The Art of Engineering

In this episode, Jean Ann Groves , a retired Business Continuity expert, talks about how the civil rights movements of the 60s and 70s sparked a major change for women in the workplace.  Jean Ann was one of only three women in her business class in college and went on to a successful career in leadership with companies like Exxon before becoming an entrepreneur and going out on her own.  You’ll he...

Lisa and Denise talk about the history of CRB and their work with Custom Powder. You’ll hear Lisa’s fascinating journey from her beginnings in administration to her current role as the Corporate Trade Show Manager.  Lisa has had to take a completely different approach to trade shows in the last year, due to the global pandemic.  She and Denise also talk about the importance of building business re...

Caroline and Denise talk about how a love of math and science drew her to an engineering expo while in high school. Shortly out of college, Caroline was interviewed by Evonik Industries where she is now a production engineer in the healthcare and nutrition division. She takes advantage of the many mentorship programs offered at Evonik, including Women’s Interest Network which continues to motivate...

In this episode, Denise speaks with Dr. Namrata Karki about her journey all the way from Nepal to Stevens Point, Wisconsin.  Growing up in Nepal, her parents stressed the importance of education.  Her passion and love of higher education pointed Dr. Karki in the direction of America.  Today, she leads a team of scientists and engineers at Ortho Molecular, and mentors other up-and-coming experts in...

Sarah’s career has gone from working nationally on the regulatory side of pharmaceuticals at the FDA, to working globally on the regulatory side of the creation of pharmaceuticals with AstraZeneca.  Sarah received her post-doctoral degree at the National Institutes of Health, and spent many years at the Food and Drug Administration.  Now at AstraZeneca, she works in research with the coordination...

Guest:  Lynn Aurelius, Business Development Manager at Bollé Safety A fascinating conversation about the personal safety equipment used in industrial plants around the world.  Lynn talks about how she made the unique leap from being a calligrapher to her current position at Bollé Safety.  In March, her company made the decision to begin creating safety protection for health care and first responde...

Guest:  Richalle Ritts, Manager of Process Engineering at Integrated Project Services Richalle Ritts is not only the Manager of Process Engineering, but she’s also a Mom.  When the lockdown happened in the spring, she quickly learned where the difficulties and the opportunities lay.  In this episode, we’ll learn about some of the unintended benefits of how working from home has helped her family,...

Guest:   Helga Salling, Senior Director at IPS-Integrated Project Services Helga and Denise talk about what it takes to be a female leader in the pharma industry.  Topics include the myth of defining a woman by what she wears, leading from the heart, and embracing who you are in the workplace.   Helga shares what inspired her to begin writing about leadership in the workplace and how she deliberat...

Guest:  Dr. Eleanor Small - Product Development founded in Design for Manufacturability with Johnson & Johnson   Dr. Small shares how chemists take a small formula and make it on a large scale and why team input and customer data are so important.  She comes from a family of health professionals and shares how being around science was a big influence for her.  Today, she sees how the pharma in...

Guest:  Michelle Bridges - Executive Trainer with The Great Game of Business Denise speaks with Michele Bridges about her work in the medical sales market and how she is able to take difficult concepts and make them easy to understand. Michele also discusses “The Great Game”, and explains how involving every staff member in an organization in making decisions and having accountability on every lev...

Guest:  Shannon Goodson - Engineering Manager with Meridian Medical Technologies Host Denise McIntosh talks with Shannon Goodson about her early interest in chemistry and how that led to working for a pharma company at a young age. She played a role in the processing and packaging of liquids, powder processing, and blister lines, among other things, and quickly gained respect in the industry. In t...

Denise speaks with Kim Duncan, Founder, President, and owner of Duncan Enterprises . Kim’s engineering story began abroad while attending high school on a ship. She was the only woman engineer in her graduating class and earned her degree almost two years sooner than others. In this episode, Kim shares several stories with Denise about her career journey, starting with navigating chauvinism as an...

Denise speaks with Stephanie Wilkins, co-owner of Pharmaconsult US . Stephanie Wilkins was encouraged at a young age to look into subjects like drafting and auto repair. She quickly picked up knowledge and skills, and soon found herself working in companies while surrounded by men. Stephanie discovered working in the corporate world was quite different from the experiences she had learning from he...

Denise speaks with Beth Brock, Corporate Support for Environmental Management Systems, Compliance, and Sustainability for Smithfield Foods in Kansas City. Beth Brock got into engineering at a time when the industry didn’t have many women. She and Denise McIntosh discuss obstacles women have faced working in manufacturing, how to handle those situations and advice for young women entering the field...