Today’s guest believes that helping people develop meaningful professional relationships is the fastest way to turn promising biomedical research into life-saving cures.

She’s a PhD biologist who trained at Harvard Medical School and had the opportunity to be coached by “super connectors” who taught her how to build human relationships to solve problems.

To make that easier, she developed Curious Reactor, a life science-focused networking tool that helps participants make the most of conferences by creating a personalized match list that is short, targeted, and relevant. That way, participants can spend their time at the conference connecting with warm leads, instead of crossing fingers with cold contacts. By injecting science into human networking Curious Reactor can predict who should meet who.

Please join me in welcoming Jenny Ro.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Good leaders have the mindset of servant leadership. They also have really contagious vision and are able to instill that passion into other people through that vision.”
• that as a child she was an introvert and very much a tomboy catching bugs with her group of friends.
• the difference in her growing up in South Korea.
• the experience of being at a science conference and how it is different than attending any other kind of conference.
• her passion for wanting to help people in science, technology, and innovation engage with others by helping them break the ice to have a meaningful interaction built on a common foundation.
• the genesis story of Curious Reactor and how it evolved from simply connecting people to tech to connecting people to people.
• the process of how people are matched in the innovations ecosystem.
• how the pandemic has affected how she matches people and pivots constantly to ensure her network is supported.
• how she manages and nurtures her network with a dating guru mentality and how to strengthen work relationships.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com – episode 232.