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Sandra Walker is CEO, Viacern Group, and Venture Partner at Hard Climate, a seasoned and inspirational pharma and biotech executive leading Commercial, Medical Operations and Excellence, Government Affairs, Global Strategy and Product Planning at companies such as Genentech, Roche, Eli Lilly and Abbvie. She delivered a state-of-the-art, candid, and intriguing keynote presentation that forces you to reflect on the language and process you use to make decisions in medicine, healthcare, and how you can challenge your current approaches and biases using neuroscience-based practical, real-world solutions to make bolder decisions with evidence to drive innovation forward.

3:10 Speaker Introduction

4:12 Turning Innovation into Outcomes

Three Common recurring Decision Patterns

Explaining Biases in Decision-making

Practical Solutions to Transform Decisions

The Bolder Way

Decision Audit

5:56 Three Invisible Decision Patterns

6:37 Status Quo Bias

8:51 Countermoves You Can Use vs Status Quo Bias

9:29 Confirmation Bias

11:54 10-Minute Challenge Round To use Vs. Confirmation Bias

13:09 Completion Bias - Relief of Feeling Done

16:30 Explaining the Brain under Pressure with Neuroscience

18:50 How to Quiet the Noise in Bias

Label the state – identify the bias, problem, risk

Externalize thinking – move ideas onto paper to createpublic reasoning

Teach the cheerleader to celebrate learning not justfinishing.

Train for Learning not Finishing

21:01 The Bolder Way - 6 steps to turn Awareness into Action

B - Bias and Blind Spots visualization (see the invisible)

O - Observe: Disciplined Curiosity

L - Learn: Broadened Perspectives

D - Decide with clarity and transparency

E - Empower: Trust with Context

R - Recalibrate: Boldness into Learning

27:11 Bolder Way Framework Aligned to the Scientific Method

28:02 Language You Use is Key to Decision Outcome

28:38 The Decision Audit to Deliver Clarity in 5 Minutes

31:09 How Speed of Decision Impacts the Outcome

Alex Giorgetti is a celebrated professional water polo World Champion, Olympic Silver Medalist and owner of a non-profit organization, Giorgetti Athletics where his goal it to build next generation champions ready to earn top scholarships in best U.S. universities or reach professional water polo leagues across Europe. He was a guest keynote speaker at the 4th annual Medical Innovation Olympics where he shared vivid lessons from Olympics and World Championships on maintaining a resilient mindset, the power of generating strong unity and habits in teams, Medical Innovations in analytics to personalize training to a given player or position, and tangible lessons to build winning teams in business.0:00 Team Sport is like an Orchestra - Highlight

2:22 Speaker Introduction3:25 Lessons from Championships on BusinessDiscipline, power of teamwork. Tough sport mentally and physically. Giorgetti Athletics is a non-profit organization. We teach young swimmers about water safety, teach young athletes how to achieve sports scholarships at the most competitive colleges in the U.S., reach professional leagues in Europe. Our goal is to be an inspiration for the next generation.5:15 - Secrets to 4-year Championship Streak on Italy's Water Polo Team5:59 - Team Sport is like an Orchestra Everyone needs to be connected and synchronized in the right moment or music loses its flow. Sports teams without unity lose rhythm. Unity with strong mindset is what Alex calls the magic bubble. Our winning teams during this 4-year streak won games 2 hours before we even jumped into the pool. We did not have to think or plan - we were spontaneous.8:04 - Role of Preparation, Visualization and Recovery on Winning80% of the result depends on your mindset. Visualization and Recovery are most critical9:42 What types of medical approaches did you use in those Championship teams?Cold water therapy, heart rate monitoring scans. 10:20 - Physicians were taking blood tests during 100% fatigue and pressure. This allowed our coaches to know when to rest which roles - centers who fight a lot under water. These medical analytics and tools11:44 - What role do rules and formats of competition play on the outcomes in sports and business?The pool length has shortened from 33 to 25 meters to , lower threshold for exclusions or penalties including physical contact even with one hand blocking a player.13:16 Key in Sports & Business - who is quicker to adapt & keep calm?Peace of mind. Those more calm, self-confident who understand that they have all the answers inside ultimately win.15:18 Life & Business LessonOnly 1 Good Habit can build the Best Version of Yourself

