Mona Kay Rifi helps professionals and organizations move their most important work forward using her flagship (Pre)Collaboration© process. With over 25 years in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare industries, she understands the power of trust-based relationships that drive productive collaboration, and empower career advancement.

Throughout her career, Mona Kay navigated business relationships at all levels, and became a highly sought-after partner. She’s served as an Ombuds, coaching professionals through strained relationships, and also as a compliance business partner, where she used her partnership-building skills to advise both Commercial and Medical Affairs partners of all levels, often managing difficult conversations.

Both experiencing and observing the need to form and nurture more effective business relationships, she developed a straightforward 5-step process for building trust and advocacy, across functions, with even the most challenging alliances.

Today, Mona Kay works with professionals across all levels. She helps them earn trust faster, engage more effectively, and become the kind of business partners that executives notice and want on their teams. Clients experience Mona Kay as empathetic, engaging, and passionate while providing practical, real-world solutions.

Mona Kay has shared her insights through interactive workshops, speaking sessions, and roundtable discussions with the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), the Association for Talent Development (ATD), the Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum (PCF), and leading pharmaceutical/biotechnology organizations as an in-house employee. She is an active member and volunteer of the New Jersey State Women’s Chamber of Commerce (NJSWC), and a member and volunteer at the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.

If your organization relies on collaboration, Mona Kay provides the process to increase productivity and earn respect, while minimizing delays, cost, and reputational damage.