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The Pharma Customer Excellence
Leadership Team MASTERCLASS
Accelerate your starting point by turning customer-centric intent into the enterprise conviction required to move faster, reduce friction, and deliver experiences that differentiate.
Author-led | ½ Day | 1 or 2-Day| Also Available in Keynote and Tailored Formats.
As your Customer Excellence partner, I turn customer-centric ambition into culture, ways of working, and experience delivery systems that become durable sources of commercial impact and enterprise value.
Where Winning at Consumer-Grade Begins.
Winning the next chapter of pharma commercial excellence demands new thinking and new behaviors, led by bold commercial leaders and enabled through an applied learning experience designed to turn intent into enterprise-wide activation.
The Customer Excellence Leadership Masterclass is a focused, team-based working session for senior, cross-functional pharma leaders who recognize that customer-centric intent is no longer the issue. Enterprise conviction and activation are.
Most leadership teams operate under constant delivery pressure, leaving little time to step back, reflect on the changing customer and competitive context, and align on what must truly change. As a result, customer centricity often remains an aspiration rather than a governing principle of how the business actually operates.
This Masterclass creates that space.
Building on Marketing Excellence, Sales Excellence, and Launch Excellence, it introduces Customer Excellence as the fourth, unifying pillar, the connective system that aligns brand, product, and experience into a coherent commercial model. Leaders leave with shared language, clear priorities, and practical mechanisms to bridge theory and activation.
This is where Global Pharma meets the Consumer-Grade Imperative, and where leadership belief becomes enterprise behavior.
Closing the Consumer-Grade Leadership Gap
Pharma's New Consumer-Grade Imperative is not theoretical. It is revealing a leadership blind spot across pharma and life sciences, where customer-centricity and customer experience now represent both an ungoverned risk and an underleveraged source of differentiation, preference, trust, and growth.
Practical Learning, Flexible Formats, Applied to Your Reality
Author-led masterclasses, leadership intensives, and keynotes that adapt Customer Excellence to your organization, market, and moment.
Full Leadership Masterclass
A deep working session focused on decoding real scenarios to catalyze a reset of commercial logic and behaviors. The outcome is a clear Case for Urgency and a practical path forward for embedding experience organically into ways of working.
Full-1 or 2 Days | In-Person
Leadership Activation Intensive
An immersive session for leadership teams to surface systemic barriers, challenge legacy commercial assumptions, and decode the need to activate Customer Excellence within the commercial model, alongside launch, sales, and marketing excellence.
1/2-Day | In-Person/Remote
Customized Session Formats
High-impact keynote or customized presentations adapted to your strategic context. Designed to provoke alignment and establish a common language around Customer Excellence and the Consumer-Grade Imperative without sacrificing rigor or relevance.
60-90 Min. Keynotes | In-Person/Remote
Program Overview
What to Expect in the Masterclass
The commercial dynamics shaping pharma and life sciences have fundamentally changed. Those dynamics can either work against you or become a powerful source of advantage.
As healthcare professionals’ expectations are increasingly shaped by the best experiences they encounter anywhere, the gap between scientific excellence and lived commercial experience is becoming more visible, more consequential, and harder to ignore.
Organizations that fail to address this gap will see value leak quietly through disengagement, erosion of confidence, and rising cost to reacquire trust. Those that close it will earn something far more durable than reach or activity: preference.
This masterclass is designed to help leadership teams see that gap clearly, understand its implications, and mobilize Customer Excellence as a governed enterprise capability rather than an aspirational ideal.
1. The New HCP Customer Context
How have the day-to-day realities, pressures, and decision environments of healthcare professionals changed over the past decade?
Where are we still designing engagement based on how we think HCPs work rather than how they actually practice today?
What signals do HCPs give us, intentionally or unintentionally, about what builds confidence versus what creates friction?
2. The Consumer-Grade Imperative
How do experiences outside of healthcare now shape what HCPs expect, tolerate, or reject when engaging with pharmaceutical companies?
Where do consumer-grade expectations collide with our regulatory, compliance, or legacy operating assumptions?
How do HCPs decide which companies are genuinely helpful versus merely present?
3. The Fourth Pillar: Customer Excellence
If Sales Excellence, Marketing Excellence, and Launch Excellence are now table stakes, where does customer experience actually shape preference, confidence, and momentum over time in ways those disciplines cannot achieve alone?
Where has customer experience been treated as the downstream outcome of good sales execution, strong marketing, or successful launches rather than as a distinct capability that must be intentionally designed, governed, and sustained?
What would fundamentally change in how we plan, measure, and lead commercial performance if Customer Excellence were treated as a fourth pillar alongside sales, marketing, and launch rather than as a supporting activity?
