Business Consulting
about me,
my name is Ursula Teubert
I am a tri-lingual (DE, EN, FR) independent consultant and innovation strategist with an mechanical engineering background (MSc) and an Executive MBA (INSEAD). For over 25 years, I have advised companies, start-ups, investors, and public institutions on turning complex technological and societal challenges into clear, actionable decisions. I have worked internationally and consulted with companies as Peugeot-Citroen, Nissan, Sanden, Altran, Ingersoll Rand, Renault, ABB, Zehnder.
I serve as an Innosuisse expert reviewer, the Swiss national agency for supporting science‑based start-ups and innovation projects, lecture on critical and creative thinking at the Institute for Competitive Intelligence and other academic settings, and apply collective intelligence methods to sustainable innovation and competitive insight. My consulting work builds on deep experience in R&D leadership, cross-cultural collaboration, and translating complexity into decision-ready clarity.
My entrepreneurial mindset is rooted in early leadership roles and a systems perspective inspired by permaculture and circular thinking, shaping how I design pragmatic, human-centered solutions.
On a personal level, I am the mother of a wonderful teenager and in my free time, I enjoy playing and listening to classical music, spending time in nature, and pursuing my passion for horseback riding.
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.
