My Passion - Product Development

My passion is developing new products and I led the architecture and the development of 60+ products. I enjoy my role as a judge for startups enrolled in MedTech Innovator, and I have coached more than a dozen other startups as well, in medical product development.

My Key Challenge - The Scavenger Hunt

A key problem I faced was that we were wasting too much time locating information throughout the development process. Whether it was looking for notes about changes and issues or about finding marketing materials, dataroom materials for investors or even user-guides, it was always a huge time-wasting experience and a repeated scavenger-hunt.

My Solution

I solved this problem by building a Wiki that serves as our internal "Wikipedia" for each program. This uses off-the-shelf free platforms and provides a seamless link between your team and all of your existing data sources. It requires no programming skills and can be set up in one day and launched to be useful to your team within one week.

As a result, my teams operate smoothly without the chaos that results from the typical scavenger hunt environment of the workplace.

My Courses

I have built several courses to help founders organize their teams for success, and in less than one week, your teams will be comfortable finding their way and using your Wiki.

Once the scavenger-hunt is over, you may want to explore Agile program management mothods to improve efficiency and increase customer satisfaction.

As a certified ScrumMaster, I teach practical Agile program management methods for medical product development to teams ranging in size from from small to very large.

While the Agile process rarely shrinks the timelines for projects, it yields much better results by building in many more customer touch-points throughout the iterative development process. This reduces stress, improves visibility and keeps both your team and your customers much happier.

Please visit my Coaching and Products page for more information.

Founders Coaching

As a coach and Judge for MedTech Innovator, I review the decks and planning documents for 8 - 10 startups weekly. I can help a startup get their deck aligned to be investor-friendly, but in many cases, work with founders to perfect their MVP or to help identify a missing element that improves market appeal.

I also regularly coach several startups during each MedTech Innovator session and I have coached many of the startups whose products I have developed over 20+ years.

My InnoGuide Podcast

I also host the InnoGuidePodcast to share the works of Authors and Mentors to guide Innovation.