Event details
The path to advancing your career can seem daunting at first, but by accessing professional development resources, engaging sponsors and mentors, and creating your own personal brand, building your unique career path is not only achievable, it’s fulfilling.
Join leaders from Johnson & Johnson for a discussion on how you can strategically move your career forward and land your first management role. From landing your first leadership role to understanding the skillsets & competencies that make a successful leader, participants will learn:
- How to build your personal brand and conversation toolkit to advocate for your first leadership role
- Tactical advice to excel in management roles and build your unique career path, including how to develop your leadership style
- How to engage sponsors and mentors
- Tips for communicating with employees and managing difficult conversations
- Skills and competencies necessary for the Leaders of the Future
This event will be recorded and posted here following the event. We'll also email the recording directly to everyone who registers.
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Meet the speakers

Mitra Hummer
Director Business Excellence, Strategy & Deployment
Mitra Hummer is Director, Strategy and Deployment Small Molecules, Janssen Supply Chain where she together with the Platform leadership team is setting strategy and executing transformational projects for the platform. Mitra is a Civil Engineer with a Masters in Construction. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Mitra started her career in the automotive industry, then gained FMCG experience, before ending up in the pharmaceutical industry first with Pfizer Inc. and finally Johnson & Johnson. In the more than 20 years of working experience Mitra has worked across most dimensions of the supply chain and has lead large operation teams as well as smaller Business Excellence teams. Regardless the size of the team Mitra truly enjoys engaging with emerging talent, working on developing her team members into their authentic selves and supporting them as they succeed. Mitra is the proud mother of 5 children, and she and her family is now based back in their native Copenhagen, Denmark.

Aline Resende
Sr. Manufacturing Supervisor
Aline Resende joined JnJ in 2018, and she was part of the GOLD program (Operations Leadership Development Program). In her rotations, she worked as a business excellence analyst, process engineer and quality excellence supervisor. Now, in her final place, she is working as Sr Manufacturing Supervisor, leading a group approx.. 50 people at Janssen Brazil packaging area. Aline describes herself as passionate leader, being fully engaged and committed to achieving her goals while helping her team achieve theirs.

Dr. Christina Norris-Watts
Head of Selection Assessment and Competencies
Dr. Christina Norris-Watts is the Head of Selection Assessment and Competencies at Johnson & Johnson. In this role she’s responsible for defining and leading the enterprise-wide selection assessment strategy as well as overseeing the strategy and guidance for J&J’s enterprise-wide leadership and functional competency models. Christina has over fifteen years of experience in talent assessment and talent management specifically focusing on selection assessments, competency modeling, job analysis, organizational analytics, litigation support, job architecture, career pathing, and test validation.