About the Author

Jane Y. Chin is founder of 9Pillars, a consultancy focused on creating significance through one’s career, business, and life. Chin is author of Practical Leadership for Biopharmaceutical Executives (management, 2011), PhD [alternative] Career Clinic (2011), and The Youngest Light (creative nonfiction, 2011).

Chin was founder and president of Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Institute. She was the founding publisher of MSL Quarterly, the field-medical science liaison profession’s first management journal. In 2006, PharmaVoice magazine named Chin as one of life science industry’s 100 Most Inspiring People for her unique contribution to the medical science liaison profession.

Chin has a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology from Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) and a PhD in biochemistry from University of Buffalo at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, New York). She has a certification in competitive intelligence from the Academy of Competitive Intelligence (Boston, Massachusetts).

Praise for Jane’s work

“One of the reasons I find your materials so useful Jane as you are very realistic and honest. I really enjoyed reading through the materials on your webpage. I also think you are the first person I have seen at least that has really attached an entirely different language and way and describing a PhD and academia. I really connected on the ROI description. What a fantastic and truthful way to describe it! reading your materials really has turned a light bulb on in my head…you have the courage to write [sic] about these commonalities, when, those in academia really in a way brainwash us NOT to see them.”
– Emily F.

“Jane has been an invaluable guide, coach, mentor and friend in my transition to a career beyond academia. What’s more, I’m an outlier in her community in that I’m tenured faculty in computing (we have learned the hard way that few resources developed for a generalized science audience are effective for computer folk.) Nonetheless, Jane’s approach to this difficult issue is so collaborative and affirming that I have found much that has been relevant and useful for me.”
– Hilary H.