Leading the Charge

Imagine being a freshman at college on a basketball scholarship. You know this scholarship is your ticket out of your small mining town and on to a brighter future. Now imagine being told that you might lose your foot due to a misdiagnosis of an ankle injury.That is exactly what happened to Frank Washenitz, now VP, Head of Global and NA Sales Enhancement at Mylan. Luckily for Frank, he did not lose that ankle. The experience, however, left him sensitive to the fragility of health, the need for improvement in medicine and a desire to make a difference.“Looking back, I never really had a plan to be in pharma training, but it all makes sense, " says Frank. " My background is in athletics and coaching. Everything I ’ve done comes back to building teams centered on a common purpose, teaching, leading and developing others.”He comes by it naturally. Born and raised in a small coal town in West Virginia he worked for his father, two uncles and grandfather at a young age in their family business. It was do or die, innovate or starve. It took the entire family to make it work. The values were instilled in him that if you want something, you have to work for it. His first cousin is the Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton, so perseverance was modeled everywhere he turned.“Leadership came from my father and one of my close relatives who was the all-time winningest coach in basketball,” he says. “My dad coached me from a very young age all the way through middle school. I still lo...
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