Dream it

My superpower is the ability to spot market trends and patterns in the data, and identify and define web site and app product opportunities.

Build it

I assemble resources, motivate stakeholders, and lead teams that build powerful digital solutions for reducing our impact on the planet.

About teri

What I do

I consult, coach, and teach. Common to all my efforts is my ability to see what’s coming over the horizon, to explain complex ideas, and get the best out of people. I can parachute in at any point in the process above and help you get unstuck.

As a consultant, I build and lead cross-functional teams to design, implement, and launch industry-leading web solutions. Able to see patterns in the data and trends, I identify the white space of opportunity, define the product and business strategy, gather the resources, and motivate stakeholders to execute.

If we are building a product, I weave in my coaching, asking the right questions to unleash talent and energy in individuals and teams and catapult them to the next level of performance.

I teach Master’s of Sustainability Students at Columbia University. My course, Digital Product Development for Sustainability, instructs students on what it means to be a product manager and how to design, implement and launch digital solutions for the sustainable management of resources. Teaching allows me to be at the forefront of research, policy, and market trends and to share my passion for digital product development with the next generation of sustainability leaders.

I live in New York. I love to play tennis, hike, explore galleries and museums, and attend concerts. My latest find: the Bands in Town app, which links to my Spotify playlist and alerts me to nearby performances by my favorite musicians.

make it happen

Through my coaching, consulting, and teaching, I enable others to make transformative products and change.

My background

As a child, I floated on obsidian lakes and climbed steep trails that led to views of the blue vault of sky and sawtooth mountains lining the horizon. I got lost in the imaginary worlds of books and walked around reading and trying not to bump into things. I sang in a chorus and found joy and energy in the ensemble music-making.

I’ve bring my nature awe, imagination, and penchant for ensemble performance to digital product development, delivering for my clients sophisticated web-based solutions that enable users to answer questions and make decisions about the sustainable management of environmental, social and governance resources.

Building on my creativity and zest for assembling information and explaining complex topics, I started my career as an acquisitions editor in cognitive science at MIT Press, where I published leading researchers in artificial intelligence, linguistics, psychology and and philosophy. At Columbia Business School, I discovered an aptitude for strategy — detecting trends, identifying the product vision, and defining how to execute it. As a consultant at Mitchell Madison Group, I refined those skill for clients such as Xerox Corp. and NewsCorp’s TV Guide.

I missed making things, so I returned to industry. My ability to define opportunities, mobilize stakeholders, appreciate technology, and lead high-performance teams brought me to a career in digital product development. I led the global design, implementation and launch of Ovid@Hand, one of the biomedical industry’s first mobile solutions, at Ovid Technologies. As a consultant, I guided talented, harmonious teams for companies such as Advanstar Communications (now part of Informa), the Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Economic Forum, Columbia Business School, and New York Green Bank.

Projects on food security, water security and energy security led me to sustainability and an understanding of the fragility of our planet’s resources. I returned to Columbia University to get my certificate in Sustainability Analytics, with the intention of applying my digital product development expertise to the sustainable management of natural resources. I returned to industry at Sustainable1, S&P Global’s environmental analytics group, where I built out ESG Scores used by investors and companies to identify risks and opportunities related to environmental, social and governance risks.

Having coached individuals and teams, formally and informally, throughout my career and aware that leadership skills are not intuitive, I was certified as an executive coach at Columbia. I now work with leaders and their teams on greening their products and services and taking performance to the next level.

Detecting how engaged I am in the academic setting and recognizing the potential career opportunities that digital product management offers students, one of my professors invited me to teach Master’s of Sustainability Students at Columbia University. My course, Digital Product Development for Sustainability, instructs students on what it means to be a product manager and how to design, implement and launch digital solutions for the sustainable management of resources.