Speaker Bio - Mona Kay Rifi

Mona Kay helps professionals achieve their goals through her flagship stakeholder relationship-building workshops and speaking engagements. With over 25 years in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, she understands the power of trust-based relationships, and how they can accelerate productivity, career growth, and goal achievement.

Mona Kay has firsthand experience navigating the frustration of lost productivity due to weak stakeholder engagement. Determined to overcome this roadblock, she learned to strategically build and maintain key business relationships - turning resistant stakeholders into collaboration champions.

While serving as a certified corporate ombuds, Mona Kay heard similar stories from other employees, and used the skills she learned to help diagnose and resolve these business relationship challenges. Clients consistently reported that her coaching led to increased trust and improved productivity, and they frequently provided glowing testimonials and referrals to colleagues.

Realizing that building business-critical relationships is a skill that can be taught and used repeatedly, she became determined to teach this skill to others.

Today, Mona Kay speaks about the skill of building and maintaining business relationships to professionals across all levels. Participants learn to earn trust faster, engage more effectively, and become the kind of business partners that executives notice and want on their teams. Her speaking engagements and workshops are appropriate for teams in any function who depend on stakeholder buy-in but often struggle to get it. The result: deeper trust, quicker decisions, more innovative ideas, better budget control, and higher overall success rates.

Clients experience Mona Kay as empathetic, engaging, and passionate while providing practical, real-world solutions. She regularly facilitated workshops and moderated panels while employed at various pharmaceutical companies, and has most recently spoken at the Association for Talent Development (ATD), the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), and other professional organizations.