Guide Star Pharma
President
Dr. Shanna McGovern has an EdD in Organizational Change Leadership, 28 years of experience accross the pharmaceutical pipeline, from Drug & Process Development to Quality Control & Quality Assurance, and literally "wrote the book" on designing GxP computer system organizational change. Her knowledge is deep through participation in 1000+ validations: test method, process, cleaning, instrument, equipment, local computer system, and large global enterprise computer system validations with data migration. Shanna McGovern's professional philosophy revolves around the belief that embedding quality into the process and maintaining a quality mindset are pivotal for process efficiency and business continuity. Her lean process and organizational change management strategies have been instrumental in driving global organizational change. Shanna holds a BA in Chemistry from Pt. Loma Nazarene University and MS in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and an Organizational Change Leadership EdD at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation research investigated the organizational operational space between M&A, IT, and Quality for compliant and efficient post-acquisition operations.