Activating Strategic Impact for R&D Team

Redwood Shores, CA — LSA Global, a leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast-growth life sciences, technology, and services companies align culture and talent with strategy, announced strong results from a customized Activating Strategic Impact workshop for a Biotech R&D Leadership Team.

The Activating Strategic Impact workshop results included:

• 98.5% Job Relevance
• 99% Satisfaction
• 121% Knowledge Gain
• 87.2% Net Promoter Score

Strategically, this global biotech leader is aiming to increase new product launches by 10x over the next 10 years by:

• Shifting to a more diversified portfolio.
• Making strategic acquisitions.
• Prioritizing R&D.
• Expanding into new indications.
• Advancing high-potential pipeline assets.

In order to set R&D up for success, the objective of the Activating Strategic Impact workshop was to co-create the team’s:

• Purpose and direction.
• Stakeholder commitments.
• Strategic priorities.
• Strategy success metrics.
• Team roles and responsibilities.
• Individual goals and accountabilities.

The highly customized training program used the following action learning leadership development approach:

• Welcome & Frame the Day
  Revisit strategic intent, define working agreements, and set the stage for the day.
• Define Team Purpose
  Co-create who we are, why we exist, and what we uniquely contribute.  High-performing teams do not rely on generic mission statements; they articulate a clear, shared reason for existence that inspires clarity, focus, and commitment.
• Build a Stakeholder Map
  Define who depends on us, what they need, and how we performing in their eyes. Strategic impact requires moving beyond “managing” stakeholders to actively engaging them in shared outcomes.
• Finalize Line of Sight
  Update how our work connects to what matters most right now.  Teams often operate in silos, disconnected from enterprise strategy.  When this alignment is visible and reinforced, execution accelerates.
• Design Strategic Stretch
  Agree upon what would it look like if we played at the top of our potential.  This mindset unlocks innovation by shifting focus from incremental improvement to meaningful advancement.
• Calculate Capacity & Prioritization
  Understand where is our energy going — and what we need to protect.  Strategic impact requires disciplined prioritization. Many teams fall into the “autopilot trap,” where urgent work crowds out strategic work.  This shift from time management to time design is subtle but transformative — it moves teams from reactive execution to proactive decision making and impact.
• Make Commitments
  Synthesis decisions, codify individual and team commitments, and design a cadence of accountability.  Strategic impact is not accidental — it is engineered through clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution.

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a trusted performance consulting and training firm that helps high-growth technology, services, and life sciences companies turn strategy into measurable results. We partner with executive teams to build competitive advantage by aligning culture and talent with strategy — so individuals, teams, and organizations perform at their peak. Learn more about how organizational alignment drives performance.

by Tristam Brown: CEO

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.