SMART Pharmaceutical Consulting drives biopharma innovation with high-performance solutions

SMART Pharmaceutical Consulting is a boutique pharmaceutical and biotechnology consulting firm that provides progressive technical assistance to the healthcare industry. Specialising in bioprocess development and manufacturing, SMART’s mission is to provide efficient, cost-effective compliance solutions and adapt its clients’ margins to high-performance, innovative solutions.

Dr Nigel J. Smart, PhD, President and the visionary behind the firm’s success, also holds leadership coaching and keynote speeches to further propel the biopharma industry into the future through his 30 years of unparalleled knowledge and perspectives on the changing landscape.

The market is now settling into the 2020s, which brought along with it the Covid-19 pandemic and a reevaluation of pharmaceutical supply chains. As the new technological, economic, legal, and policy landscape emerges, venture capitalists are expecting multiples to increase with each coming year. SMART Pharmaceutical has closely been following these trends with their clients, and the framework of growth that Dr Smart recommends is one of magnitude rather than percentage.

“One of the things I’ve wrestled with over the last 20 years is when we finish our presentation, and the client responds with a conservative mindset. You’ve got to throw that out of the window,” Dr Smart says.

Especially as technologies like artificial intelligence enter the fold, Dr Smart understands that it is now a necessity to determine how to extract the optimal performances out of every tool in a leader’s toolkit. “If we stay with tradition, we are never going to get there,” he notes.

Through SMART’s individually tailored consultancy services, clients can be assured that the right approaches find the right solutions to their inefficiencies, and the distinction between performance and high-performance is teased apart.

While every unique case that enters the SMART offices is treated with the deference it's due, there is one universal philosophy that drives much of Dr Smart's ingenuity: to embrace change. “I tell people to get comfortable with being uncomfortable,” he says, “You need the tools, mechanisms, and methodologies to build resilience and handle chaos. Because chaos is going to become the norm.”

Dr Smart is set to launch a new course called Leadership in Life and Business at a Time of Massive Exponential Technological Change, where he will reveal a comprehensive view of the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complex, and Ambiguous) methodology. By harnessing the human brain’s neuroplasticity and natural capacity to engage with its consciousness, leaders and corporations alike can create audacious goals and accomplish them.

While his course is designed to empower pharmaceutical leaders to jump skyward and land on the stars, the industry and issues any one corporation can face are diverse, to say the least, particularly as corporations look to create high performance in a technological environment that is rapidly accelerating. So, SMART plots a direct roadmap for their clients to materialize their initiatives and progress the pharmaceutical industry at their heels.

Using an intuitive rather than methodological approach, the first step for SMART Pharmaceutical Consulting is to discover the central problems its clients struggle with. Dr Smart directs companies to the source of their troubles through pointed lines of questioning. “This part is fun for me, it’s a bit like being an investigative journalist,” he adds.

Then, based on what a client wants to achieve, whether budget cuts, reorganising, or regulatory, Dr Smart's sharp eye is an essential ingredient to increase performance by the orders of magnitude clients strive for. Looking at the situation before him through a different lens allows him to both see the solution clearly and effectively communicate it.

Through his consulting, mentoring, and keynote services, Dr Smart and SMART Pharmaceutical Consulting equips pharmaceutical and biotechnology leaders with everything they need to surpass regulations and compliance and enhance efficiency at all stages of their projects.

Dedicated to streamlining solutions and meeting clients where they need to be, SMART Pharmaceutical Consultancy looks forward to extending its streak of excellence into the ongoing technological revolution. Perpetually looking towards the most optimal path to create high performance, founder Dr Smart continues to incorporate the VUCA ethos in all the services his boutique firm offers, to be condensed into an inspiring leadership course soon.