Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

Teresa Jurgens-Kowal is passionate about innovation. She is a writer, speaker, coach, and trainer. Teresa founded Global NP Solutions in 2009 to help individuals and organizations learn, adopt, transform, and sustain innovation. She enjoys helping people reach their highest levels of success with innovation. Teresa’s consulting clients include a full spectrum of large industry corporations to entrepreneurs seeking to launch new products and to improve innovation system effectiveness. She frequently presents keynotes and breakouts locally and nationally on her favorite topics of innovation, design thinking, and product development.

Teresa is the co-editor of the PDMA Body of Knowledge (2020) and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), Certified Professional Engineering Manager (CPEM), and New Product Development Professional (NPDP). In 2021, she released The Innovation ANSWER Book 2nd edition, a comprehensive guide to building innovation leadership. The companion The Innovation QUESTION Book was published in 2022 and will soon be available in Spanish. Teresa has also published chapters on innovation with the Virtual Team Model (2018), Leveraging Constraints for Innovation and on Quality Management Systems in the Engineering Management Handbook (2022), among other publications.

Prior to founding Global NP Solutions, Teresa worked in process development and as an internal innovation expert at ExxonMobil Chemical Company. She has degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington (PhD) and University of Idaho (BS), and an MBA from West Texas A&M University. Teresa lives in Southeast Texas and enjoys bicycling and scrapbooking in her leisure time.

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6/6 in the series Career Options for Chemical Engineers

Marketing and Sales Careers for ChEs

Jan 17, 2023 . by Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

While not commonly associated with sales and marketing, chemical engineers' training actually provides important and useful skills for marketing and sales careers.

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Careers in Product Development for Chemical Engineers

Dec 13, 2022 . by Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

Chemical engineers are a good fit for product development careers because they are analytical thinkers and problem solvers. But learn what else chemical engineers need to work in product development.

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Careers in Quality Management for Chemical Engineers

Nov 22, 2022 . by Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

Chemical engineers’ ability to work with fine detail makes them a good fit for quality management careers, whether in quality assurance or quality control. Learn more about these career opportunities.

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ChemE Careers in Project Management

Oct 20, 2022 . by Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

Project management is an important skill many chemical engineers need and use in their work, and it generally comes with opportunities to work on other skills such as communication, leadership, and coordination.

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Careers in Chemical Engineering Research and Development

Sep 23, 2022 . by Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

Chemical engineers work in a range of R&D jobs spanning from positions with established corporations, in universities, and at startups, and each of these work environments comes with certain expectations and demands.