About
Built on Experience. Focused on What Works.
Cornerstone Clinical Strategies was founded to give clinical development teams access to senior-level expertise — without the overhead of permanent leadership capacity.
With approximately 25 years in clinical research, Gennie Jackson Blank has worked across the full spectrum of global clinical development — from early-phase feasibility through late-stage site activation — in leadership roles spanning pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations.
Her career has been defined by a consistent focus on the problems that are hardest to solve: start-up programs that have stalled, CRO relationships that have drifted from accountability, contracts and budgets that have become entrenched disputes, and organizations that need to build more repeatable ways of working. She brings both the strategic perspective to diagnose what's actually wrong and the operational experience to fix it.
Gennie has held leadership roles across study start-up, site activation, feasibility, contracts and budgets, and cross-functional delivery. She has worked with global pharmaceutical sponsors and CROs of varying scale — from large, matrixed organizations to lean, high-growth teams — and understands how the same challenge can look very different depending on the organizational context.
She founded Cornerstone Clinical Strategies to make that depth of experience available to teams that need focused expertise at a critical moment — without adding permanent headcount or waiting for a long onboarding cycle. Engagements are structured to move quickly, deliver clearly, and leave teams better equipped than when she arrived.
Philosophy
How Gennie Works
Diagnosis before prescription.
Most clinical operations problems are symptoms of something upstream. Gennie's first priority in any engagement is understanding the actual root cause — not the presenting issue — before recommending a path forward.
Strategy that can be executed.
A plan that can't be implemented isn't a plan. Every recommendation Cornerstone makes is grounded in operational reality — what the team can actually do, with the resources they actually have, in the time they actually have.
Clarity over complexity.
Clinical development is already complex. Gennie's role is to reduce that complexity — to translate ambiguous situations into clear decisions, and clear decisions into executable plans.
Durable change, not dependency.
The goal of every engagement is to leave the team stronger. That means building frameworks, decision rights, and ways of working that persist after the engagement ends — not creating reliance on an outside advisor.
Ready to work with someone who has seen this before?
Most engagements begin with a focused conversation. Let's talk about where your team is and what's getting in the way.
Cornerstone Clinical Strategies
Senior perspective. Hands-on problem solving.