Alignment Cubed supports busy biotech CEOs, providing an accelerated pathway to organisational alignment as their company scales and becomes more complex, and priorities conflict.
Founded by industry executives, Jonathan Pearce and Majid Islam, we leverage decades worth of experience working in top-tier roles within the biotech and life science sectors, to help our clients navigate the complexity of leading an organisation in a constantly evolving world.
Traditional business strategies built around stability and predictability are not always effective. The biotech sector faces an array of challenges, and visionary leaders often find their time and resources strained by complex organisational issues that don’t go away, despite all the time, effort, and resources they’re applying to them.
The reality is that to position for success, businesses need to align three fundamentals of a healthy organisation: cohesive leadership, organisational clarity and execution architecture. By helping business leaders address systemic issues over short-term fixes, we establish clear foundations and a strategic approach to simplify decision-making for the long-term.
With our unique approach, problems get tackled exponentially faster than imagined, and the team becomes more engaged and competent. In fact, there’s an increased level of capability and a reduced dependency in all directions, making a measured transformational difference.
Our tailored services include organisational alignment assessment, team cohesion work incorporating the Fearless Organisation scan, conversational-based executive workdays, strategy execution and operational enablement and personalised support for leaders.
Working as a partner to the leadership team, we employ a holistic, three-phase approach to systemic change, focusing on leadership, clarity, and execution.
Develop self-awareness, situational awareness, and psychological safety needed to build cohesive teams.
Establish clear foundations and a strategic approach to simplify decision-making.
Align your business architecture (people, processes, practices) to streamline execution.
We enable open conversations and get to the root of issues quickly and efficiently. As biotech leaders, we use the best frameworks that we know work in practice from our own experience – we bring you the best tools, ideas and insights available. And to top it all, we bring our experience and intuition and apply it to help you to accelerate impact and progress.
We focus on building a healthy and aligned organisation, from top to bottom, where everyone is engaged and clear about the value the organisation offers and how they contribute to delivering that value.
We have worked across the biotech and life science sector in GMP and non-GMP facilities, ascending from hands-on roles to executive leadership roles in highly reputable companies. This extensive grounding gives us empathy and credibility as well as a deep industry knowledge.
Unlike others who focus on regulatory and technical issues, we have a unique focus on alignment, and our holistic approach attracts clients looking for comprehensive transformation.
Our approach is visionary, practical and empowering. We’ve inspired teams, clarified company identities, and created environments where employees feel valued.
We stay abreast of new thinking, models, frameworks and concepts that are relevant to strategy, organisational health, culture, leadership, clarity, execution and alignment. And our ability to translate them into easily digestible forms and introduce them situationally provides a generative, value-added learning experience for our clients.
We aspire to make all our services friendly, simple, and profound.
A biotech leader with nearly two decades of experience transforming start-ups and established ISO/GMP facilities across the innovative biotechnology/synthetic biology sector.
Majid has been the driving force behind several significant turnarounds and has a proven track record of building cohesive teams, fostering proactive cultures and preparing businesses for successful future outcomes. His trademark approach is visionary, practical and empowering, creating productive environments which motivate colleagues at every level.
Majid’s previous roles include Operational Site Director at gene editing company, Horizon Discovery; interim COO/ Head of Operations at biotech firm, bit.bio; and Head of Operations at emergent start-up, DefiniGEN.
With over 25 years’ experience working primarily in the life science sector, Jonathan has a proven senior leadership track record of building cultures of high-performance and excellence across service and operations.
Jonathan’s strengths and passion lie in enabling organisations to improve their cohesion and effectiveness by deciphering, clarifying and aligning on what matters to achieve success.
Jonathan’s international experience spans Europe, Asia, and USA. He spent two decades working at life science and biotech company, Sigma Aldrich (Merck KGaA), where he held various top-tier roles including Head of Customer Excellence, Western Europe; Director, Process Improvements, EMEA; and Director of Operations. Most recently, Jonathan was Director of Operational Excellence at Revvity (formerly Horizon Discovery).
“Both Jonathan and Majid are experienced, credible and sincere, and able to work with multiple personal styles. Their approach to strategic ‘expression’ is sound and collaborative. I also found the facilitated World Café technique useful to generate broader thinking and ownership across all levels of the company.”
“I don’t usually have time for ‘consultants’ – but I really like you guys. So, what does that tell you? We are now further on than we would ever have been without you. Can you come and fix it all for us? I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending you.”
“…providing deep insights into business models, company culture and general leadership in the context of real time problems we were facing… identified critical gaps and worked hard to strategically align leadership and staff on the big picture questions. This gave us the focus and empowerment we needed to deal with higher level decision-making and prioritisation.”
“Jonathan and Majid were extremely helpful in facilitating contributions from the whole team, in a safe environment, and through a dynamic and different process. This has really helped shape the mindset of the team and developed a strong sense of ownership amongst team members, fostering an assurance that they are integral to the success of our company during this crucial phase of its development.”
“In terms of value, I’d be happy to pay you three times as much as you charged. I wish we’d had brought you in two years earlier before I recruited the team.”
“…a rare combination of experience, knowledge, and open-mindedness with a deep understanding of the business, its clients’ needs, market risks, and how to provide the best advice and strategy for the company’s success.”
“You came at the right time, and your process held our team together. We are more aligned than we’ve ever been.”
“…an exceptional quality of active listening (and) insightful feedback… a good example of transformational leadership and I felt amazed at the ability to direct a room and get people on board – even people who were initially on a completely different page.”
“This dynamic process delivered a genuine outcome for us which continues to be relevant to everyone in the company every day and is not just reserved for senior managers or owners.”
“…visionary yet practical leadership… authentic and humble approach created an environment where we felt we could be more open about the challenges we faced on the ground… focus on empowering employees resulted in a team that was more engaged, more committed, and more productive.”
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