John Teubert has 35+ years of experience understanding opportunities and collaborating with others to develop new products and solve diverse problems across multiple industries and markets.

John is a curious and studied thinker who can take disparate and unrelated challenges and opportunities and make sense of them in multiple ways. His approach is always consistent from a rigor perspective while understanding audience needs for collaboration and consensus building. John’s history of cross-cultural leadership enables him to assimilate the insights from diverse experts to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and challenges.

John’s experience ranges from cost sensitive consumer goods to alloy development for mission critical components. Across this spectrum one thing is consistent: prioritizing an understanding of what problem is being solved (and performance criteria) must be established at the outset of the development effort. Experience has shown this to be one of the biggest challenges in R&D regardless of the product or industry.

John’s strength is being able to objectively help teams understand the critical aspects of their problems / new product needs and quantifying decision criteria to accept potential solutions. Also, because of this tuned objectivity, John can help teams pivot away from the “favorite” solution when it does not meet the necessary criteria to make the new product different from competition or successful in the marketplace. Often, solutions entail connecting with the right partners to leverage technologies in new ways and create optimal solutions. This experience and network create insights & perspective that enhances the strategic guidance John can provide.

John is a strategist, coach, and connector who is passionate about helping companies improve their products and processes.