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Gill Tanner

Senior HR Professional | Coach and Behavioural Change Expert | Pragmatic People Solutions


Gill Tanner

HR Director

Gill is a senior human resource professional with over 20 years of experience in a variety of sectors. She has a proven track record in positioning HR as a partner to business and has a unique blend of commercialism, pragmatism, and creativity. She is known for transformative leadership focused on people strategies and solutions and is committed to developing best-in-class talent pipelines and development programs.

Over the course of her career, she has built a broad skill set including HR strategy planning, people management, organizational development, learning and development, stakeholder and employee engagement, talent management, change management, budget management, and cost optimization. In addition, she has a strong academic background including a MA in Managing Human Resources and MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change and is fully committed to continuing professional development.

Gill has worked as HR Director for Actelion Pharmaceuticals, and Head of HR for Scholl Retail, and has operated as a tutor with BPP delivering the whole range of CIPD courses. In addition, she has been an HR consultant working on interim assignments and led the HR function at Del Monte in the UK.

Gill Tanner

We work with more than 200 leading Life Sciences companies including:

Working with Life Science Access Academy, our company love the variety of the many courses that are on offer. The hour long courses on specific subjects are really useful on Friday lunchtimes for our field teams and gain a lot of interest.

Life Science Access Academy are also super flexible and helpful when it comes to tailoring some additional sessions to our needs.

Marsha Gray, Training Specialist

Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd

Frontier Medical has fully implemented, Life Science Access Academy allowing Sales and Marketing to utilise the system. Maximising on line learning for all remote staff stimulates a culture of self-development giving individuals the accountability and responsibility to broaden their skills set.

Life Science Access Academy training is topical and a good fit for the faced paced healthcare market.

Simon Warden - National Sales Manager

Frontier Medical Group

I have found the training via the Life Science Access Academy to be excellent and I know many of my colleagues have as well.

The content is always kept up to date and there is huge and interesting variety of topics covered. The site is curated in a way that makes it clear and easy to navigate. Also, the staff at Life Science access Academy are friendly and responsive and all the experts are always knowledgeable in their areas.

Richard Edmonds

Gedeon Richter Women's Health

The variety and relevancy of content brings value to many different roles across the healthcare industry.

I have also been overwhelmed by the way the Life Science Access Academy team have accommodated our own business needs, being sensitive yet responsive to helping us since its formation.

Robb Sayers, UK Capability Lead

ViiV Healthcare