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Trailblazers

Conversations with B2B leaders who challenge conventional thinking, share what they have learned, and help life science sales and marketing teams better understand how buyers actually buy.

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Trailblazers

Conversations with B2B leaders who challenge the status quo

Trailblazers shares conversations with B2B thought leaders who are innovative, thought-provoking, and willing to challenge conventional thinking.

Hosted by Perry Rearick, the series features leaders, marketers, sales professionals, founders, and industry experts who share what they have learned while building companies, leading teams, serving buyers, and navigating change.

How Trailblazers connects to the buyer journey
1

Listen

Hear from leaders who are seeing market change firsthand.

2

Learn

Understand how buyers, teams, and companies are adapting.

3

Rethink

Challenge familiar assumptions about marketing, sales, and growth.

4

Apply

Use the perspective to show up with more relevance and value.

Watch the latest episodes

Right To Play, Right To Win: Boreal’s Business Strategy Story

Right To Play, Right To Win: Boreal’s Business Strategy Story

New cell and gene therapy clinical breakthroughs & manufacturing innovations are emerging quickly in a field characterized by scientific acceleration. It is awfully difficult for CDMOs to effectively communicate their capabilities, let alone establish a new brand in...

AI & Marketing Are Merging To Create A New Wild West In B2B

AI & Marketing Are Merging To Create A New Wild West In B2B

Disappointing results have B2B solution providers questioning the effectiveness of traditional digital marketing, like email and organic website traffic. Vast amounts of time and resources are wasted trying to address the symptoms and there is little progress on...

The Catalent Story

The Catalent Story

The story of Catalent is one for the ages, an epic tale of growth and the establishment of what we now know as the modern pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization. John Chiminski served as the CEO for fourteen extraordinary years and tells...

Why Start-Ups Fail And What Business Leaders Can Do About It

Why Start-Ups Fail And What Business Leaders Can Do About It

Claire Martell is Co-Founder, CEO and President of Murdock-Martell, a finance, accounting and human resources firm that works with some of the most innovative life sciences and technology startups. In this edition of the Trailblazers, she shares her insights into the...

Real B2B Marketing, No Artificial Ingredients

Real B2B Marketing, No Artificial Ingredients

Greg Ippolito, President & Creative Director at Ippolito Media Arts, IMA, is back in this episode of the Trailblazers. He speaks about a new type of silo that is appearing in B2B solution provider companies that results in fragmented marketing plans and has...

Special Edition – CEO Roundtable

Special Edition – CEO Roundtable

Rick Hancock, CEO, Argonaut Manufacturing Services; Tim Lowery, CEO, KBI Biopharma & President, JSR Life Sciences; & Tim Mitchell, CEO Sentry Biopharma Services join me for this edition of the Trailblazers to talk about the tri-partnership they have formed,...

Joseph Carleone’s Touchstones of Leadership

Joseph Carleone’s Touchstones of Leadership

An interview with Joseph Carleone, acclaimed business leader. Mr. Carleone has spent most of his life in executive leadership positions from companies in the defense industry to chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and cosmetics. In those 45-plus years he experienced...

Business Development – Modern Best Practices

Business Development – Modern Best Practices

An interview with Susan Lynch-Smith, Head of Business Development, Douglas CDMO. Sue shares her 30 years of experience in B2B life sciences including the ever-evolving relationship between buyer and solution provider, the importance of empathy, account based...

Being A B2B Media Company In The Modern Information Age

Being A B2B Media Company In The Modern Information Age

An interview with Matt Pillar, Vice President of Editorial & Content, Life Science Connect. Matt talks about what it takes to be a modern B2B media company, how it's done at Life Science Connect, and their Follow Your Reader Strategy.

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