Sarah Holmes-Klotz
Global Head People & Culture Santhera Pharmaceuticals
Sarah Holmes‑Klotz, GPHR is Global Head of People & Culture at Santhera Pharmaceuticals, based in Basel. She brings broad international HR leadership experience across biotech and life sciences, with deep expertise in talent development, change management, and building high‑performing global organisations.
Seminars
- How can a biotech company safeguard its entrepreneurial spirit during a period of hypergrowth and commercialization?
- Learn how Santhera embedded cultural ambassadors, prioritized hiring for cultural fit, and elevated employee experience as a strategic driver of scale
- Even while growing at record pace, Santhera preserved its core identity and strengthened engagement, ensuring culture became a catalyst rather than a casualty of expansion
This interactive Q&A explores the relationship between data-led culture transformation and the values-led, trust-based approach to engagement, two complementary but distinct strategies that between them cover the full spectrum of what it takes to make culture change stick. Participants will examine which approaches apply most to their own context, and what combination of measurement rigour and human-centered design delivers the best results.
- How do you balance data and diagnostics with the intuitive, relationship-based elements of culture work?
- What does a genuinely flexible working model require from leadership, and where does it typically break down?
- How do you build accountability for culture outcomes into leadership performance, not just HR programs?
- What metrics best capture whether a culture transformation is genuinely taking hold?
