LSA Global Delivers Art & Science Prioritization Workshop for High Growth Biotech Firm

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Prioritization Workshop for Biotech employees experiencing high growth and organizational change.

• 96% Job Relevance
• 100% Satisfaction
• 124% Knowledge Gain
• 98.2% Net Promoter Score

Biotech organizations live in a constant state of trade-offs. Capital is finite. Talent is scarce. Scientific uncertainty is unavoidable. Yet the pressure to advance multiple programs, platforms, and partnerships simultaneously never lets up. For this client, prioritization needed to be a core leadership capability. A well-designed prioritization workshop helps biotech leadership teams move beyond opinion-driven debates and toward disciplined, evidence-based decisions that align science, strategy, and execution.

Why Prioritization Breaks Down in Biotech
Biotech prioritization fails for predictable reasons. Scientific passion often outweighs commercial logic. Legacy projects linger long after their strategic relevance fades. Functional leaders advocate for their own programs without a shared enterprise lens. Most damaging, teams confuse activity with progress, spreading resources thinly across too many “important” initiatives.

Research on decision-making under uncertainty by Kahneman & Tversky shows that organizations consistently overestimate upside while underestimating risk and execution complexity. In biotech, this bias is amplified by optimism rooted in early scientific signals that may not translate clinically or commercially. Without a structured forum to challenge assumptions, prioritization becomes tactical and political rather than strategic.

Prioritization Workshop for Biotech Employees

This fast growing Biotech client needed employees to understand that not all work is equally important and to prioritize and make decisions accordingly. The Prioritization Workshop for Biotech employees helped individual contributors to better manage their workload when everything feels like a top priority.

The highly customized action learning program was focused on helping individual contributors to take control of their own productivity to achieve higher performance. That meant better optimizing energy, time, and margin to do their best work on time and with a level of excellence that exceeds expectations. They explored four key areas related to the art and science or prioritization:

• Tracking Goals & Accountabilities
  Employ proven techniques to track commitments so everything is cataloged
• Assessing Priorities
  Assess the impact and ease of each promise so that work can be appropriately prioritized and staged
• Setting Expectations
  Effectively align and establish realistic agreements with key stakeholders
• Managing Expectations
  Mitigate missed expectations by proactively managing expectations and experiences

Effective prioritizing increases the success rates of projects, improves the alignment of teams, and boosts engagement.

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.