The Community · For Life Sciences CIOs & IT Leaders
The leaders who understand your world are rare, and rarely in one room. This is that room: a community of Life Sciences CIOs and IT leaders who trade real work, make each other better, and grow their gifts together, because iron sharpens iron.
You carry decisions no one else in your organization fully understands, AI, security, regulatory pressure, board expectations, all at once. In the spirit of the Inklings, this is a circle of peers who bring their real, unfinished challenges to people who get it, and leave with clarity, counsel, and a stronger next move.
A trusted space to ask the questions you can't ask elsewhere, and get answers from leaders who've been there.
Live sessions where members trade what's working, pressure-test decisions, and think out loud together.
See how your priorities, spend, and approach compare, real data from real peers, not vendor spin.
Battle-tested artifacts members share freely, so you're not rebuilding what someone already solved.
A members-only board for roles, projects, and introductions across the life-sciences technology world.
Warm introductions to peers, partners, and talent, the network that makes the next chapter easier.
Try the community with confidence. If it isn't right for you within the first days of membership, just let us know, no questions asked, and we'll make it right. (Exact terms confirmed at checkout.)
"The benchmarking opportunities (e.g. Cyber, AI) have been especially valuable to help me make more informed decisions. The value I've received far exceeds the cost of membership."
"Joe Miller and the community have played a key part in developing my AI strategy. It's like having a backstage pass to the best minds in the field, allowing me to pivot and adapt with confidence!"
"The candid conversations, practical insights, and real-time support from trusted peers have helped me make smarter, faster decisions — especially in high-pressure moments."
"I've leaned on the wisdom of my LI peers for insights into everything from services vendors and emerging technologies to detailed budget and staffing benchmarks and policy norms."
"Joe has done a wonderful job creating this community from the ground up and nurturing it along. It has been a great asset to many of us IT leaders, old and new."
"The ability to quickly tap into trusted peer insights, ask questions and compare solutions has helped me make more confident, informed decisions."
Other groups can be valuable, but two things are usually missing. The first is specificity. Most IT peer groups mix industries, so you rarely find people navigating the exact intersection of technology and regulation that a life-sciences CIO deals with every day. The second is trust. This is a vendor-free zone, with no host mining the room for a consulting engagement and no hidden vendor tie-in. We share challenges, wins, best practices, even reusable assets scrubbed of any company association. We meet monthly to talk through what's on our minds, run special breakouts on topics like AI, and I'm available one-on-one to advise and coach members as needs come up. Your membership also travels with you rather than your employer, so members who move between roles stay in the room, including those working independently as a consultant, advisor, or fractional CIO, along with retired members whose experience adds real depth. For anyone between full-time roles, there are membership levels suited to that stage.
No, it's a vendor-free zone by design. We do host a vendor presentation now and then, but member contact information is never shared, and a vendor takes part only on the understanding that they cannot reach out to any member directly. If they do, they're banned. If a presentation turns out to be useful for your situation, you decide whether to follow up and reach out to them. We want the benefit of vendor knowledge without the pitching.
We'd love to see you in the live sessions, but they're not the whole story. Alongside the monthly meetings there's an online community that runs on your own schedule. You can post a question, ask for a candidate referral for an open role, or trade notes whenever it suits you. The member directory gives you a direct way to reach individual members on specific topics, which is a powerful tool in its own right. There's no requirement beyond engaging, and giving back to the community as your circumstances allow.
All of it, and more. The real value is the deep, trusted peer relationships, and once that trust is there the conversation can go wherever the community finds it useful. We meet monthly for a general session. I bring a few agenda items to get us going, but it stays wide open to whatever is pressing or of interest to members that month. On top of that we run topical breakouts, like the AI breakout going now, and we've done breakouts on security and on preparing for commercialization. Career comes up from time to time too, though those questions are often better handled in a direct one-on-one with me in an advisory capacity, and I do offer coaching engagements for members and their staff as time allows.
This community is built for the person responsible for leading the IT organization. Often that's a CIO by title, sometimes a Senior or Executive Director, but it's always the person who owns the IT function. I've run a separate community in the past for the leadership bench who report to the CIO, though I'm not running one currently. For those individuals I do offer cohort-based group coaching.
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