The life sciences industry is on the brink of a groundbreaking transformation, driven by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence.
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If your company works with or for the government, you may be struggling. At the very least you’re probably worried or unsure about what’s to come in the near future
“The goal is to be prepared without being paralyzed by over-planning,” says alliantConsulting managing director Joy Taylor. “Certainty is a CFO’s best friend. Certainty can be accurately modeled, planned for
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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.
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.
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.
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.
alliantDigital Managing Director: Intelligent Automation and Al
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.
alliantConsulting Managing Director: Transformational Leader and Strategic Visionary
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brava! Award,
EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2013 member, and a
2022 Life Sciences Voice Top Industry Leader Award.
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.
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.
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.
