Diversity is a key component of success for the medical device industry

Ensuring your voice is heard
“I think as an organisation we are quite diverse and reasonably good at making sure that everyone gets their voice heard  articularly the junior staff who are always encouraged to make their suggestions,” she says. “Engineering is ultimately problem solving, so the more different kind of attitudes and  opinions you can get to a problem, the more likely you will be able to reach a reasonable solution, otherwise it’s very easy to go down  a rabbit hole.”  New Zealander Helen became interested in science while in high school and graduated from  Massey University with a BSc in Microbiology and Psychology.  She moved to the UK in 2000,  where she found a wealth of opportunities to get into the  pharmaceutical industry and took  a job with GlaxoSmithKline where
she stayed for 13 years.