Watch: ThermoFisher Scientific’s Lauren Libitz discusses the skills comms leaders need to succeed
Counsel for comms leaders as they climb the career ladder.
Ragan’s Council Career Conversations, a recurring video series from Ragan’s Communications Leadership Council, allows members to share the strategies that made them leaders and the lessons they’ve learned about their careers.
Lauren Libitz, senior director of global communications at ThermoFisher Scientific, told Ragan that a sense of agility is a must for ascendant communications leaders.
“As a leader, you need to be agile and flexible with not only what’s going on in the outside world but with what’s going on in your particular company,” Libitz said.
She added that comms leaders also need to lean into transparency with their teams.
“The more transparent you can be as a leader, the more effective you can be as a leader,” she said. “It’s a combination of being able to flex and approach things differently depending on the environment and being able to tell you’re team what you’re doing.”
Libitz also shared that leaders should think deeply about how they show up every day for their teams.
“Now that you’ve been given an opportunity to step up as a leader, what does that mean?” she posited. “As you shift from the day-to-day and you get a seat at the table, how are you going to use it?”
Check out more of our conversation with Libitz below.
Sean Devlin is an editor at Ragan Communications. In his spare time he enjoys Philly sports and hosting trivia.
