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Mark Davies

Senior Consultant at Thinking Focus


Mark Davies

Mark is a versatile facilitator, trainer and coach with 20 years of commercial experience within pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Mark’s ability to collaborate and creative attention to detail contributed heavily to his success and transition into people development in 2007, following eleven years of front-line sales and account management. Mentoring responsibilities quickly grew into a passion for supporting others to realise their potential as a sales coach, training and development manager, and sales manager.

CIPD Qualified in Learning and Development Management since 2015, Mark has continued to work with sales and sales leadership teams, redefining sales processes by challenging assumptions and establishing a culture of ownership through bespoke training and development programmes.

Mark’s work within organisations defines clear outcomes and blends face-to-face and online training with group/one-to-one coaching at the director level. Clients regularly report behavioural change which serves to transform the performance of teams, and individuals, and accelerates individuals’ careers through a willingness to embrace change.

As part of Thinking Focus, Mark works with teams and business units in organisations around the world, helping them achieve breakthroughs by enabling them to think differently. His clients range from medium-sized enterprises to divisions of blue-chip multi-nationals.

Mark Davies

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