4. The Experience Delivery System
If the Brand Design System defines who we aspire to be and what we promise, where is the equivalent system that ensures those promises are actually delivered through leadership decisions, incentives, and operating models every day?
As the Brand Pyramid evolves from messaging and positioning toward lived experience, where do breakdowns occur between brand intent and brand reality across sales, medical, access, service, and support functions?
Which parts of the customer experience are currently shaped by habit, legacy structure, or functional convenience rather than by intentional design, and what risks does that create for trust, preference, and long-term brand equity?
5. REAL-WORLD CASE: Pharma Field Force Excellence
When Customer Excellence principles guide field engagement, how do interactions change in ways that influence healthcare professional readiness, confidence, and willingness to engage over time rather than just immediate activity outcomes?
What becomes visible when experience quality, such as usefulness, continuity, and ease, is examined alongside traditional field performance metrics like reach, frequency, and sales results?
Where might current definitions of field “success” be masking experience-related risk, erosion of trust, or unrealized long-term value across the prescribing lifecycle?
6. Leading the Customer Excellence Rebellion
Module 6: Leading the Rebellion — From Transformation to Enterprise DNA
Which deeply embedded assumptions about growth, efficiency, and commercial success must be challenged in order to move from surface-level transformation to true Customer Excellence embedded in how the organization actually operates?
What distinguishes disciplined rebellion, where leaders intentionally redesign structures, incentives, and decision rights, from change theater that modernizes language but leaves underlying behaviors untouched?
Where does leadership conviction about Customer Excellence show up in governed choices, resource allocation, and operating models, and where does it remain an aspiration that is not yet wired into the enterprise?
7. Documenting the Case for Urgency
What early signals of declining trust, relevance, or experience quality are currently hidden beneath strong topline performance and activity metrics?
Where is friction, inconsistency, or indifference already eroding confidence among healthcare professionals in ways that are felt emotionally but not yet escalated structurally?
How much customer value is already at risk through disengagement, delayed adoption, or avoidable reacquisition costs, and at what point does continued inaction become a fiduciary failure rather than a strategic choice?
Masterclass Participants Leave with Strategic Assets That Catalyze Enterprise Activation.
Each participant receives a copy of The Customer Excellence Enterprise and the first working version of the Case for Urgency Grid, a concrete, organization-specific catalyst for alignment and enterprise-wide activation.
Learning Outcomes
What Leaders Will See, Believe, and Do Differently
The program moves beyond diagnosis to activation. Leaders are introduced to the concept of systemic predisposition and learn how enterprise systems shape behavior regardless of intent. They examine how leadership choices create conditions that either make customer-centric outcomes inevitable or make them nearly impossible. This lens enables leaders to identify where change must occur first and what must be redesigned to sustain progress.
Elevate Customer Consciousness.
Leaders will see customers as whole humans navigating complex professional and personal contexts, not as segments, targets, or channels, and will understand how this perspective reshapes priorities, decisions, and tradeoffs.
Discern Brand as a Delivery System.
Leaders will internalize that brand is not what the organization says, but what it consistently enables, tolerates, and delivers, and that leadership behavior is the primary mechanism through which brand promise is either honored or broken.
Adopt The Customer’s Right to Reverence.
Leaders will adopt the Customer’s Right to Reverence as a governing standard, using dignity, clarity, and respect as non-negotiable design inputs for decisions, policies, and experiences.
Decode Systemic Predisposition.
Leaders will understand how culture, incentives, governance, and operating models predispose the organization toward either customer-centric or company-centric outcomes, often independent of individual intent.
Evolve From Initiatives to Systems.
Leaders will shift from viewing Customer Excellence as a set of initiatives to seeing it as an enterprise operating system that must be deliberately designed, governed, and reinforced.
Move Beyond Transformation.
Understand the structural drivers of change and the ten strategic shifts that define the new commercial model, leaving with a blueprint to design and execute your organization’s Customer Excellence Rebellion.
The Learn. Share. Do. Approach.
Designed to Build Momentum, Not Just Understanding.
This Masterclass follows the Learn. Share. Do. Approach because leadership transformation does not come from passive consumption. Leaders are challenged to see differently, to share perspective and tension across functions, and to translate belief into action. The structure ensures insight becomes ownership and ownership becomes movement, not intent deferred.
LEARN.
Build the Foundation.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of Customer Excellence as a system to enable a seamless connection between brand promise and delivery in complex organizations.
SHARE.
Surface Reality.
Exchange perspectives and real-world experiences with peers, surfacing common challenges, constraints, and practical insights across functions and markets.
DO.
Create Urgency.
Create a clear case for urgency by applying the learning through scenarios, diagnostics, and action planning that define what must change now.
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