Video: Bio-Rad Kicks Off Leadership Development Program

May 29, 2025

A class of 30 Bio-Rad leaders recently met at Bio-Rad’s Hercules, California headquarters for the launch of this year’s Leadership Development Program. Now in its second year, the program provides leadership training and professional growth opportunities to leaders across Bio-Rad’s global teams.  

At the heart of the program are five critical business challenges that participants must attempt to solve within dynamic, cross-functional teams. Together, each team must research, analyze, and make recommendations to senior leadership on how best to address the challenge. 

“What’s unique about the program is that leaders are deliberately put into a project where they’re not the subject matter expert,” says Patsy Kennedy, Senior Director, Global Talent Development and leader for the program. “The richness of the learning comes in how the leaders deal with ambiguity when they are faced with a problem and have to find their way through it together.”  

In the video below, two participants talk about their experiences beginning the program and meeting their teams during the first "residency" held in May of this year. 

The nine-month program will explore a number of leadership concepts through case studies, storytelling, and interactive learning, and each participant also meets with an executive coach for ongoing feedback. The program is also designed to be sustainable by creating strong leaders who will mentor the next generation of leaders. 

“The other thing I love is that everyone who goes through the program is expected to pay it forward," says Patsy. "There is a kind of a 'give back' element, as the 2024 graduates are now mentoring the 2025 participants, and the 2025 participants will be mentoring to the 2026 class next year." 


 
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