TOPX EXPERT meeting

Online Session - Elevating Cross-functional Collaboration

4 December 2025 | Online | 13:30 - 14:30

In biotech, breakthroughs rarely happen in isolation. Whether you're partnering across labs, bridging commercial and clinical teams, or co-creating with external collaborators, your ability to collaborate across boundaries is what drives real innovation.

We’ll dive into the human and strategic side of collaboration, with practical tools and real-world biotech examples. Expect reflection, interaction, and a few fresh perspectives.

Five Collaboration Boosters

Shared Purpose: Aligning around a compelling “why” that transcends silos.
Role & Strengths Clarity: Knowing who owns what — and what talents and strengths are available to use.
Psychological Safety: Creating space for challenge, curiosity, and candor.
Rhythm & Rituals: Designing meetings and touchpoints that energize, not exhaust.
Feedback Fluency: Giving and receiving input that sharpens, not shames.

Three Common Traps to Avoid

Collaboration Overload: Saying yes to every sync, losing time for deep work.
Assumed assumptions: Mistaking politeness for clarity or agreement.
Lack of way-of-working alignment.

Join us for a dynamic, hands-on workshop designed to elevate your cross-functional collaboration skills — and energize your impact.

Register now to be a part of this exciting session. Participation is free of charge for TOPX members. Not a member yet? Subscribe for a TOPX Membership here.

Frans van Loef | Strategy Execution Coaching & Founder, FreeCapacity

Frans is a leadership coach, expert in unlocking human capacity and growth of teams and career growth of individual team members. As former CEO of companies owned by private equity firms, he has a passion for helping people reach their maximum potential. He is known for helping individuals tap into their latent abilities and talents, enabling them to achieve more than they ever thought possible at this stage. Through his years of experience and relentless commitment to personal and professional growth, Frans has developed a profound understanding of the human potential, which he leverages to empower his clients. Increasing influence, focus by making choices, effective stakeholder management and keeping a ‘doable’ workload, are some of the key elements.

His main focus are international clients in the Pharma, Biotech, Medical devices, IT and Energy, all knowledge intense organizations. Among his current clients are MSD, Organon and Alnylam.

He is author of two management books and his new book “Offload” will be published as of Q4 2025. Most organizations fall into the trap of continuing adding new initiatives, tools, structural adjustments and needless complexity without considering the impact on their teams. This book will show you how to reduce the workload for yourself and your team.

His latest articles have been published in Harvard Business Review and Chief Learning Officer in the US.

Are you ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery, professional advancement and increasing impact? Connect with Frans https://www.linkedin.com/in/freecapacity and read new insights and articles in the coming months.