Nori Ebersole
Chief People Officer Mirador Therapeutics
Nori Ebersole is the Chief People Officer at Mirador Therapeutics with over two decades of executive HR leadership across biotech, pharma, and professional services, specializing in scaling organizations through transformational growth. She is known for building high performing teams, guiding companies through IPO and M&A, and shaping culture and talent strategies that drive enterprise value.
Seminars
The role of the CHRO and CPO has never been more complex or more consequential. As life sciences organizations navigate simultaneous pressures, from AI-driven restructuring and geopolitical volatility to talent scarcity and shifting employee expectations, the people function is being asked to do more, with less, faster than ever before.
In this candid, peer-to-peer discussion, a group of the most senior HR leaders in life sciences come together to share what is actually working, what isn’t, and what they wish they’d done differently. Expect frank conversation on how to maintain culture through relentless change, how to position HR as a true strategic partner to the C-suite, and how to build a people function that is genuinely fit for the future.
- How can an HR function shape a high‑growth biotech’s success when the organization starts with no people, no processes, and no infrastructure?
- Explore how Mirador Therapeutics built a best‑in‑class culture while simultaneously scaling scientific execution at extraordinary pace
- Learn the intentional talent strategy behind filing three INDs in one year, raising $413M (Series A) and $250M (Series B), and maintaining rigorous hiring discipline, ensuring resources were deployed judiciously, and every new hire strengthened operational execution
- Discover how the organization earned Great Place to Work® certification, a measurable ROI demonstrating high employee trust, engagement, and cultural strength, an achievement directly tied to HR’s active partnership with the CEO, strong leadership alignment, and a deliberate focus on building high‑performing teams from scratch
This interactive Q&A examines the culture challenge at the heart of hypergrowth, how to move fast enough to capture opportunity while protecting the identity, values, and ways of working that made the organization worth scaling in the first place. Drawing on both the Day Zero culture build and the ambassador-led approach to hypergrowth, participants will examine what is truly non-negotiable in culture at scale.
- What cultural elements are genuinely non-negotiable as an organization scales, and how do you protect them?
- How do you hire for cultural fit at speed without using it as cover for lack of diversity?
- What role do people leaders and managers play in sustaining culture when HR can no longer be everywhere?
- How do you know when culture is starting to erode, and what are the early warning signals?
