to have mentors that she could learn from and consciously welcomed criticism, input, feedback, and guidance. Alignment requires self-reflection to identify attributes one needs to enhance or modify to be a well-respected leader. Eileen strategically aligned herself with those that were positive and had a growth mindset. She opines that one must always have a learning approach. Taking examples from her experiences, Eileen believes that one can never know everything, and one can literally learn something new about their job, company, business or industry every day.

Hard work was the foundation of Eileen's contributions in decision making, building departments and empowering teams. She received the greatest career gift of opportunity by being attentive so that she was aware when it presented itself.

Approaching to Challenges with an Attitude of Growth

Challenges are an important part of self-development. Eileen approached challenges in her career with an attitude of growth. As a growth-minded professional, one of the biggest challenges she encountered was in being recognized for career advancement within an existing company. She says, 'It is a double-edged sword that the better you are at your job, the harder it is for a company to promote you because it creates a gap that is difficult to fill. The glass ceiling creates a stifling and demotivational experience". In turning that challenge into an achievement, Eileen's greatest career advancements have been a result of moving on. She adds that, "There are people in your career journey that will see in you what you may not see in yourself. Take strength from those that encourage and believe in you". Eileen echo's the words of her mentor who believed in her, and said, "I know you can do it; you just need to know that you can do it.".

Leadership that Unifies the Team Behind a Vision

Transformational leadership in today's world is vital as BeanStock Ventures pivots continuously to grow it business. In order to successfully do so, a transformational leader should possess the spirit of continual improvement and the ability to unify the team behind a vision. Unification, really comes back to the principle of alignment that Eileen has previously discussed. First, having clear goals for each team member that goal align to the business vision. This allows the team to see the value of how they contribute to the organization.

Secondly, the business world is changing and evolving quickly today. If a company can't keep up with the change, they will be left behind. In order to ensure the team and the leaders are not discouraged, setting relevant goals and achieving them are of vital importance. Recognizing those goals motivates the team and inspires them to achieve bigger goals. Transformational leaders are role models and should inspire commitment from their team, they think of the needs of the team and empower them to be independent thinkers.

Innovating Software Development with Current Regulatory Standards

BeanStock Ventures is a team of experts that focuses on software development and regulatory compliance in the medical and life sciences arena. It identifies the gaps in the market and product development life cycle and partners with companies to assist them in filling those gaps through innovative software development that is also compliant with the latest regulatory standards. The company's expertise allows a shortened time-to-market and access to the knowledge needed immediately without having to groom and educate a new or existing team.

Aligning with Disruptive Technologies with a Learning Culture

Speaking on the transformation role of a leader, Eileen says that the role of a leader has changed as disruptive technologies are introduced. BeanStock Ventures holds expertise in several of these areas of disruptive technologies. In order to be a leader today leveraging disruptive technologies, it is crucial to imbibe a diverse, aligned and a learning culture.

From a healthcare perspective, leaders should be active in influencing healthcare policies so that they can be adaptive to new technologies in order to enable advances in healthcare. From an operational perspective, this need for speed and delivery is manifested through automation. It is important to ensure that leaders explore automation of their financial, marketing and sales systems wherever possible. This will create the platform needed to act and deliver quickly and decisively.

Moving Towards a Bright Future

The future is bright for BeanStock Ventures. It has hired carefully and created a foundation that will allow the company to quickly adapt to the changing technologies and environment while having clear goals for the short and long-term. Its team has a wealth of experience and knowledge on both software development and regulatory compliance. The medical and life sciences arena, as well as its offerings are on the edge of disruption and the team is excited for the years to come.

Advice to Emerging Women Leaders

Advising emerging women leaders, Eileen says, "For the emerging women leaders, we are excited to have you. As you traverse your career, be sure to set goals and achieve them. If you are not being recognized or promoted, have the courage to move on. At the heart of all of your experiences, believe that you can do the job and you will be able to do it. Most importantly, believe in the company you work for and avoid aligning yourself with those that are negative". She concluded by adding that emerging women leaders must seek out a mentor. If their organization does not provide with one, budding women leaders must take the initiative to reach out and invite someone to mentor them.

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