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Kayva

Clinical Business Development Manager

InteliWound

Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University
W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU - MS in Business Management

Kayva Jha is a dynamic healthcare professional with over seven years of clinical experience and three years of business development, strategy, sales operation, and product/marketing management across the biotechnology, medical, and pharmaceutical industries. Kayva is passionate about bridging the gaps in a patient’s journey and was inspired to found a pro-bono clinical coordination and advocacy non-profit by the name of Someone Who Cares. SWC manages patient cases by streamlining multi-disciplinary patient care, reduces healthcare expenditures, and advocates for timely, equitable, compassionate healthcare. We want patients to know that no matter how bleak healthcare can seem, you can always find Someone Who Cares.
ASU W.P. Carey School of Business

ASU W.P. Carey School of Business

Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
Healthcare, Medical & Wellness
Business Strategy
Medical, Sciences & Related
Biology & Related Sciences
Disabled

Q1Career path

Career Pivot

Biomedical Science

Business Management

3:11

"You can put all your work in sometimes and, and testing doesn't always speak to who that person is."

Q2Main responsibilities

Patient Care

Healthcare

Business Development

2:25

"My whole reason for being and for wanting to work was to improve patient journeys."

Q3Day in the life

Healthcare

Relationship Building

Networking

2:57

"As long as you are in their face, they're always gonna remember you and they'll keep coming back to your, for you for business."

Q4Most important skills - role

Patient Care

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

4:41

"My skill is really remembering what people need and that I won't rest until they get it. And so if I can work on that skill, and if I can be in a job where that is the core of my performance, I know I'll do really well."

Q5Favorite parts - role

Healthcare Solutions

Patient Care

Empathy

2:54

"When you're asking for us today and you need something, we're gonna make it happen."

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Healthcare Industry

Market Differentiation

Business Development

2:33

"We're coming out to really help the whole patient, not just the hole in the patient."

Q7Favorite parts - industry

Patient Care

Clinical Knowledge

Healthcare Administration

2:18

"When you are in that business of healthcare standpoint, it really is up to you to change what the face of healthcare is gonna look like for somebody."

Q8Who thrives in industry

Networking

Empathy

Patient Care

3:15

"I need to be in an industry where I have to, you know, where the impact is large because the energy I want to put in is large."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Impact

Medical Sales

Networking

3:15

"Networking, networking, networking is the key. And you're not networking if you're not connecting."

Q10Entry-level positions

Medical Sales

Networking

Relationship Management

2:05

"From those roles, you will definitely start to develop the skills like networking...relationship management...and also tech."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Interpersonal Skills

Workplace Challenges

Career Development

3:56

"In early career, sit back and listen a lot more and observe."

Q12College ideas for success

Networking

Opportunity Discovery

Career Fairs

1:18

"Most of my friends and myself included, we all got our first jobs from going to the career fair and finding our job there."

Q13How identity impacted career

Patient Care

ADHD and Career

Strengths-Based Approach

1:59

"When I found out that my natural ability is to always remember when somebody else needs something... I always remember what another person needs to do"

Q14Most impactful experience at W.P. Carey

Networking

Consulting

Mentorship

2:01

"If I hadn't done this, I wouldn't have known where I wanted to go next with my master's..."