Discover how your company creates, loses, and overlooks value.
Two substantive executive conversations, independent research, and a confidential briefing examining your enterprise through our original theory.
Your company has no single brain.
Your enterprise thinks through its people, technology, information, processes, incentives, and decisions.
Even highly intelligent parts sometimes produce an unintelligent whole.
Our Theory of Enterprise Coherence examines how those parts combine, how intelligently the enterprise navigates reality, and where greater coherence could create substantial economic value.
What you'll gain
Learn from other accomplished leaders.
Comparative research intelligence and two executive roundtables exploring exceptional achievements, expensive failures, and emerging possibilities.
Help shape something consequential.
Influence original research, contribute your experience and judgment, and develop valuable connections with executives, experts, and potential collaborators.
An original inquiry shaped by real enterprises.
We bring our Theory of Enterprise Coherence and a substantial research agenda. You bring your experience, ambitions, and the realities of your enterprise.
Together with evidence and discoveries from across the cohort, those ingredients shape the investigation. Your most important discoveries may concern something you already recognize, or a possibility you haven't yet imagined.
Participation
For senior life sciences executives. Participation is selective, carries no fee, and creates no obligation to purchase services.
Companies approve any public use or attribution of their information.
The thinking behind the initiative
BioUtah's Utah Life Sciences Summit
November 11, 2026 · Salt Lake City
Companies Are Dumber Than Their People and AI Isn't the Answer
Jacob Andra, Founder and CEO, Talbot West
The presentation explored how Talbot West's Theory of Enterprise Coherence illuminates the successes, failures, and unrealized possibilities of life sciences enterprises.
Part of America's industrial resurgence
LSEI is an initiative of Talbot West and the American Industrial Capability Project, an effort to strengthen America's ability to build extraordinary things.