CorePurpose Chairman Speaks Out for Health Innovation on the Vital Health Podcast

Joan Koerber-Walker is President and CEO of the Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio), supporting one of the top emerging biotech clusters in the United States. Trained as an economist and a biotech investor herself, Joan is no stranger to pricing discussions. As the Build Back Better debate reached a fever pitch, all eyes turned to Arizona given the bill’s focus on drug pricing and Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s known support of the Arizona Biotech Sector.  While Build Back Better is no more, the drug pricing debate is not going away anytime soon.

In this podcast we discuss how the drug pricing debate threatens to derail innovation, as does aggressive tax policy positions being taken by many leaders in traditionally pro-biotech states like California and Massachusetts. The biotech sector in Arizona has been a direct beneficiary of many of these decisions.

As well, we discuss how institutions like the Mayo Clinic, which have a large footprint in Arizona, are making big investments developing a commercial R&D hub called the Discovery Oasis. Joan highlights how the Mayo Clinic fertilizes innovation across Arizona’s Health Innovation Ecosystem, and how that lays the groundwork for product development locally.

CorePurpose Chairman Talks Leadership and Growth on the Human Performance Podcast

The Human Performance Podcast:  On the Podcast this week is the legendary author, speaker and entrepreneur Joan Koerber-Walker. Joan is President and CEO of the Arizona Bioindustry Association and founder of CorePurpose, Inc. and in this weeks podcast discusses how to grow your company, the most important aspects of company culture and how to get the most out of yourself and your people as your business scales.

 

STEM Education: Delicious Results

Young Mason Partak, with help from his Mom, Kathy, are using technology in the form of GoFundMe to outfit the kitchen of his elementary school so that kids can learn to cook and students can have hot meals  to  fuel their brains and bodies.  What a great example of STEM education in action. Continue reading

Innovators: Thank a Teacher Today

As innovators, we make progress every day to develop new  technologies and services that will support and sustain life, feed the world, and fuel it.  We develop new apps to connect, to inform and to diagnose.  We’ve build a world beyond what our grandparents or parents ever imagined. What we do matters.  More importantly, this next generation will give life to new innovations, some we can only yet imagine.Continue reading