John Soter has over 25 years experience as a consultant and draws on best practices gleaned from assisting clients in diverse industries including engineering, creative, and complex project driven environments, as well as electric and gas utilities (generation, exploration/exploitation, transmission, and distribution), transportation and logistics, life sciences, and hospitality. He has conducted hundreds of engagements with clients at both Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies where innovation, flexibility, focus, and competitive advantage dominate the contribution to success. John has expertise in strategic, tactical, and business planning; business, management, and systems audits; knowledge worker productivity improvement; process capability improvement, error proofing, and complexity reduction; organizational transformation and change management; and operational effectiveness improvement.

John’s skills include leadership and management development; rapid prototyping, concurrent design, and integrated project delivery management; business standardization; business system implementation; competency development and management; post merger integration; business development and top line enrichment; delivery quality and client satisfaction improvement; and profitability enhancement.

To support sustainability of operational improvements, he has helped clients by facilitating consensus on strategy and direction, developing and translating goals to align the organization, designing and implementing measurement and management processes and systems, and training executives and managers in strategic, leadership, and managerial skills.

John’s abilities to focus and leverage client resources, while generating rapid and sustainable improvements, have resulted in measurable value added and bottom line gains, reduced risk/regulatory exposure, and optimized processes and structures. Prior to joining ZweigWhite, John worked as managing director, overseeing and delivering consulting projects in North America and Europe with Navigant Consulting, Brooks International, and Decision Management International for clients including AMEC, Emerson, and Lockheed Martin.

John received a BA from Tufts University in Massachusetts.