QuidelOrtho Corporation

Today, I am joined by a wonderful guest and friend, Phyllis Sarkaria, and returning guest on the podcast, I might add.

Phyllis is a certified executive coach, facilitator, and trusted advisor with over 30 years of corporate leadership experience, including serving as head of HR and internal coach to C-suite executives at Quidel Corporation.

Through her firm, The Sarkaria Group, Phyllis helps leaders tackle one of the most consequential, yet least examined gaps in business: the space between how leaders see themselves and how they are actually experienced by others.

I'm so intrigued on this topic.

You know, it's not bad to sit back and sip a little coffee and talk about what I live and breathe every day, so I appreciate that.

My background, uh, just a quick background on my 30 years in healthcare, 20 plus years in just the actual rapid diagnostic point-of-care testing space, a majority of that with a company called Quidel, which is now Quidel Ortho, but Quidel Corporation, where I just basically got into learning the market, learning the players, the distributors, manufacturers, and got some commercial leadership experience under my belt, and that was about 12 years.

Then for folks, you know, who are listening to this and understand the startup side, when you get that startup bug and you want a little skin in the game and you wanna increase the frenzy-ness of your professional life, well, then you, you jump.

And so I went into a startup, uh, back in 2012, and at that time it was called RPS Diagnostics.

So a 13-year journey around that product.

We, with RPS Diagnostics, commercialized rapid point-of-care testing in the eye space, so we were calling on an ophthalmologist and optometrists.

Long story short, sold those two assets serendipitously back to Quidel Corporation, what became Quidel Eye Health.

Found everybody a home, and then, uh, did another brief stint there.