Your Instructor
Jared Clark is a practicing GMP consultant — JD, MBA, PMP, CMQ-OE, CQA, CPGP, RAC — who turned 200+ client engagements into a training practice. Every course at GMP Training Institute is built and taught by the same person who implements GMP systems, hosts inspections, and remediates 483 observations for real manufacturers.
Most GMP instructors come from one of two backgrounds: academia or a training company. Jared Clark comes from a third — active consulting practice. As Principal Consultant at Certify Consulting, he spends his working weeks inside regulated manufacturing facilities: building quality systems, auditing suppliers, preparing companies for FDA inspections, and fixing the findings when inspections go badly. GMP Training Institute exists because those engagements kept surfacing the same root cause — people who had "completed GMP training" but had never been taught what the regulation actually demands of their specific job.
That pattern shaped a simple conviction: GMP training should be built by someone who lives with the consequences of bad training. When an FDA investigator pulls a batch record and finds an uninvestigated deviation, the gap almost always traces back to something a training program glossed over. Jared has sat on the company side of that table many times. His courses are reverse-engineered from those moments — the questions investigators ask, the records they request, the failure modes that turn a routine inspection into a Form 483.
The result is training with an unusual center of gravity. Institutional courses teach the regulation as written; Jared teaches the regulation as inspected. Line operators learn why a missing initial on a batch record matters to the person who will review it. Quality teams learn how "adequate training" is judged in practice, not just how 21 CFR 211.25 phrases it. Leadership learns what training records need to show before an investigator ever asks. The examples are drawn from real audits and real remediations — anonymized, but never hypothetical.
Jared's practice spans all four GMP-regulated product categories: pharmaceuticals under 21 CFR 210/211, dietary supplements under Part 111, cosmetics under MoCRA-era expectations and ISO 22716, and food under Part 117. That breadth is rare in a single instructor, and it matters for mixed-portfolio manufacturers and contract facilities: one instructor, one coherent quality vocabulary, across every product line you run. Explore the pharmaceutical GMP program, the dietary supplement program, or the full cGMP course catalog.
Letters after a name are only useful if they change what happens in the classroom. Here is what each credential contributes.
ASQ
The credential most directly relevant to this site. CPGP certifies current, examined knowledge of pharmaceutical GMP regulations and their application — the exact subject matter of the courses. Very few GMP training providers put a named CPGP holder in front of the room.
ASQ
Auditor training means your instructor thinks the way an auditor thinks. Course modules teach documentation and behavior from the perspective of the person who will one day examine them — which is precisely the perspective your team needs to internalize.
ASQ
GMP failures are usually system failures, not individual failures. The CMQ-OE brings quality-management-system thinking into the training room, so courses connect each person's tasks to the quality system they operate inside — the connection most training never makes.
RAPS
The RAC covers how regulations are made, interpreted, and enforced. In training, that becomes regulatory context: trainees learn not just what the rule says, but why it exists and how FDA applies it — the "why" that makes procedures stick.
Law
GMP regulations are law, and legal training changes how you read them. Jared parses 21 CFR the way a lawyer does — what is required versus recommended, where enforcement discretion lives — so your team learns the regulation's actual obligations, not folklore about them.
Business · PMI
Compliance decisions are business decisions. The MBA keeps training grounded in operational reality — cost, throughput, staffing — while the PMP shows up in how programs are delivered: scoped, scheduled, and documented like the projects they are.
Jared also holds professional certificates in Computer Software Assurance (CSA), Pharma Validation Management (PVM), and Computer System Validation (CSV) — directly relevant when training covers validation and data integrity topics.
Every training module at GMP Training Institute is built from lessons learned across 200+ consulting engagements. That is not a marketing line; it is the production process. A supplier audit surfaces a recurring documentation failure — it becomes a module exercise. An FDA inspection turns on a training-records question — it becomes a lesson on what those records must show. A remediation project reveals why a procedure kept being ignored — it becomes a case study in writing training people can actually follow.
This consulting-to-classroom pipeline is what separates practitioner-led training from institutional courses. An institution updates its curriculum on a review cycle. A practitioner updates it every time an engagement teaches him something new. When your team asks "but what happens if…", they get an answer from someone who has watched it happen.
It also means training doesn't have to end at the classroom door. When a session surfaces a genuine systems problem — a validation gap, a CAPA program that exists on paper only — the same instructor can help you fix it through the consulting practice, or you can take the finding and run with it yourself. Either way, you hear about it honestly.
Jared Clark is the founder of Certify Consulting, a full-service certification consulting firm serving manufacturers, healthcare companies, technology firms, and food producers across the United States. With credentials including JD, MBA, PMP, CMQ-OE, CQA, CPGP, and RAC, Jared brings a unique combination of legal, business, and technical expertise to every engagement. GMP Training Institute is the educational arm of the Certify Consulting network, providing practitioner-led GMP training for regulated industries.
Programs today are delivered in three formats: on-site workshops at your facility, live virtual instructor-led sessions for distributed teams, and custom programs — annual training plans, refresher curricula, and role-based tracks designed around your quality system and audit history. Sessions are interactive by design: real records, real scenarios, real questions, and an instructor who has earned the right to answer them. Live virtual delivery carries the same curriculum and the same documentation package as on-site work — see the online training page for details.
Every session produces the documentation an FDA investigator will eventually ask to see: attendance records, content summaries, and assessment evidence, matched to each role's regulatory training requirement. Pricing is scoped to your program — industry, team size, format, and depth — so you get a concrete quote rather than a rate-card surprise. Tell us about your team to get started.
One naming note: if you have come across "The GMP Consultant" elsewhere, that is the consulting-focused practice for GMP system implementation and remediation. GMP Training Institute is the training side of the same expertise — this site is where you come to educate your people, not to outsource your quality system.
Every program is taught by Jared Clark — JD, MBA, PMP, CMQ-OE, CQA, CPGP, RAC — the Principal Consultant at Certify Consulting. There is no bench of adjunct trainers reading from someone else's slides: the person who built the material from real consulting engagements is the person in front of your team.
CPGP is ASQ's Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional — a certification that tests deep, current knowledge of pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice regulations and their application. It is the credential most directly relevant to GMP training, and it is uncommon among training providers: most institutional courses are not taught by a named, CPGP-certified instructor.
Both — and that is the point. Jared is an active GMP consultant with 200+ client engagements through Certify Consulting. Training is built from that ongoing practice, so course examples reflect what FDA investigators are citing now, not what a textbook covered years ago.
Yes. Programs cover pharmaceutical GMP (21 CFR 210/211), dietary supplements (21 CFR Part 111), cosmetics (MoCRA-era expectations and ISO 22716), and food (21 CFR Part 117). His CQA and CMQ-OE credentials cover audit and quality-system practice across regulated industries, and his consulting work spans all four sectors.
Use the Request Training page to describe your industry, team size, and timeline, or call 858-240-4353. Every program is scoped to your operations — on-site workshops at your facility, live virtual instructor-led sessions, or a custom annual training program — and you receive a concrete quote before anything is scheduled.
Tell us your industry, team size, and compliance deadline. Jared will design a GMP training program around your operations — and document every minute of it.