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About Midday Mindshare
This event is part of Midday Mindshare, a monthly series created for CIC Members to learn, connect, and recharge together. Each month highlights a different topic led by innovators, founders, and subject-matter experts who bring valuable insights to our community. Every session offers fresh perspectives designed to support both personal and professional growth within the CIC ecosystem.
About this session
Medical innovation is advancing at an unprecedented pace, yet access to these breakthroughs remains deeply unequal. From who is represented in clinical trials, to who benefits from emerging therapies, data-driven tools, and workforce opportunities, inequity continues to shape outcomes long before a product ever reaches the market.
In this one-hour session, we will explore how equity must be intentionally designed into the future of medical innovation, not as an afterthought, but as a core operating principle. Drawing from real-world experience across clinical research, life sciences strategy, and community-centered health initiatives, the talk will examine where the system breaks down, why traditional approaches have fallen short, and what a more person-centered, trust-based model looks like in practice.
Participants will gain insight into:
- How structural barriers limit access to clinical trials and emerging therapies
- Why trust, data integrity, and community engagement are foundational to innovation
- The role of life sciences organizations, startups, investors, and policymakers in closing the access gap
- Practical strategies to align innovation with real-world impact improving outcomes while expanding reach
This session is designed for leaders, innovators, and changemakers who believe the future of medicine must work for everyone and who are ready to help shape a more inclusive, sustainable innovation ecosystem.
Bites & Beverages provided by our friends at Beantrust!
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About Our Speaker:
Tamika Jackson:
Tamika Jackson is the Executive Director and Founder of The Beautiful Way Foundation (TBW) and Chief Executive Officer of Successful Strategies for Life Sciences (SSLS). She is a visionary and influential leader committed to transforming the future of healthcare and life sciences by centering equity, community empowerment, and inclusive excellence.
The Beautiful Way Foundation (TBW)
As the founder of The Beautiful Way Foundation, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, Tamika established the organization to dismantle healthcare disparities and create pathways to opportunity for underserved and underrepresented communities. TBW serves as a central hub that bridges the life sciences industry, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, CROs, investors, academic institutions, and workforce agencies—with the communities historically left behind.
Through TBW, Tamika leads large-scale initiatives that:
• Educate communities on clinical trials and the healthcare system
• Provide free health, wellness, and social-support resources through community-based clinics and events
• Create pipelines into high-growth careers in biotech, manufacturing, AI, and sustainability
• Build frameworks that ensure community voice informs clinical research, policy, and investment decisions
TBW’s model empowers local residents by addressing the whole person, health, wealth, and opportunity, while creating a clear and ethical pathway for the life sciences industry to engage with communities.
Successful Strategies for Life Sciences (SSLS)
In addition to her nonprofit leadership, Tamika is the CEO and Founder of Successful Strategies for Life Sciences (SSLS), a global consulting firm providing end-to-end support across the product lifecycle. SSLS helps life sciences organizations raise capital, design and manage clinical development programs, prepare regulatory submissions, and achieve successful approval and commercialization outcomes. SSLS aligns technical excellence with relationship-driven partnership, reducing the need to manage multiple consulting firms and simplifying execution with one standard and one strategic vision.
Advancing Equity and Inclusive Leadership
Across both organizations, Tamika works to ensure:
• Inclusive clinical research that represents the diversity of real-world populations
• Women and minority leaders are equipped and connected to serve on boards and in the C-suite
• Women and BIPOC founders gain access to networks, capital, and visibility to scale their companies
She is a catalyst for innovation and a powerful advocate for creating systems that recognize the brilliance and capacity already present in communities.
Ready to join us?
All CIC members are encouraged to join us for this free event. Fill out the form below to register!
Questions? Reach out to events@cic.com