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Breaking Barriers or Building Bias? The Controversial Debate on Diversity in Clinical Trials

In January 2025, the FDA quietly removed its draft guidance on diversity inclusion in clinical trials from its website, marking a significant shift in the regulatory landscape. This guidance, originally published in June 2024, outlined recommendations for pharmaceutical companies to enhance enrollment of underrepresented racial and ethnic populations in clinical trials. The document served as […]

How Business Owners Are Bracing Themselves for Trump’s Trade War

Tariffs are no longer a threat but a reality. Some business owners are stocking up on supplies to protect their bottom lines.  President Trump’s trade war is a sequel that not many company owners have willingly signed up for, but has managed to find a captive audience nonetheless. Much of that audience is American entrepreneurs, […]

Implemented AI Recently? Look to Your ERP System to Lessen Unpredictability.

Joy Taylor, the Managing Director of alliantConsulting, shares some guidance on how an ERP can help companies lessen the unpredictability involved in recently implemented AI systems. This article originally appeared in Insight Jam, an enterprise IT community that enables human conversation on AI. Implementing AI into your company has almost become a given (if not a necessity) at […]

Rewriting the Rules of Change Management: A Provocative Guide for Modern Leaders

Recently, during a crucial digital transformation project at a Fortune 500 company, a junior team member asked me something that stopped me in my tracks: “If most change initiatives fail anyway, why do we try so hard?” It was a moment of clarity that crystallized everything wrong with our current approach to change management. Throughout […]

How FDA’s New Rule on LDTs Impacts Medical Device Companies and Labs

On May 6, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule that significantly modified its approach to overseeing laboratory developed tests (LDTs). This rule, which became effective on July 5, 2024, marks a pivotal change for companies producing LDTs. The new regulations aim to ensure that these tests meet the same […]

alliantConsulting weighs in on the hottest new HR hire ‘RTO officers’

New York City has a ‘rat czar.’ But workplaces may need an ‘RTO czar’ to facilitate the transition to full-time, in-person work. Riddle me this: What can’t corporate America quit? Answer: The return-to-office debate. While the RTO conservation has evolved since 2020, next year, HR leaders will continue to bring employees back to the office four, or […]

Why Firing Gen Z Is a ‘Huge Mistake,’ According to Business Expert

While Gen Z might have a stigma against them in the workplace and employers are already firing them in droves, business experts are warning companies not to let go of their younger employees just yet. A new report from Intelligent.com revealed one in six businesses were hesitant to hire recent college graduates over concerns about their preparedness for work, communication skills […]

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Amy Flynn

Managing Director

Amy is the Life Sciences Industry Lead and a Managing Director of alliantConsulting. She has driven global change initiatives for life science companies across Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Supply Chain, and Medical Affairs and has supported clients with all aspects of Integration and Separation planning and execution.

She is energized by helping companies deliver on their most important strategies and passionate about developing the business acumen and capabilities of her client’s teams. Specializing in large scale transformation, Amy combines a strategic mindset with hands on execution and attention to detail to help clients realize and sustain the intended value of their efforts.

History of Proven Success

Amy has driven transformational change initiatives for life science companies across Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Supply Chain, and Medical Affairs and has supported clients with all aspects of Integration and Separation planning and execution. She is energized by helping companies deliver on their most important strategies while expanding the experience and capabilities of her client’s teams.

Amy has directed major transformation projects for:

Chris Unruh

Managing Director of ERP and Business Applications

Chris Unruh brings over 25 years of experience in technology transformation and consulting to his role as Managing Director of ERP and Business Applications at alliant. His extensive background in leadership development, talent management, and business strategy enables him to drive results-oriented solutions. Chris’s expertise spans operational transformation, practice development, market-making, and technology program management. With leadership roles at Grant Thornton and MarketSphere Consulting, as well as experience as an independent executive advisor, Chris employs a business-first approach. By leveraging technology as a key enabler, he consistently delivers tangible results for clients across various industries.

History of Proven Success

A serial entrepreneur, Chris founded a successful management consulting practice that was later acquired by Grant Thornton. As the Managing Principal of Product Automation at Grant Thornton, Chris helped develop over 200 internal and client-facing automation products and was recognized for his ability to lead integrations, acquisitions, and technological implementations.

Chris has directed major transformation projects for:

Chris Stephenson

alliantDigital Managing Director: Intelligent Automation and Al

Chris Stephenson is the Managing Director of Intelligent Automation, Al & Digital Services at alliantDigital. Chris has a 25 year history in tech consulting and developing emerging technology solutions for nearly every sector. As a leader in the Al space, Chris has already delivered on multiple internal and client-facing Al products.

