Boston Chapter Workshop at Biogen

From Insight to Impact: Introducing Decision Quality at Every Level

Location: Biogen Office — 225 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA

Date: December 3, 2025 | 6:00 PM ET

Hosted by Biogen for the SDP Boston Chapter

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Driving better decisions across your organization isn’t easy—but it’s essential. How do you explain the value of Decision Quality (DQ) and Decision Analysis/Science (DA/DS) in a way that resonates from the front line to the C-Suite?

Join us for an interactive session where decision professionals from multiple industries share their best “one-pagers”—concise, powerful tools for introducing DA/DS and building buy-in. You’ll walkaway with practical insights, proven approaches, and fresh ideas to create a strong pull for decision-making excellence in your organization.

Agenda

• 6:00 PM Arrival, check-in, and networking
• 6:30–6:40 PM Opening remarks — Mikael Petrosyan and Joe Charest
• 6:40–7:40 PM Workshop: From Insight to Impact — Leslie Lippard and Brendon Keinath
• 7:40–8:00 PM Discussion and holiday happy hour

Meet the Speakers

Brendon Keinath
Principal Project Manager, Electricity Capital Project Delivery - National Grid

Brendon is a DQ practitioner helping deliver reliable and resilient energy at National Grid. Prior to working at National Grid, he helped drive the energy transition at RWE, a global renewable energy developer. He also worked for a decade at ExxonMobil, developing, applying, and building organizational capabilities in DQ. Applications ranged from exploration and appraisal strategy in Guyana, country level strategy across the globe and business line strategies for low carbon solutions. 

Leslie Lippard
Director, Portfolio Strategy & Operations - BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.

Leslie Lippard joins us from BioMarin, where she is Director,  Portfolio Strategy & Operations.  Prior to BioMarin, she led Portfolio Analytics at Alnylam and was part of the Genentech Research and  Early Development Pipeline and Portfolio Planning  Team. She got her start working in the pharma portfolio space while at SDG in the late 1990's, and has consulted at Pfizer, Amgen, Abbott/Abbvie, Genentech, JNJ, and Mallinckrodt Medical. She

founded two successful companies to provide market research services, collecting information used to support portfolio and other decision making, and led respiratory project management at Intermune. She’s  a past President of the Society for Decision Professionals, and a frequent conference speaker.  She has a BS in Physics from Caltech and an MBA from the University of Oregon (Go Ducks!).  Outside of work, you are most likely to find Leslie in the garden or cruising around town on her bike.