About

Mona Kay Rifi

Strategic Collaboration Advisor  

Mona Kay Rifi helps organizations move their most important work forward using her flagship strategy of super-collaboration. With over 25 years in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare industries, she brings a sharp understanding of how influence and credibility shape collaborative outcomes.

Throughout her career, Mona Kay navigated high-stakes collaboration dynamics, and becoming a highly sought-after partner. She’s also served as an Ombuds, bringing an impartial lens to complex issues where strained alignment and communication were holding organizations back.

Both experiencing and observing the need for more effective organizational collaboration, she developed a strategic, practical process for building influence, credibility, and trust across functions, within even the most challenging alliances.

Today, Mona Kay works with professionals across all levels. She helps them earn trust faster, engage more effectively, and become the kind of collaborators that executives want in the room. Clients experience Mona Kay as empathetic, engaging, and passionate while providing practical, real-world solutions.

Mona Kay has shared her insights through interactive workshops, keynote sessions, and roundtable discussions with the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), the Association for Talent Development (ATD), the Pharmaceutical Compliance Forum (PCF), and leading life sciences organizations. She is an active member of the New Jersey State Women’s Chamber of Commerce (NJSWC), and a member and volunteer at the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.