ABOUT DAWN
30 years. One through-line: heart and head belong together.
Dawn Halkuff has spent her career at the intersection of business and health. At Pfizer, she rose to senior vice president and led the company's $1B+ women's health franchise. As Chief Commercial Officer of TherapeuticsMD, she brought new women's health therapies to market. As CEO of Ideal Protein, she led the company through difficult times and a successful sale. Earlier, as VP of Global Innovation at Weight Watchers, she helped reimagine one of the world's best-known wellness brands.
Today Dawn leads a women's health company as CEO, serves on the boards of Xeris Biopharma (NASDAQ: XERS) and Calibrate Health, and coaches and advises senior leaders through Halkuff Enterprises.
Along the way she learned — often the hard way — that the leaders who change things don't choose between being tough and being human. Those lessons became her book, Becoming Unlikable, and the Heart-Head Leadership Model at the center of
everything she teaches.
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Dawn lives between South Florida and Connecticut — though her heart is still in Manhattan, where she spent two decades. She shares her home with her fiancée and their two perfect, noisy pups.
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