WEBRG AMERICAS
Winter 2023
What's Happening Around WEBRG
VIP WEBRG PARKING
The Hillsboro WE-BRG chapter has a new VIP Parking Spot sign! Ever since our chapter was founded in 2017, we have had our own parking spot near the employee entrance, which we raffle off to our members each month. We are excited to have a fresh sign with our new emblem!
Promotions to Celebrate in Fort Collins
Katie Greiner, our WEBRG Career Development chair was promoted from a Process Engineer to Operations Technical Project Manager in November! She has lead our site's ECO process and developed improvements, is involved in process mapping and leading our site's PPI initiative, and manages the CST finance integration project at the Fort Collins site! In her new role, she will also lead high priority strategic projects supporting growth in Operations through standardized processes and organizational change framework."
"Natalie Lusk, our WEBRG chapter Co-Lead, was promoted from an Engineer III to an R&D Manager in August! She oversees the Bigfoot Big Rocks initiative and other Bigfoot project management tasks, and in her new role also reports for R&D Bigfoot activities within PCA and is a people leader!
Check out what's happening in San Jose
September books donation drive for local Boys and Girls Club
MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER WALK
Meditation Workshop with Pop Up Zendo
SJ WEBRG member Nigama Ekkad has been promoted to Director of Product Evaluation San Jose Promotion!
As part of an ongoing commitment to encourage career development,we held a cross-functional 'Get to know the Microarray BU' Round table event in August hosted by the Santa Clara WEBRG.
Microarray BU at Santa Clara
All our colleagues from various teams signed up for round table conversations with leaders/ representatives from the 12 different functions within Microarray BU. Our colleagues had the opportunity to connect with representatives/leaders from different teams, gain cross-functional knowledge, and explore new areas of interest. With over 85 attendees, there was a lot of enthusiasm and energy with great engagement from all the participants
NEXT GENERATION OF WOMEN ON THE MOVE
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Our CRG colleague, Chesa Cofini, embarked on a 10 day trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp. The trip was inspired by a local 16 year old woman. Prior to the trip Chesa and River joined WEBRG in a Teams event. Those who attended got to her about what has inspired River to pursue the lofty goal of becoming the youngest American femail to summit Mt. Everest and what inspired Chesa to join the trek to base camp.
Belonging Week 2023 WEBRG Americas created a slide show with many of our members sharing how they feel connected her at Thero Fisher Scientific
To conclude the Belonging Week, all the BRGs at the Carlsbad Site came together and hosted a BRG expo. We shared what belonging means to us, talked about our upcoming events, gave away our swag and some mouthwatering snacks. Carlsbad BRG Expo!
Belonging Week in Santa Clara Celebrating diversity fosters a rich tapestry of perspectives, experiences, and cultures, driving innovation and creativity.
We held an ethnic day event where we encouraged our colleagues to display their ethnicities and diversities via food and attire.
Our colleagues volunteered to pack 500 hygiene kits for ‘Clean the world organization. What a spirit of involvement to give back to the community !!
We had a fun Kick off with a fun Virtual Escape room where we tested our spy skills Thank you to our hosts Gates, Casey E. and team.
A big shout out to our site ambassador Choy, Margaret for organizing and coordinating all the events and sincere Thanks to our VPGM Lowitz, Kevin P. for his support throughout.
WEBRG had Breast Cancer Awareness in the Spotlight October is a busy month for WEBRG. Many of our chapters hold inspiring events to support our colleagues who have had breat cancer, are battling breat cancer or have family members who have or have had the disearse.
Our Burlington Site host a run for the cure
Pinktober and supporting local charities
Our Wilmington chapter held a pumpkin decorating contest in conjunction with raising awareness and supporting a local breast cancer support charity, Going Beyond the Pink.
LATAM Breast Cancer Awareness
Beginning the end of August and all through September, the leadership team of the LA WEBRG CRG Chapter planned all that would be pink in the region for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023 .
We set a goal: "Empowering our
women and men with relevant information about breast cancer, since we insist on the idea that for this type of information, repetition is the key".
Our 6 countries were in “pink” and had several voluntary options to participate from either virtuality as in person. A special Thank You to everyone who participated in some way during these weeks
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When CRG was acquired by Thermo Fisher, I had been slowly working on revitalizing our Richmond, VA Women’s Empowerment Network Chapter, one that I had help to start in 2019 and which had seen its share of engagement ups and downs. With the acquisition, I was introduced to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s WEBRG and jumped at the chance to apply for the open co-lead spot for the Americas region. Here, I found a group of colleagues as passionate and engaged as I was, willing to devote their time and energy to their YAY job within WE-BRG. Looking back at the last two years (I can’t believe it’s been two years!), I have had the honor and privilege of meeting and collaborating with so many amazing folks in WE-BRG. I have learned how to be a better ally to our colleagues across BRGs, continued to advocate for women in the workplace, and seen the brilliance of our chapter members in their monthly spotlights and at our events and summits. I want to thank everyone for welcoming me to the Thermo WE-BRG family, even when our systems didn’t. And it’s not good-bye, but see you soon as I move on to WE-BRG Global Co-Lead. A message from Amy...
Amy Lavelle has been co-lead of our Americas team for 2 years now. It is her time to move on to her next WEBRG chapter as one of our Global WEBRG Leads. Amy's leadership, time and efforts have been a gift to WEBRG Americas and we are excited to see all that you will do with Global WEBRG!
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