Leen Kawas: How to Turn Team Disagreements Into Scientific Breakthroughs
- chance51029
- Aug 7, 2025
- 1 min read

In the high-stakes world of biotechnology, where breakthrough discoveries can take decades and billions of dollars to develop, the instinct is often to avoid conflict at all costs. Teams focus on consensus-building, stakeholder alignment, and smooth operations. But this approach may be fundamentally flawed when it comes to driving innovation.
Leen Kawas, Managing General Partner at Propel Bio Partners, has built her career on a different philosophy. Her approach to building effective teams suggests that productive conflict, when properly managed within psychologically safe environments, becomes a powerful catalyst for scientific innovation.



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