Norbert Teston

Norbert Teston is a quality strategist, creative provocateur, and former global director of standards and compliance for the second-largest sportswear brand in the world. Over a twenty-seven-year career, he's led global product quality initiatives, scaled lab-testing systems across continents, and developed governance frameworks that have shaped product integrity for millions of consumers. Starting on the factory floors of Vietnam, Norbert built from the ground up--establishing testing labs, training manufacturing partners, and eventually leading enterprise-wide transformations in quality and compliance. Throughout his decades-long career, his marker was never far from hand--he was a true whiteboard whisperer translating complexity into clarity through visual thinking and collaborative sketching. This trademark became his signature way of aligning teams, identifying gaps, and reimagining what quality and compliance could be. Today Norbert works as a consultant and coach, helping chief operating officers and product teams to eliminate the risk of product recalls and to design quality systems that are certain, predictable, and sustainable. He's also a passionate costume designer for dancers, drag queens, and wrestlers--proof that precision and flamboyance can coexist beautifully. Happy Little Products is his professional and creative manifesto: a visual, practical guide that challenges the checkbox mentality and reframes quality as a culture, not a task. His mission is clear: to help others scribble their way to clarity and build better, bolder, more intentional products. Preferably in full color.