Training Your Team Will Actually Remember

Interactive, high-energy, story-driven training for the pharma/biotech space: clinical supply chain, process improvement, quality, leadership, and more. What separates us is the storytelling - people remember stories, not slides.

The problem: your team is smart. But clinical supplies is a field nobody majors in - people land here from pharmacy, logistics, and luck, and then learn by fire. Turnover means the knowledge walks out the door; onboarding on commercial-built systems takes the better part of a year; and generic corporate training bounces right off.

The GBS approach: Steve has been training this industry for nearly three decades - 28 of his 31 years in clinical supplies have involved teaching it. Every course is interactive and high-energy: real stories from real world experiences, exercises that make people argue, laugh, and remember. No read-along slide decks. Ever.

What we offer: the Clinical Supplies Foundations (Basics) Course — a 3-day, 15-module foundation for those new to clinical supplies, or figuring out where they fit (run twice a year since 2011, publicly and in-house); the Clinical Supplies Advanced (Frameworks) Course — "Frameworks for the Experienced Professional," 2.5 days on-demand for professionals with 2 or more years' experience; Technical & Leadership Training (GDP, QbD, human-error prevention, contamination control, inspection & audit readiness, documentation success); Coaching & Mentoring; and GBS University — a complete bespoke internal training academy fine-tuned to your needs.

Event Card — CRISP San Francisco

CRISP San Francisco 10/1/26

Come for the training. Stay for the networking. Join our 3-day, 15-module foundation for those new to clinical supplies or figuring out where they fit. Stay for the all-day networking event on 10/1/2026.

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Event Card — NECSO Waltham-Boston

NECSO Boston 10/29/26

Come for the training. Stay for the networking. Join our 2.5-day Technical & Leadership Training course for professionals with 2+ years of experience. Stay for the all-day networking event on 10/29/2026.

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Coaching, Mentoring & Leadership

Personal and leadership development that sticks: emotional intelligence, leadership vs. management, crucial conversations, executive presence, presentation skills, building and retaining top talent, and leading multigenerational teams. Plus one-on-one coaching for supply chain leaders and executives, and mentoring programs that keep your rising stars from becoming somebody else's.

GBS University - Your Own Academy

For organizations that need more than a course: we design and build a complete internal training university - curriculum, materials, train-the-trainer - tuned to your processes and quality goals. We built one for a clinical packaging CMO; their people now train each other. Proof our training sticks: 43 brand-new clinical supplies hires trained at a top-10 pharma's European facility - a room so engaged they threw Steve a going-away party.

Clinical Supplies Foundations (Basics) Course

The industry-standard 3-day, 15-module foundation: GMP history, drug development phases, blinding & randomization, labeling & packaging, distribution, returns, outsourcing, new technologies, GCPs and more. Run twice a year since 2011, publicly and in-house. Plus Advanced Topics in Clinical Trial Materials - 9 modules for experienced teams - and technical training in GDP, QbD, human-error prevention, contamination control, inspection & audit readiness, and documentation success.

Clinical Supplies Frameworks (Advanced) Course

"Frameworks for the Experienced Professional." For clinical supplies professionals with 2+ years' experience — a deeper, broader knowledge framework of clinical supply chain operations and challenges, to successfully plan and forecast for global clinical studies.

 

Format: 2.5 days, on-demand for your team. 

REGISTER for a Course at CRISP or NECSO

 Foundations (Basics) Course — 3 days — $1,500, and your day-long CRISP or NECSO event seat is included, free. · Frameworks (Advanced) Course — 2.5 days, on-demand — $1,500, event seat included, free. · Event-only seat (CRISP or NECSO) — $375. Take a course before a forum and your event seat is included — free.