Katrina N. H.

“I have the pleasure of working with Kat on an initiative which she is leading at GlaxoSmithKline. What I admire most about Kat is her energy, focus and drive in accomplishing our mission. There have been a number of setbacks in the process, but Kat has stayed positive and hopeful which I believe to be very important qualities in a leader. In addition, Kat has been supportive regarding in my professional development. She is definitely someone you would want on your team.”

“Kat supported our work at WindMIL for a period of about a year. She quickly got up to speed and provided us with a steady hand for project management. She is a great proponent of driving high performing teams and has a clear passion for the science and for helping patients. She was always willing to lend a hand and go above and beyond to help the team and WindMIL achieve it's broader mission.”

“Kat is an entrepreneurial leader with significant experience drug development. I highly recommend her for supporting your business unit. ”

“I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Katrina at GSK. She listens thoughtfully, learns your process, and uses her deep understanding to ask the hard questions; I appreciate her deep insight and the clarity she brings to problem solving. She is a generous and inspiring leader: she mentors others formally and informally, and her work ethic, transparency and thoughtfulness have earned her admirers in every team she has worked with.”

“Katrina High is an outstanding member of the African American Alliance Employee Resource Group Team. She oversees global membership for our various sites. Katrina is always willing to offer a helping hand, follow up in a timely manner and does so with a friendly smile. She genuinely cares for people, their development and overall well-being often offering insight from her own career journey to assist in developing others. Katrina would be an asset to any team she joins as she brings the highest level of professionalism, promptness in addressing issues and attention to detail. ”

“Katrina, worked with me at Innopharma, she is a positive individual, Katrina know how to manage a cross functional teams. Her in-depth understanding of CMC development will come handy for effective project management. She is very instrumental in facilitating decision making and conflict resolution. Katrina is indeed an seasoned pharmaceutical project manager. ”

“Katrina is instrumental in project management skills and taking initiative on improving the process and simplifying the objectives. Excellent with people skill and managing cross functional team members. She has been extensively interested in learning new things and is detail oriented. Hope we cross path again. It was pleasure works with you. ”

“Katrina is a highly motivated leader who is connector of people. She has great business acumen and brings great energy to teams”

“Katrina is a highly motivated, hard working, delivery focused person and a great team player. For teams needing engaging, proactive participants who they will enjoy working with she will be a great fit. ”

“Katrina is an Industrious, skilled project manager who is very knowledgeable about pharmaceutical development and commercialization. She is a very agile learner when placed in new or unique situations. She can take very complex problems, tease out the constituent components, prioritize the work, and plan the project around the key deliverables. One of Katrina’s core capabilities is an extremely high level of emotional intelligence. She a careful and considerate listener who will seek and understand the motivational factors for all team members. During technical debate, Katrina is able to use that understanding to design solutions that will not only accomplish the project goals, but also provide the lasting motivational factors necessary for everyone to work together to achieve them. Katrina’s broader impact is the enterprise view she takes in her work. Katrina addresses issues in a logical, systematic way not just to solve an immediate problem, but to create enduring systems and processes that create stronger ways of working, increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization to complete its mission. It was a pleasure working with Katrina in BioMPD, and I remain continually impressed about how she has taken on new roles and excelled in each one. I wouldn't hesitate to work with her again, and would highly recommend her to anyone needing high performing, consummate professional to take on new challenges.”

“Kat is an inspirational team member and leader. She can see the nuances of a challenge and get the team to think about a solution for the project rather than individual components of the project. Her energy and positive approach engages any team that she is a part of, and allows her to achieve tangible outcomes, even through challenging change curves. Kat has a technical and scientific background, combined with a very personable and clear communication style, and it is this blend of the technical and softer skills that lead to a very effective voice for optimal team decision making.”

“Kat is an enthusiastic leader who knows how to challenge and move teams through change. Kat was instrumental as a site lead on a US/PR collaboration project helping to focus a multi site team on identifying areas for improved Commercial collaboration for business impact. She brings a fresh perspective for creative problem solving.”

“Kat is great to work with. She brings energy and inspiration to the team she works with by being a good listener and constantly engaged. ”

“Katrina played a pivotal role in both informing on and developing new processes then ultimately helping to drive a key change initiative at our company aimed at improving ways of working and implementation of an enterprise wide planning system. Katrina was instrumental in seeking alignment within her group by effectively articulating the need for change and supporting teams which drove successful completion of the initial pilot programs. Katrina is definitely a champion of change.”

“I’ve had the privilege of working with Katrina High during her time as a Senior Project Manager at GSK. Kat was the project manager responsible for initiatives and the relationship between my company, Red Ventures, and GSK. When Kat joined the team, she quickly got up to speed on all things digital marketing and showed herself not only to be organized and thorough but also gained knowledge of the projects we were working on so she could make recommendations and contributions to the conversation. She didn’t just manage the project, she owned the project. I was also very impressed at her ability to build a team culture that was built on respect and accountability but infused with the opportunity to relate to each other as people and have fun. I recommend Kat for any project manager position that needs a quick learner, dynamic leadership, and a true team player.”

“ Katrina understands the nuances of a project and has the ability to see through the requirements and challenges that would need attention as the projects progress to successful completion. She has in the past role as my colleague been able to pursue stake holders to go over and beyond to support project progress aligning their teams to expectations. Katrina has her signature approach to people and crisis management which is both smooth enough and adequately clear to encourage teams to integrate to a common goal. Her commitment to work, focus and attention to details used to give me the confidence that Katrina was on top of the task at all times. Her desire to learn was augmented with her patience and her learning curve speaks volumes of her transformation from the time she joined INNOPHARMA through her tenure. ”

“I have worked with Katrina High on two different projects, both being the development, manufacturing and commercialisation of new BioPharm products. In both cases Katrina was the Project Manager working closely with myself as the Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) Leader for those projects. Katrina is a brilliant project manager, she is able to turn high level goals into detailed project plans through working in this case the Technical Leads to really understand the requirements. Katrina has a talent for questioning team members constructively and often providing alternate options in the spirit of delivering the best outcomes. Katrina is enormously positive and has been a great asset to myself and the teams we worked with. Her biggest skill in my view is her learning agility, she can contribute great work very quickly in new or changing situations.”

“I recommend Katrina (Kat) High as a highly talented, agile, forward thinking seasoned Project Manager. Kat asks the questions that need to be asked and suggest innovative solutions to ensure the success of any project that she is managing. Kat is easy to Work with, a fast learner and WILL GET THE JOB DONE!”

“Katrina is a very detail and focus person with a strong understanding of the issues that is at hand.”