#MEDICALINNOVATION #OLYMPICSWIMMING #championmindset

This is an inspirational keynote presentation on October 6, 2025, at the Opening Ceremony of the 2025 Medical lnnovation Olympics from Chris Cook, double Olympian swimmer, double Commonwealth Games Champion, World Championship Bronze Medalist, motivational speaker at companies such as Microsoft and some of the largest health systems across the globe, and consultant to the U.K.'s government's National Health Service.Chris shares three specific personal stories that span Olympic level training, building the next generation of Olympic champions, and transformation of teamwork across a Healthcare system with psychological safety.

0:00 Timeline - Highlights

2:12 - Intro: 3 Key Messages - Evidence-based Confidence, Clarity, and Psychological Safety

3:28 - Biggest lesson on Confidence during the Toughest Season (2006)

4:57 - Measure what Matters: Heart Rate, Stroke Rate, Time, Perceived Exertion

5:35 - Challenge: Beat the Average from Previous Week

5:51 - Turning Point: Started to be obsessed with Progress

7:10 - Leadership Phase after Retirement

7:27 - Ambition Programme - Team Great Britain - less than 8% of first time Olympians medal, intense build-up, media attention of the Olympics

8:35 Pilot Project of First-time Olympians Created environment for potential stars to feel like Olympians, media mock-interviews, etc.

9:41 Ambition Programme Alumni & Results307 athletes have finished this program40% represent Team GB 11% of the athletes in the program win a medal

10:12- When we get clear we level up certainty

Ask it, answer it, and action it - the last one drives certainty

10:50 - Collaboration with the National Health Service in the UK

New programs: 1) Creating Psychological Safety to share, contribute, and debate; 2) Radical Candor. In less than 18 months, the pilot transformed one department, then started to spread

12:34 - Teamwork thrives on Psychological Safety

12:56 - Keynote SummaryConfidence is built from evidenceWhen we are unclear, things become uncertain - Challenge to the audience!True teamwork starts when we are safe to take risks

On this episode of Alloutcoach, host Tim Mikhelashvili, CEO, Amedea Pharma convenes a panel you rarely hear in one room: a policy-minded biohacker and investor (John Hemming, CEO of Cirrostratus, Biohacking Team Leader), a strategy and operations leader who reshapes patient journeys (Bart Zoni, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Woven Health Collective), and an early-stage investor focused on medical technologies (Chris Piedmonte, Managing Director, Neoterra Capital) as well as a senior pharma thought leader in Medical Affairs and Health Economics, Janelle Hardisty. Their catalyst? Fresh takeaways from the 2025 Financial Times US Pharma summit — and an honest look at what’s truly accelerating innovation, what’s stalling it, and where capital and talent should go next.

00:00:00 Cold Open - Episode Highlights: AI accuracy and access
00:03:43 Host Intro and Why This Episode
00:04:41 Guest Intros
00:08:06 State of Innovation - Tailwinds and Headwinds
00:12:41 What’s Really Accelerating Innovation?
00:19:27 Drug Discovery - Reducing the 90% Failure Rate
00:22:01 Clinical Trials - Modernize or Stall
00:25:11 Access, PBMs, and Direct-to-Patient
00:27:03 Longevity and Prevention - Can We Measure It?
00:36:52 Data Culture Maturity and Pilot Fatigue
00:45:52 Training the Future Workforce
00:51:09 Investing - Where Should Capital Flow?
00:57:08 Regulatory Reality and Time-to-Access
00:59:27 Closing and Invite to Medical Innovation Olympics