Business Consulting
about me,
my name is Ursula Teubert
I am an innovation strategist with an mechanical engineering background (MSc) completed with an Executive MBA (INSEAD).
I have successfully advised innovative companies, start-ups, investors, as well as public institutions on turning complex technological and societal challenges into clear, actionable decisions.
I have worked internationally with companies as Peugeot-Citroen, Nissan, Sanden, Altran, Ingersoll Rand, Renault, ABB, Zehnder.
As an Innosuisse expert reviewer I evaluate early R&D investments for Swiss science‑based innovation projects and start-ups.
A faculty member at the Institute for Competitive Intelligence I lecture Future Thinking Skills – Critical & Creative Thinking in times of AI.
My consulting work builds on deep experience in R&D leadership, cross-cultural collaboration and collective intelligence, translating complexity into decision-ready clarity.
With an entrepreneurial mindset, rooted in early leadership roles and a systems perspective inspired by circular thinking, I design pragmatic, human-centered solutions.
clients & areas of work
research & academia
services
Turning ideas, technologies, and partnerships into sustainable business. From market logic to execution-ready growth.
Clarity in complex situations. I help leaders shape innovation strategies that connect ambition, feasibility, and real impact.
Hands-on leadership when it matters. I step in to stabilize, scale, or transform, working with people, not around them.
Bridging research, practice, and decision-making. Supporting knowledge transfer, critical thinking, and innovation with societal relevance.
Develop a novel product category of household heating devices, lead the product innovation project, including design and R&D engineering.
Introduce S&OP for a systematic process control and coordination between sales, operations, and production planning.
Resolve a critical end-of-line quality issue that put a vehicle production line on risk of production interruption.
Develop emotional interaction capacities for an AI & IoT home device based on behavioural and cultural sciences (2015).
Lead a think tank project on open innovation in corporate settings: understand its key challenges and risks (2014).
Develop R&D engineering processes for circular and repairable product design in machinery and household devices.
Assess feasibility of integrating vehicle adaptations for handicapped drivers into standard production lines.
Advance thinking quality in Competitive Intelligence and innovation leveraging the principles of social neurology.
Social Art: develop a handbook of art-based methods for innovation processes and to support social and economic integration of people distant from the labour market across Europe.
