Workshops
Help your team turn complex questions about genomics, AI and biotechnology into shared understanding and step-wise change.
Workshops combine clear science with active discussion, role play and scenario planning to explore transformative change. Sessions are tailored to your team and its decisions, making technological opportunities, ethical questions and strategic risks concrete.
Build understanding your team can use together
- Develop a shared vocabulary and understanding across specialist and non-specialist colleagues.
- Explore opportunities, assumptions and risks through structured discussion and scenarios.
- Identify lean, Agile and effective next steps towards impactful, highly scalable change your team can put into practice.
Sessions can include a tailored presentation, interactive exercises, Q&A, a written summary and recommendations. Half-day, full-day and focused team formats can be discussed around your goals.
Facilitation and team experience
These sessions are shaped by substantial experience helping specialist teams learn, decide and change together.
- Mentored MSc and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and AI developers, and introduced Agile and minimum-viable-product thinking to research-heavy teams.
- Extensive experience of working in cross-functional teams, with systems architects, AI engineers, clinicians, pathologists, parasitologists, and many others.
- Designed and delivered tailored computational biology and statistics teaching for professors, postgraduate students and the general public in the UK, Sweden, Malawi and India, including for Cambridge Higher Education and Wellcome Advanced Courses.
- Helped organise retreats, conferences and professional-development programmes for hundreds of researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Did you know?
In 2019, U.S. authorities announced charges against 35 people in an alleged USD 2.1 billion genetic-testing fraud scheme. This is a concrete case for teams to examine: what does the evidence support, who benefits, and which questions should be asked before acting? Workshops provide a setting to practise that scrutiny together.
Workshop formats
- Half-day introductory workshop
- Full-day strategic workshop
- Leadership team session
- Investor education session
- Scenario-planning workshop
- Ethics and risk workshop
- Science communication workshop
Example workshop themes
- Genomics for non-specialists
- AI and the future of biology
- Precision medicine and healthcare transformation
- CRISPR and the ethics of gene editing
- DNA data, privacy and trust
- Biotechnology futures and strategic risk
What colleagues and collaborators say
Excerpts from LinkedIn recommendations.
“She always motivated me to come up with new approaches and provided needful feedback at times when I used to get stuck, helping me to improvise and learn a lot.”
“Magdalena provided exceptional mentorship, sharing her extensive knowledge in the field and providing insightful feedback that helped me grow both technically and professionally.”
What does your team need to work through?
Book a meeting to discuss your team, the questions you face and the outcomes you want from a workshop. We can agree a practical format around those needs.