Sheila Babnis

Sheila is a pioneer, trend-spotter and change agent who uses her business wisdom to prepare individuals, teams, functions, divisions and organizations for future realities.  She brings over 25 years of leadership and coaching, both in the US and Europe, for health care and consumer products organizations.  Her thought partnership in the areas of business transformation and innovation have propelled many organization to take the first steps to achieve new levels of success, design with the consumer/patient in mind so that they are competitive in today’s world.

As an expert in both business transformation and innovation, Sheila works with CEOs and Founders, senior level executives and department managers to develop their 21st century business strategies and approaches to innovation. Her extensive global business background, strategic mindset, unique ability to inspire and catalyze, along with a 21st century leadership style, distinguish her in this unique business advisor role. Her specialties include working with small to mid-size pioneering companies, as well as multi-national businesses who want to accelerate time to market and provide high value products to consumers.  Her clients include Fortune 50 organizations that are mature and have a well-defined market share to start-up firms where rapid change and fierce competition are constant companions.
 
Recently Sheila served as the Global Head of Strategic Innovation for Roche/Genentech. Her work focused on driving paradigm-shifting changes to drug development, employee engagement and health that are required to ensure a healthy, thriving, sustainable future for patients and the healthcare industry.  Sheila’s career spans senior leadership roles in Innovation, Acquisitions and Integration, Product Development, Operations, Distribution and Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Quality. Her track record includes starting up and institutionalizing the portfolio and project management organization at i3Logic/Statprobe and enabling Pepsi/Frito-Lay to work in self-managed teams and integrate the use of digital technology to ensure quality and cost management.