Vivexa Partners

The Human Protocol

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Vivexa was founded on a simple belief: the human belongs at the heart of recruitment. Yes, we embrace AI and automation to remove the repetitive tasks and streamline the day-to-day. But technology was never the point. The point is protecting what matters: human judgement, trust, emotion, and the ripple effect that happens when the right person joins the right team. The Human Protocol is the podcast extension of that belief. Because drug development is human too, not just in the professionals designing and running trials, but in the patient whose life sits at the centre of every protocol. In ea...

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Closing the Gap Between Humans and AI with Ursula Tavender and Dagmar Albers 08.07.2026 58:22

In the next episode of The Human Protocol, Theodora Savlovschi-Wicks is joined by Ursula Tavender and Dagmar Albers, co-founders of Innovation In. Ursula and Dagmar work with SMEs on people-first AI transformation, helping leaders make sense of a fast-moving and often overwhelming shift in how work, decision-making, and performance are evolving. In this conversation, they explore why AI adoption...

Building Better Career Habits for Technical Scientists with Emma May 17.06.2026 38:25

In this episode of The Human Protocol, Theodora Savlovschi-Wicks is joined by Emma May, founder of The Career Habit. After 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry as a statistician, Emma has pivoted into professional development for statisticians, programmers, data scientists, and other analytical scientists. In this conversation, she explains why so many technically brilliant people struggle to...

Why CRO Growth Is Still a People Business with Egle Pavyde 27.05.2026 32:46

In this episode of The Human Protocol, Theodora Savlovschi-Wicks is joined by Egle Pavyde, Vice President of Business Development at APICES CRO. Egle shares her journey from pharmacy and stem cell research into the CRO industry, business development, marketing, M&A integration, women’s leadership, and longevity. This is a grounded conversation about the human side of clinical research grow...

Keeping Clinical Trials Going in Ukraine with Anna Titkova 06.05.2026 32:13

In this episode of The Human Protocol, Theodora Savlovschi-Wicks is joined by Anna Titkova MD, PhD, MBA, Country Head Ukraine and Director of International Operations at Pratia. Anna shares how building Ukraine’s first dedicated clinical research unit in March 2020 became the beginning of a much larger story about leadership, responsibility, and continuity through crisis. This is a powerful co...

Building Better Clinical Tech for CRAs with Anna-Liisa Parts 15.04.2026 33:50

In the second episode of The Human Protocol, Theodora Savlovschi-Wicks is joined by Anna-Liisa Parts, COO and Co-Founder of Menken Trials. Anna-Liisa shares her path from genetic engineering into clinical operations, her years as a CRA and clinical lead, and the workload pressures that pushed her to build rather than wait for the system to change. What follows is a grounded conversation about wh...

Building the CRA Community Nobody Else Would with Maria Milas 25.03.2026 49:09

In the first episode of The Human Protocol, Theodora Savlovschi-Wicks is joined by Maria Milas, founder of CRAConnect and a leading voice within clinical research. Recorded during International Women’s Day week, this conversation goes beyond career paths and job titles to explore the reality of working in clinical trials, and the often overlooked role CRAs play in shaping patient outcomes. Mar...