This is the one of the reasons we play an active role in the CREW Global Life Science Council. Our work in the life science sector relies on a deep understanding of how people, places and operations are evolving, and on the ability to respond with precision when change accelerates. The Council brings together senior leaders across the life science ecosystem who share real time insight that reflects what organisations are experiencing today. This collective intelligence offers a clearer view of emerging pressures, opportunities and operational realities that shape the sector. This context strengthens the relevance of our involvement and reinforces why we look beyond general market commentary.
The Council helps the sector make sense of a fast-moving environment, whether that involves shifts in lab and workplace space, pressure around funding or timelines, or insights into how research and operational teams can function more effectively.
Being part of this community is invaluable. The insights we gain from the Council directly sharpen MovePlan’s strategic counsel, allowing us to guide clients with confidence based on real-time trends and sector realities. This understanding helps us support clients through transitions that affect their people, spaces, and ways of working, ensuring our advice is both timely and practical.
The insight we gain is actively used to shape the advice and support we provide our clients every day. Listening to sector peers uncovers emerging patterns that inform our guidance. These trends include the need to reimagine spaces to support evolving research practices, new expectations from teams, and operational challenges that are becoming increasingly common. By gathering this insight, we help clients anticipate challenges rather than simply react to them, ensuring change programmes are grounded in what organisations are actually facing today, not what might have been true six or twelve months ago. For example, one recent insight on laboratory space usage prompted a client to adjust their relocation plan, improving workflow and team collaboration. With all our work, where people are placed at the heart of planning, we look at every insight through the lens of how it will affect teams, the communication used and people’s readiness for change.
While we gain a great deal from the Council, we also contribute actively. We bring a people-centered perspective that is unique, highlighting how changes in operations, workplace design, or processes may impact scientists and research teams and identifying ways to make transitions smoother and more effective. This perspective shapes decisions to prioritize the human experience, helping teams adapt successfully and strengthening overall outcomes.
Being part of the Council gives us a clearer, more complete picture of the sector. It helps us understand how organisations across the world are approaching similar challenges and what’s helping them move forward with confidence. These insights translate into clear, actionable advantages for our clients:
Taken together, these benefits enable clients to make more informed decisions and strengthen organizational performance across people, processes, and spaces.
MovePlan’s involvement in the life science ecosystem represents a long-term investment in the sector’s growth and resilience. Participation in CREW’s Global Life Science Council ensures clients benefit from collective knowledge, gaining access to the latest thinking, early signals of change, and guidance shaped by a community of experts who understand the realities of the life science world.
Uncertainty is something many organisations are learning to navigate. Through this role in the Council, we help clients move through it with clarity, confidence, and a focus on people, who are always at the heart of every change programme. This ongoing partnership reinforces MovePlan’s position as a trusted advisor, leveraging sector insight and a people-centered approach to guide clients through change with confidence.