History of Proven Success

A serial entrepreneur, Chris founded a successful management consulting practice that was later acquired by Grant Thornton. As the Managing Principal of Product Automation at Grant Thornton, Chris helped develop over 200 internal and client-facing automation products and was recognized for his ability to lead integrations, acquisitions, and technological implementations.

Chris has directed major transformation projects for:

Sondra Leibner

alliantConsulting Managing Director: Transformational Leader and Strategic Visionary

Sondra is an executive level consultant who doesn’t just support leaders but revolutionizes their strategy development, leadership alignment, change management, culture design, and talent development. When you meet Sondra, you will feel the depth of her experience and her understanding that your challenges, culture and circumstances are unique. She will bring flexible, creative and pragmatic approaches to create truly customized and workable solutions. Sondra’s ability to communicate complex messages in simple and memorable ways enhances her ability to achieve unprecedented levels of engagement and adoption. When you begin working together you will be excited about your next meeting.

History of Proven Success

Sondra offers comprehensive services to help business leaders maximize stakeholder value and drive organizational success. She works with teams to craft visions, align leadership, manage changes, and build effective cultures that foster growth and innovation. By focusing on key areas such as communication, collaboration, clarity, and accountability, Sondra helps organizations improve profitability, increase engagement, and realize long-term value.

Leadership Alignment

Leadership teams that are aligned are able to drive business success more effectively. Communication, collaboration, clarity and accountability are the foundations for successful leadership teams. Sondra works to align teams behind your desired destination with the objective of increased engagement, buy in, visible support and clarity of goals to drive success and value realization.

Change Management

It is possible to engage large groups of people and motivate them to do things differently and decrease disruption when thoughtful change management practices are deployed. Change Management requires clarity of purpose, leadership alignment, sponsor leadership, engagement, simple and targeted messaging, crisis and risk management and many others. Sondra will work to develop and execute a scalable approach to manage the people side of change through assessing impacts, readiness and educational needs of stakeholders.

Culture Design

The success or failure of an organization is driven by leadership and culture. Actively taking steps toward building your culture means focusing on the alignment of your leadership, values and behaviors. Sondra will assess current state behaviors, beliefs, norms and structures of your organization to identify similarities and differences inherent in the culture and subcultures and together we will create a roadmap to increase engagement to realize the intended culture.

Talent Development

Customized talent strategies that resonate with your vision, values, and culture are Sondra’s forte, empowering your team to excel and drive the company’s strategic objectives.

Sondra has directed major transformation projects for:

Joy Taylor

alliantConsulting Managing Director:
A Visionary Leader and Proven Change Management Expert

Joy Taylor isn’t just a consultant; she’s a force of nature in the world of business transformation. With over twenty-five years of cross-functional experience, Joy applied her expertise in program transformations, project leadership, strategy and execution, team facilitation, change management, communication, and Lean Sigma to everything from startups to multibillion-dollar enterprises. Her impressive track record speaks volumes, but her accolades and career milestones set her apart as a critical advisor for CEOs.

Award-Winning Leadership and Proven Success

As National Managing Principal at Grant Thornton, Joy demonstrated her unparalleled ability to steer complex, global programs and initiatives. Her tenure as CEO of a $60 million business underscores her credibility and reliability as a peer for other CEOs seeking strategic guidance and impactful change management.

Joy’s career is also studded with achievements including:

Brava! Award,

EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2013 member, and a

2022 Life Sciences Voice Top Industry Leader Award.

Award-Winning Leadership and Proven Success

Joy's career is studded with achievements including a Brava! Award, EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2013 member, and a 2022 Life Sciences Voice Top Industry Leader Award. As National Managing Principal at Grant Thornton, she demonstrated her unparalleled ability to steer complex, global programs and initiatives. Her tenure as CEO of a $60 million business underscores her credibility and reliability as a peer for other CEOs seeking strategic guidance and impactful change management.

Master of Complex Transformations

Joy's unique talent lies in her ability to manage intricate, large-scale programs that span continents and cultures. She has a proven ability to manage complex, global programs and initiatives, drive process and productivity improvement efforts and lead change in a fast-paced environment.

A Visionary with Tactical Precision

Joy is not just a big thinker; she's a visionary who can translate high-level strategies into actionable goals that people are eager to achieve. Her ability to collaborate with leaders to shape vision and strategy is matched by her meticulous attention to the necessary steps and tactics required to bring those visions to life. She aligns people, process and technology to deliver results that are truly exceptional.

Joy has directed major transformation projects for: