Your Partner for Purposeful Innovation
Harnessing the power of Consumer Centricity
Your Partner for Purposeful Innovation
Harnessing the power of Consumer Centricity
Harnessing the power of Consumer Centricity
Harnessing the power of Consumer Centricity
With a foundation in food science and a specialization in sensory science, I bring nearly three decades of expertise in consumer research, insights, and front-end innovation. My career has spanned both R&D and marketing, including 20 years in leadership roles at Unilever, L'Oréal, and Mondelēz, followed by over 7 years at two boutique strategy and innovation agencies. This journey ultimately led me to establish jgl3 Consulting in July 2024.
I am deeply passionate about engaging consumers early and often—discovering innovative ways to listen, interpret, and act on both what they express and what remains unsaid. My approach blends scientific rigor with strategic creativity, ensuring that consumer-driven insights translate into meaningful business impact.
With an abundance of insights available, the key lies in leveraging different lenses to identify, decode, and interpret what truly matters to consumers. Today’s consumers no longer adhere to rigid category boundaries; instead, they blur the lines, redefining how they perceive and engage with products. To stay ahead, we must think beyond traditional frameworks—embracing adjacent categories and external forces that shape their decisions and behaviors.
While marketing and brand teams drive initial purchases through compelling design and storytelling, R&D secures repeat purchases by meeting or exceeding expectations with impactful sensory experiences. As a researcher, my role is to decode these signals—uncovering the essential sensory ‘building blocks’ that best convey the functional and emotional benefits consumers value most. By striking the right balance—ensuring innovation is purposeful without over-designing—I help create products and experiences that resonate deeply and endure in the market.
Whether you're seeking incremental, stretch, or transformative innovation—or it's simply time for renovation—fostering an internal culture that embraces a consumer-centric lens is key to breaking out of the 'sea of sameness' plaguing many categories today.
By understanding the attributes and sensory guardrails that matter most—and why they resonate with consumers—you can sharpen the R&D brief for prototyping and refine marketing language for concept storytelling, ensuring that elusive concept-product fit is achieved the first time and avoid wasting resource.
Identifying the must-have product and packaging attributes that give a product a reason to exist—both on the shelf and in the consumer's mind.
Discovering the product attributes and elements that elevate the experience—helping you stand out against core competitors—is key. Focus on what drives superiority, not just parity.
Identifying—and more importantly, justifying—the elements that go beyond overall liking to establish category leadership by delivering an emotional payoff, not just meeting functional needs.
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