Kristen Stants
Chief People Officer Parabilis Medicines
Kristen Stants is an HR executive with broad experience across talent strategy and management, leadership development, talent acquisition, diversity and inclusion, organizational effectiveness, and change management. An innovative and pragmatic business partner, she has built a track record of leading and influencing change while building trusted, productive relationships across all levels of an organization. She has served as Chief People Officer at Parabilis Medicines since 2023, and previously held HR leadership roles at Magenta Therapeutics and Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
Seminars
- How can a biotech preserve the culture that built its success while scaling rapidly during its most demanding period of growth to date?
- Learn how Parabilis, celebrating its 10-year anniversary, closed the biggest biotech IPO in history, an oversubscribed round, on the strength of its Helicon technology, which is designed to reach undruggable targets that make up an estimated 80% of cancers
- Discover how Parabilis’s five person HR team is scaling deliberately through this growth, while identifying which parts of its culture must be protected to sustain the momentum
This interactive Q&A explores how to preserve culture and protect talent pipelines through both rapid growth and unexpected setbacks.
- Scaling a people function deliberately during a period of rapid headcount growth
- Maintaining candidate engagement and pipeline integrity through an unexpected hiring delay
- Using authentic, personalized communication to protect long-term talent commitment
